Best practice for omitting whole chapters and partial chapters

Question

We are publishing a “Genesis portions” at this stage, but it’s about 80% of Genesis, so it doesn’t make sense to use a module. We have two cases: (1) omission of entire chapters; (2) omission of partial chapters.

I understand that we can use custom.vrs to specify what’s omitted, but what do we do in the project text itself for the two cases? When a chapter is omitted, do we literally omit everything, including \c for that chapter? Is it best to use \iex in the gap to tell readers what’s happened? And for partial chapters, do we do the same, but simply omit \v’s?

Thanks.

Answer 1

viverechristus:

It appears that PT9 doesn’t allow the \c to be deleted, though all the \v’s can be.

To delete a chapter, you need to view the book fully (i.e. turn off View > By chapter).

viverechristus:

Also, am I correct that custom.vrs doesn’t allow the omission of either a range of verses or an entire chapter with a single line?

Yes, that is correct. It wasn’t designed for this use-case.

Comments

anon291708:

To delete a chapter, you need to view the book fully (i.e. turn off View > By chapter).

Note that when you return to view by chapter you will still see the chapter number (Paratext seems to show it there even if it doesn’t exist in the underlying file)
Also, in the custom.vrs file you can enter EXO 34:0 to show that there are no verses in chapter 34 (if you have removed all of chapter 34).

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anon291708:

To delete a chapter, you need to view the book fully (i.e. turn off View > By chapter).

Glad to know that.

anon848905:

Also, in the custom.vrs file you can enter EXO 34:0 to show that there are no verses in chapter 34 (if you have removed all of chapter 34).

Fantastic. That’s a big help.

Thanks, both, for the quick and helpful replies!

Answer 2

Yes, simply omitting the empty portions (\c or \v) along with their markers is the option that causes the least grief in the publishing path for publishing portions. And explaining to the readers what happened with \iex or at least a footnote is a good practice, as well.

Comments

It appears that PT9 doesn’t allow the \c to be deleted, though all the \v’s can be. So for Gen 36 (which is not part of this publication cycle), we’re left with the following, and nothing else (\c 37 comes next):

\c 36
\iex មើយហ៍ កាគ បគ ព្រែ អុះ 36:1-43។ [=“we haven’t yet translated 36:1-43.”]

Am I correct that it’s impossible to entirely omit the chapter?

Also, am I correct that custom.vrs doesn’t allow the omission of either a range of verses or an entire chapter with a single line? I got errors with both of these attempts (tried separately, of course, not at the same time):

-GEN 36
-GEN 36:1-43

At present, our custom.vrs has a separate line for every omitted verse, which is a lot, since we’re omitting about 20% of Gen this go-round.

Thanks.

Answer 3

For such purposes, I use an auxiliary project, which inherits the registration of the parent project. Having created the auxiliary project, copy the text of Genesis across, then delete whatever you don’t want to publish, and publish from the auxiliary project.