Paragraphs in Bible Modules

Question

Is it possible to force Bible Modules to deal with paragraphing based on what the user wants instead of what Paratext does automatically?

For example:
Suppose that Matt 1:1-17 is a single paragraph
And within a Bible Module you type:

\ref MAT 1:1 \ref MAT 1:2 \ref MAT 1:4

What I would expect to see is a single paragraph with no indent at all, and possible an error saying that there should a \p marker. Instead what I see (in Standard Output) is

\p The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. \p Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers. \p Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.

Paratext is assigning \p markers to each new reference. Is there a way to override that? I'm helping someone create a gospel harmonization and he wants to bring verses from different books, but make them part of a single paragraph.

Thanks,
mnjames

Answer 1

As a work around to the fact that the Standard Output of a Module is not
editable you could simply copy the output to a new project xxa file and
then edit the markers as needed. This would be a last step for publication
and is only a work around.

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Comments

mnjames:

Is there a way to override that?

Yes, you can use \refnp instead of \ref to have it get the reference text without the paragraph marker.

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Thanks for the workaround. That was a good idea and I’m embarrassed I didn’t think of it myself

I submitted a feature request to [Email Removed] over a week ago and never got an acknowledgement that it had been received. The same thing happened a month ago when I submitted another request for a Bible Module problem I ran into. I just looked on fogbugz and I do not see the text of my message, which I can see in previous feature requests. Does anyone know if the feature request system is working correctly?

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mnjames:

Does anyone know if the feature request system is working correctly?

Yes, we are getting your requests. We just can’t respond to them all and we also have to prioritize them with everything else we have to work on.

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anon291708:

Yes, you can use \refnp instead of \ref to have it get the reference text without the paragraph marker.

Thank you! That’s exactly the sort of solution I was looking for. You can close my feature request (and thank you for replying that you are getting them).

I even now see that in the help file now that I search for ‘refnp’. I hadn’t seen that before.

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Another way that has worked for me is to keep the references on the same line.

So in your example above you would write:

\ref MAT 1:1-2,4

and the result should be the three verses in the one paragraph, with just a paragraph marker at the beginning. It seems that each time you write \ref it starts a new paragraph.

I haven’t tried it using it with different books or chapter numbers on the same line.