Identify/Mark Keyterms in the Text?

Question

Is it possible to identify the keyterms in the bible text (with a *, or something else)?

Answer 1

In an Enhanced Resource (ER), choose an open project from the dropdown to the right of the ER toolbar. Then select Found from the toolbar to see all terms from your project with known renderings highlighted in grey in the ER. Or click Problem in the toolbar to see words in the ER highlighted in orange - these are terms that are not yet rendered in your project or are unconfirmed guesses in your project. These buttons in an ER turn on or off corresponding highlighting in whatever project is selected in the dropdown.

If you don’t have an ER open, you can see key terms which have been rendered/identified in a project by selecting Highlight biblical term renderings from the View menu. Guessed terms can be highlighted in orange if you have used the Guess renderings from the Tools menu within the Biblical Terms tool. Otherwise turning on that highlighting will show no highlights in a project.

In a regular resource, it’s not currently possible to highlight Biblical terms.

Comments

How can you identify proper names?

Answer 2

Thank you, I should have been more specific.

They want to mark them in the output (i.e. printed book) like we do with footnotes and xrefs callers.

When they print their bible they want callers to flag keyterms.

Comments

Yes, jeffh Shrum has made a video on adding markup using the Biblical Terms tool. You can find the video in this group of videos on Glossary

Paratext

Glossary - Paratext Bible Translation Software

Learn how to create and maintain a Glossary in Paratext Bible Translation Software

Note that if you go to All Paratext Training Videos you can find a lot of training videos for Paratext 9 and Paratext 8 in English and other languages.

Answer 3

In Paratext, the best way to identify key terms is with \k … \k* unless you are using the Biblical Terms tool which will automatically do it with \w … \w* (automatic means your control over where it appears is defined by rules so be careful to read and follow the instructions). Other responders have sent you videos for this.

Then, in your output from Paratext, you can define how you want the key term to be marked in your final product. A marker like * is certainly possible, but more often now we use italics or bolding because we are able then to mark complete phrases.

Comments

Hi Shegnada

Is there a way to identify and mark up names?

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The Biblical Terms Tool has a filter for proper names which will help you find them. For marking them up differently then with \w … \w* or \k … \k*, you can use \nd … \nd* for name of God or \pn … \pn* for proper name.

Blessings,

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You can mark up proper names with the \pn …\pn* markers. You can find names using the Major Biblical Terms list filtered on names. There is no easy way to globally mark these (that I’m aware of). If you haven not yet created a glossary then you could use the same process of marking glossary entries and then change the \w …\w* to \pn …\pn*, but this would be a lot of work. And you would likely make a mess of the glossary (thus you would want to do this before adding a glossary).

Maybe someone else has a better suggestion.

Answer 4

Just in case it wasn’t obvious, it is the final video in the Glossary group, “Adding Markup to multiple words with glossary entries as a batch process”, that has the information that you need. That tells you how to insert the glossary word markup in your text: \w text|glossary_entry \w*.

The video only talks about using this markup to define links in Scripture apps, but I just want to point out that Scripture typesetting tools (like PTXprint) are also able to turn that markup into an asterisk before the glossary word (or a number of other types of markup) for the PDF file and printed output.

Just a couple of other comments on this process. 1) In general you want to do the linking of the glossary entries as the very last step before printing. If you make other changes to the text after the linking, it’s possible that not everything will get marked as you wanted. If you have some linking from the past, but have since made changes to the text, it probably would be best to “Unlink all renderings from the glossary…” (in that same Biblical Terms window menu), and do the linking again from scratch. 2) For marking glossary entries in a printed text, you probably don’t want to mark All Occurrences as shown in the video. It’s probably more reasonable to mark every occurrence in an app (the word would just be changed into a link), but in printed forms, you probably don’t want every occurrence to be marked if there are, for example, several occurrences in a verse or two. In most typesetting I’ve done recently they chose to mark “First occurrence in every section”, but chapter or paragraph are also options.