I’m having a problem with quotation rules where when there is an OT quote embedded in someone’s speech. The following is taken from Luke 7:24-27 (back translated into English). In v24 Jesus begins speaking and then in v27 quotes Malachi 3:1. There is a footnote and a cross reference in the \q2 line but neither of these contain a quote marker.
\p \v 24 ... \add He said,\add* “Why did you go .... \v27 God spoke like this about John in the Holy Book,
\b
\q1 ‘Look, I command My messenger to go before You.
\q2 He will prepare Your way before You.’*”
\b
\p \v 28 \add Jesus said,\add* “....
This use of quotation markers is also employed by some of national translations in our area, but Paratext doth complain most grievously giving the following errors:
I purloined the Quotation Rules from one of the aforementioned translations, but my thievery produced no better results.
It seems like Paratext (under my present configuration) has no love for the ' that begins the \q1 line and also doesn’t consider the " at the end of the \q2 line to be the close marker for the whole quote which began in v24.
If I position the single open quote before the \b marker (i.e. ... Holy Book, '), then Paratext is satisfied. Furthermore, adding a " to the beginning of the \q1 solves the problem. However, neither of those are viable solutions given the desired layout. I further attempted to persuade Paratext to accept the desired layout by setting the Quote Continuer at new paragraph to *none* but, alas, this was also rejected
Here are our present Quotation Rules. Any ideas how to cajole Paratext to accept the desired layout?
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Thanks a lot
Note: I realize this question is quote similar to Quotes within Quotes error - Questions - Paratext Supporter Site, but after trying to implement that I still couldn’t get things to work.
