Obligatory article before names in glossary

Question

In the language we’re working in, there’s a (mostly) obligatory article before proper names, much like in Greek. I.e, ‘Abraam and Sara went’ would need to be:
O Abraam hai i Sara telǎrdǎs
The.M Abraam and the.F Sara went
If we enter key terms with \k o Abraam\k* then this breaks the sort order. If I manually enter the o/i outside the \k...\k* this is worse, because rather than keeping the paragraph together as I hoped, paratext splits the paragraph in two and the article is lost. I imagine that some languages using prefixed honorifics suffer similar problems.

I can think of 3 solutions for the moment, that don’t require manual glossary editing before we get to printing:

1. Include the article in the keyterm and sort externally. This makes finding things a bit of a pain.
2. Include the article after the keyterm \k Abraam\k*,o and then write some kind of changes script to recognise and reorder them.
3. Extend the definition of \k so that it allows a default USFM3.0 attribute, which solves the scripting issues.
   (a) just having the article as an attribute, it could be: \k Abraam|o\k*
   (b) Alternatively, it might be preferable to have \k Printed form |internal representation\k* like with \w, where the internal representation informs linking and the sort order.
   E.g. \k o Abraam|Abraam\k*`

Clearly 3(b) would need some programming effort. I don’t know what option 3 (a) would do to paratext’s internal mechanisms. Would it break the \w linking, etc?

I assume I’m not the first to face this. How have others solved this issue?

Answer 1

凭直觉，你试过不换行空格吗？在早期版本的 Paratext 中，它的表示形式是 ~，所以你在 Paratext 中会有“0~Abram”。大多数导出软件很容易将其替换为 Unicode 不换行空格，如果读者不喜欢短语在行之间断开，这可能也是你希望用于所有圣经文本的。我还没有在最新版本中测试过，但似乎值得一试。请确保在“其他”选项卡的语言设置中将其作为词中字符输入。如果它在 Paratext 中已经不起作用，那么由于历史用法，应该适应这种行为，你可以提交一个错误报告。

祝福，

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所以是 o~\k Abram\k* ？奇怪的是，这似乎有效。
我说奇怪，是因为当我添加一个新的词汇表条目时，（在 \k 之前插入了一个空格，但文本仍然保持在一起。

天哪……希望这与之前的问题无关，我的 Paratext 现在在我尝试插入新的词汇表项时崩溃（无响应） 即使在重启虚拟机之后也是如此。

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如果你将 ~ 放在词中字符中，你不能使用 \k o~Abram\k* 吗？还是这对读者来说显示不正确？

祝福，

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据我了解，它会按“o”而不是“A”进行排序，这不是用户所期望的。

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