Does not show OT parallel passages

Question

In all projects I’m working, all parallel passages show up.

In one project I only see NT parallel passages plus one single parallel passages from the OT (PSA 118:26).

Why can’t I see all parallel passages?

“All parallels” is active.
All books are active in “Project Properties”

Answer 1

I realise I am late to this conversation, but missing books shouldn’t cause parallel passages not to show up in the tool. If that happens, please report a bug. I can believe that funky \id lines would cause things not to work.

The dialog which defines which books are to be checked for parallelism is in the PP tool menu. It can be a different list of books to the project progress scope:

In Paratext 9.2 opening the Parallel Passages tool to (or navigating to) a book which is not currently included in parallel passage checking scope, should show a banner which looks like this:

Clicking the bold text in the orange banner adds this book to the list of books to be checked for parallel passages.

If the book is neither in project scope, nor selected for PP checking, I see this:

Clicking the bold text in the orange banner adds this book to the list of books to be checked for parallel passages and adds it to the overall project scope in Project Properties.

I am unable to prevent books which are part of a set of parallels from appearing in the PP tool. If a book is not created, not in project scope and/or not selected to be checked for parallelism, it still shows in the tool for me. The only difference is that verse references in books which aren’t in scope are shown in grey in the upper pane:

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Comments

IanH:

I am unable to prevent books which are part of a set of parallels from appearing in the PP tool. If a book is not created, not in project scope and/or not selected to be checked for parallelism, it still shows in the tool for me. The only difference is that verse references in books which aren’t in scope are shown in grey in the upper pane:

If all the verses are in books that are not in your project, I’m fairly certain the entire line will not show up. I don’t think that filter can not be turned off. So if the project only has a few books, a large number of passages will not show up. Currently this is by-design (in the sense that is was purposefully coded that way).

Answer 2

Which books are present in the project? Are there any other OT books besides PSA?
I’m fairly certain that books that are not in the project are filtered out implicitly to keep newer projects from being overwhelmed. This also happens for the Biblical Terms tool.

Answer 3

I would run the Chapter/Verse and Marker checks for those books if you haven’t already done so.

Another thing to check is whether the \id lines are correct and all the same and only one for each book at the top of the file only. This line is what some tools of Paratext use to grab the books and they are supposed to match the full project name in the Project settings as in:

\id MAT – Long Project Name

Of course, the MAT must be the short book name that Paratext uses in the drop down book.

I have creative users who change the book name to their \toc3 abbreviation.

This has been known to impact what is seen in the BT Tool and quite possibly could block the Parallel Passages tool from finding some books.

Do report back to us when you find the answer.

Blessings,

Answer 4

Thanks!

All books were chosen (in Project Properties) but not created (content-wise). So \id was indeed missing. So we created all the books and now see all parallel passages.

The strange thing was that we could see parallel passages for all NT books, although they were not started (just greyed out). But this is maybe a language/sourse question (HE - GR resp. LXX - GNT).

Answer 5

Hi Andre, Once you get this figured out, please let me know also. I am very interested in doing this also. anon441204

Answer 6

Hi anon441204,
When all books were created (at least \id) it worked. Only choosing all books in Project Properties was not enough.

Comments

andre4w:

Only choosing all books in Project Properties was not enough.

When you are in the Project Properties > Book tab you are simply identifying the scope of books that are going to be included in the assignments and progress, but this doesn’t indicate which books are actually included in the project. It is possible to create books that are not listed in the Books tab. If you navigate to a new book and open the Assignments and Progress you should get a message asking if you want to include it in the scope.