I have a weird problem in the glossary of my project. The glossary contains year ranges for the reigns of a number of kings, e.g. “37–4 B.C.”, “39–44 A.D.”, “1011–971 B.C.”
In the viewer, and in the app, these dashes are converted to dots - or at least most of them:
I have not specified any change rule that would cause this. It does not happen in other books, where some of the introductions also contain year ranges.
Changing the dash to a hyphen does not help. Any clue as to what may cause this, and how to prevent it?
Paulus
Looks like SAB changed it into a link for “1.971” (blue text). If you click the link, what does it do???
Your idea to change to a hyphen was a good one (as a work-around). Maybe try one of the other dashes in Uunicode? Here are some possibilities:
Indeed, it looks like a link: in the Viewer in SAB, the mouse cursor changes to a hand when hovering over it. However, the link doesn’t lead anywhere – whatever the target is, it’s probably invalid.
It gets curiouser and curiouser. I tried all the hyphens and dashes you suggested, and the result was OK for all of them when I put them together in a new paragraph:
But in the original location, neither hyphen nor en-dash works – both are converted to a dot, and the whole number to a hyperlink (interestingly, for the years 1011-971 which I showed in my previous email, the first three numbers were not included in the hyperlink):
Paulus
I’m wondering if SAB somehow interprets the range as a Scripture reference, even though it is not surrounded by any marker.
No closer to a solution, but I found a simple workaround: use space + dash + space in year ranges.
Paulus