Glossary - We did the mark-up of a term to test in the app like we were instructed by an experienced SIL colleague who knows SAB extremely well (and like the App Building Instructions PDF outlined). However, the marked-up words in Paratext do not show up in the app. The glossary file does show up as a separate book, but there are no links in the actual text to it. I am thinking the problem might be that we are using a Biblical Module file (XXB) to feed the app. Maybe these glossary markers in the actual book files do not carry over via the Module file?
Also in the Glossary - If we mark up the actual book files in Paratext for the glossary terms, it creates some errors in the XXB Module file. In the module, we replace some parts of the text. To do so, you have to give a string of words and then replace them. Now that there are glossary markers in the original books, the XXB module file does not recognize the strings anymore.
There is another user who has indicated that glossary pop-ups don’t appear for an app built from a Biblical Module file (XXB). Can anyone confirm whether this is supposed to work or not?
Hello, I’ve just joined the community and was looking for help on the same problem. I’m receiving support from an experienced SAB user. I can’t get the glossary terms to appear in the app. I’d appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks!
Your question made me realise what the problem might be! In Paratext, we have put verse markers so that we can navigate easily through it, but I realised that this may be stopping the glossary terms from showing. So I simply removed all the \v markers in the glossary book within SAB and now the terms are showing! Hooray!
Are glossary entries limited to paragraphs?
Would this work for a glossary entry?
\ms1 \k Aarde_en_Wêreld\k* \fig |172.jpg|col|||Die aarde en Hemel soos gesien in die Ou Testament|1:10\fig*
\pmo \w Aarde\w* en \w Wêreld\w* verwys in die Bybel na verskeie sake. In baie gevalle is die twee terme egter sinoniem, maar hulle is nie altyd uitruilbaar nie omdat hulle soms eie betekenisse en gebruike verteenwoordig:
\li1 (a) Aarde as die een hoofdeel van die totale skepping (vgl “skepping van die wêreld” \xt Matt 25:3
... etc.
@mcquayi (or anyone else)…we have a Glossary book and the glossary entries are marked as keywords, but not with the \w…\w* as specified by SAB. The project is a RTL project using Arabic script. When I’ve asked the translation team about this, they said:
“We have not marked them with the required USFM’s, and have no plans to do so (because it messes up the suffixes in a cursive script).”
Any help or guidance about this would be helpful. Perhaps it is more a Paratext question but I wanted to ask here in case anyone else has dealt with it.
Does the translation team mark up the words in the text with any markup at all? If it does use changes to convert that to \w ...\w* markup.
The form that has \w gracous|grace\w+ that shows the longer form with suffix but points to the root form, seems to be the way to go. If you have all the words in the glossary, then it may be possible to construct a change for each word that finds the words in the text and changes the markup and creates the above complex form for each word.
If you can write a single (or a few) changes that find words with markup and extracts the root word. Assuming the existing markup is \gl
Find: \\gl (.+)(ous|ly|s)\\gl*
Replace: \\w $1$2|$1\\w*
Of course the root word will be only grac not grace so lots of checking would be needed.
I’ve just tried to link words with the Glossary book which I have at the end of the New Testament. I have a \w…\w* on the very first verse of Genesis for God but it isn’t showing the underline for the word God and there is no pop up window.
