Verbum Tip 2c: Summary of text terms in Search arguments

MJ. Smith

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Summary of text term search options:

All the major constraints that can be placed on a text term in a search argument have now been introduced. Please let me know if I have missed any, no matter how trivial.

Common entry considerations
text	Single word text term. May be in any language and script.
(default)	Intra-word punctuation is considered; Inter-word punctuation is not
“phrase”	Multiple words in quotation marks Bradley Granger noted: that the comma operator is supported inside phrases:,,, "theology of the (new,old) testament"
h:transliteration a:transliteration g:transliteration s:transliteration	Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Syriac may be entered in transliteration which will be converted to original language script/spelling as a search argument
German:text French:text Italian:text Portuguese:text Spanish:text English:text	The text may be tagged as being in a particular language using standardized language names.
Wild cards (use is discouraged as performance is poor)
*	match any sequence of zero or more characters
?	match 1 character in a word, and also matches zero characters at the end of a word.
Panel Menu constraints
Match case	Requires typographic case to be considered in the search.
Match all word forms	Allows other grammatical forms of the word to be considered as a match; applies only to languages for which a stemming routine is implemented.
Match equivalent references	Allow similar preaching theme, theological theme … etc. to be treated as a match
Advanced sensitivity constraints: all languages All sensitivity constraints can be combined by separating with a comma, for example [match vowels, accents]
[match marks]text	Considers all non-spacing marks as significant
[match nomarks]text	Ignores all non-spacings marks
[match exact]	Legacy for [match marks]
[match all]	Legacy for [match exact]
Advanced sensitivity constraints: languages using typographical (upper, lower) case
[match case]text	Same as Panel Menu constraint, Match case
Advanced sensitivity constraints: Hebrew and Aramaic
[match vowels]text [match dagesh]text [match accents]text [match massora]text [match rafe]text [match critical]text [match pointed]text [match cantillated]text [match holem-haser]text
Advanced sensitivity constraints: Greek
[match iota-subscript]text [match dieresis]text [match breathing]text [match accents]text [match technical-marks]text [match unaccented]text [match polytonic]text
Advanced sensitivity constraints: Syriac
[match vowels]text [match silent]text [match begadkephat]text [match grammar]text [match barrekh]text [match music]text [match accents]text [match dialect]text [match abbrev]text