4.3 Beta 7: PBB compiler turns plain text into link when not desired

EDIT: I'm not sure whether this is a bug or just something I don't know how to do right.

Is there any way to avoid having a mention of a Biblical reference converted
into a link?

The standard way to create a link is to insert a tag like this:

[[Bible:Ge 25:8]]

But it seems that the [[Bible: ]] tag isn't required, since the PBB compiler
will parse and turn into a link any mention of a Biblical reference.

What if I wanted to avoid having some text turned into a link? For example
I'm using "Genesis 49" as a heading for a section in a hypothetical
Bible Cross-Reference Index resource that I'm building up. I don't want that to
turn into a link. Here's how it looks in my source document and in Logos:

Notice that GENESIS 49 has become a link, but I didn't want it to.

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Comments

Ebbe Andréasson

My work around in Libronix was to use the text tag: [[text+en:Genesis 49]] but so far I can't view my PBBs in Logos 4 so I haven't test this tag.

Maybe you can try to use a hard space after Genesis.

Kevin Becker

I suppose you could open up the guts of the xml file and insert some junk tags in the middle of the Genesis 49 text to try to run interference with the scripture recognition [:)].

But seriously, It would be good to know how to opt text out of the auto-reference tagging.

Melissa Snyder

I've submitted a request for an option to disable auto reference tagging, and also asked if there is a way to type the reference so it is not detected.

Update: For Bible references you do not want linked, I've found that adding an underscore will prevent auto detection; i.e., John_1:1.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/256987#Comment_256987

Nice ideas Ebbe, Kevin, and Melissa, but:

[[text+en:Genesis 49]] doesn't work in Logos 4 (perhaps it just hasn't been implemented yet?)

I tried a hard (non-breaking) space and that didn't work either, but it could have been because of garbage XML being generated when I edited the document in Word. I can't try it with my clean-XML generation method (start from a txt file) because you can't put those non-breaking space characters in a txt file.

You can't easily edit the XML if you don't know what you're doing; I tried once, just a simple textual edit, and it made the docx file unreadable by the PBB compiler. I think there are checksums and stuff that make it so you can't go into the document.xml file inside the docx and edit it with abandon.

I don't really want an underscore to show up in my book.

So I'll hold on for hopefully a time when Logos will provide a way to disable auto reference tagging for a particular instance.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/257050#Comment_257050

You can't easily edit the XML if you don't know what you're doing; I tried once, just a simple textual edit, and it made the docx file unreadable by the PBB compiler. I think there are checksums and stuff that make it so you can't go into the document.xml file inside the docx and edit it with abandon.

I don't think there are checksums. I've added several paragraphs to a .docx without causing problems. But balancing those XML tags can be really tricky.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/257054#Comment_257054

I got a very strange problem with Bible links. In docx file there is a paragraph with a few BIble references and in the pbb it turned almost whole paragraph to the Bible reference link

See the pictures:

First the docx original:

And now the PBB version:

Rich DeRuiter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/257309#Comment_257309

I got a very strange problem with Bible links. In docx file there is a paragraph with a few BIble references and in the pbb it turned almost whole paragraph to the Bible reference link

I had one of these yesterday. I got rid of it by deleting the entire Scripture reference in the docx text, + the characters before and after. Then I retyped those in fresh.

You may also need to 'wash' the XML using the RTF method described in the wiki.