[resolved] BUG: Character in resource (correctly) cannot be search for (bad)

Resource: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Creation and Fall: A Theological Exposition of Genesis 1–3. Edited by Martin Rüter, Ilse Tödt, and John W. de Gruchy. Translated by Douglas Stephen Bax. Vol. 3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

This resource includes paragraph marks in the contents. However, even with a copy and paste I am unable to search for these paragraph markers.

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Rosie Perera

Not surprising, as punctuation is not indexed, and that's essentially a punctuation mark.

You can search for it using Ctrl+F.

MJ. Smith

Bump as Bug responses seems to be behind 1

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/716817#Comment_716817

Rosie's answer is correct.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/716886#Comment_716886

Good try but not very precise.

The Pilcrow is a standard character used in referencing documents by paragraph number - especially used in legal documents but certainly not limited to such. From Wikipedia: "

"In legal writing, it is used whenever one must cite a specific paragraph within pleadings, law review articles, statutes, or other legal documents and materials.

In academic writing, it is sometimes used as an in-text referencing tool to make reference to a specific paragraph from a document that does not contain page numbers, allowing the reader to find where that particular idea or statistic was sourced. The pilcrow sign followed by a number indicates the paragraph number from the top of the page. It is rarely used when citing books or journal articles."

It's essentially an abbreviation for paragraph in the same way that # is an abbreviation for number and $ an abbreviation for dollars.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717206#Comment_717206

It's essentially an abbreviation for paragraph in the same way that # is an abbreviation for number and $ an abbreviation for dollars.

None of those characters are searchable either - except via Find - as they are word separators.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717206#Comment_717206

Good try but not very precise.

The Pilcrow Sign, U+00B6, has character class "Punctuation, other". http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/b6/index.htm

Punctuation isn't indexed. You can use Ctrl+F Find.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717283#Comment_717283

Bradley, standards don't determine how characters/punctuation is processed. It has to be determined by the manuscripts (resources). What would you do in a language where ! is used as a letter not punctuation?

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717741#Comment_717741

What would you do in a language where ! is used as a letter not punctuation?

We would encode it as U+01C3 "Latin Letter Retroflex Click" (which is a letter): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/01c3/index.htm