A way to bold multiple poetry lines without \bd in every verse?

Question

A user wants to make an entire section of poetry bold. Is there a way to do this without having to add the bold marker after every new poetry marker?

I had assumed that the \bd* would delimit the end of a bold section, but it seems that the poetry markers also cause the end of the bold text (even without the \bd*).

Answer 1

Does the user want to display all poetry as bold? In that case, it's best to include this in a custom style sheet: a text file named custom.sty, which is placed in the project folder. It's created and edited outside of Paratext and lists all non-standard formatting of markers.

Include the following lines for all poetry markers in use in the project:

\Marker q

\Bold

\Marker q1

\Bold

etc.

(Background: the formatting of markers is defined in a general stylesheet, in most cases usfm.sty, which is saved in \My Paratext 9 Projects. Styles can be further defined in custom stylesheets, which are saved in the project folder. Anything in a custom style sheet overrides the general stylesheet.)

But if the user wants to highlight only certain poetic sections, there is no other way than using a character formatting marker like \bd ... \bd*, and these have to be repeated in each line.

Paulus

Answer 2

In one project we used \q3 and \q4 to represent emphasized text for refrain/chrous lines. In terms of indentation that meant \q1 = \q3 and \q2 = \q4, but \q3 and \q4 were bold/ lines (cf. example below). This works well with a custom style sheet, but if you share the project data with others, you need to explain, what you did. Apps or web sites may not be able to interpret data the right and might indent \q3 and \q4 more than \q1 and \q2.

\q1 \v ²⁸ Du bist mein Gott, ich danke dir!

      \q2 Mein Gott, ich will dich hoch loben!

\q3 \v ²⁹ Dankt dem \nd Herrn\nd*! Denn er ist gut.

      \q4 Für immer bleibt seine Güte bestehen.