How do I change the stylesheet in Project Properties/Advanced?

Question

I originally set up my projet with an older version of Paratext. Somewhere along the line I changed the default stylesheet shown under Project Properties: / Advanced to my own modified one.  At the time I was not familiar with the use of custom.sty which would have been the way to do it.  I am now approaching the end of my project and preparing it for the typesetters which will be shared with them in Paratext. I am wondering if this is going to cause additional problems for them. It seems that in older versions I could change the stylesheet under project settings but it does not seem to be an option now. I want to change it back to the USFM.sty and make my customizations in the correct way using custom.sty. How do I change the stylesheet under the project properties?

Answer 1

When I open my projects, I see the Stylesheet listed as usfm.sty and then off to the right, it says (Customized).  I'm assuming you're seeing something different, probably something with a different name instead of usfm.sty.

If you close PT and open the Settings.xml file in the project directory, then you should be able to manually change the stylesheet name. I think if you name it as usfm.sty (and make sure that file isn't present in the current directory, then it will look for usfm.sty in the My PT # Projects folder one level higher, and also use custom.sty.

You would then need to port the necessary styles into custom.sty. This can be a little tedious because in general you only want to list places which change usfm.sty, whereas your old customized stylesheet probably had lots of places which just copied the default values in.