Italicize terms marked with \pn and \png

Question

The language I work with does not have visible spaces between words nor does it have capitalization. To make proper nouns easier to recognize we mark them with the format markers such as \pn (proper name) and \png (geographic proper name) and apply styles in the formatted text. Currently, SF ignores these markers. Can SF do something to make these terms stand out as proper nouns, such as italicize?

Answer 1

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that this is something that Scripture Forge cannot do at the moment. A lot of the markers are stripped out of the text during training and draft generation. But I can imagine other teams wanting something similar for terms like \nd LORD \nd*.

As for the specific formatting to be applied, that is usually controlled by Paratext or PTXPrint. So the main issue is whether or not Scripture Forge is capable of preserving usfm markup on these words. But are you planning to edit the draft in Scripture Forge or importing it into Paratext to work on it there?

Comments

Oh, that's interesting. I don't know how SF works 'under the hood'. So far we haven't done any editing of the text in SF; that happens in Paratext.

We're using SF for community checking and for the reasons stated earlier the text is more difficult to read without some special formatting of proper nouns.