Importing text of book while retaining old version

Question

What is best practice for importing a completely new version of a book, while somehow retaining the old version? Long ago, the book of Ruth was drafted in a different dialect than the one which was later chosen for the translation as a whole. A new translation in the standard dialect has been prepared and I want to import it into the project. However, I also want to keep the old version somewhere in the project. Should I just cut and paste the text of the old version into an XX book, so I can repurpose the standard RUT for the new version? Or is there a better way?

Answer 1

It kind of depends on why you're hoping to retain the old book.

Technically, when you paste over it with the new version, you're still retaining the old version. It will permanently be in your history--so all you have to do is go to the "Compare Projects" tool, pick the date when you replaced the old text, and you should be able to compare the new text with the old text. This has the added advantage of both 1) not requiring any extra setup, and 2) allowing you to compare each verse, new vs. old. It has the disadvantage that the "old" version isn't completely obvious to a new person--they would have to know to look back into the history for Ruth.

Another option is simply to go to the My Paratext Projects folder for your project, copy the 08RUT???.SFM book out, and save it anywhere you want.

And, yes, copy/pasting it into a XX book is possible.

Comments

Another option to what mnjames has suggested is to create a copy of the project and then you can also compare the old and new Ruths.