How to verify at the file level if whitespace / invisible-character features were enabled in 9.5.

Question

Am I right in thinking that if the whitespace / invisible-character features have not yet been enabled in 9.5. one could in theory revert to 9.4?

Answer 1

Yes, if the enable is not activated, then the project should be accessible in PT9.4.

One way to confirm that a project is accessible in earlier versions is to open the settings.xml file found in the project folder (c:\my paratext 9 projects\abc\settings.xml). You can open the file in Notepad and look for a line that says: <MinParatextVersion>8.0.100.76</MinParatextVersion>
DO NOT EDIT the file.

Projects that have had whitespace enabled will have a 9.5... as the minimum value.

Comments

Another difference in the settings file, you can look for  <AllowInvisibleChars>, If they are enabled, this value will be T (true) not F (false) as below:
<AllowInvisibleChars>T</AllowInvisibleChars>