I would like to have the Psalms in one column. How do I center the Psalms?

Question

Hi

I would like to have the Psalms in one column. That works. But how do I center the Psalms?

The "Support Agent" advised me to use the \pc style, but it gave me an error.

The "Support Agent" also said that I could create a file shared/ptxprint/Default/ptxprint-PSA.sty with the content

\Marker p
\Justification Center
\FirstLineIndent 0

But how do I tell PTXprint to use it?

Answer 1

Don't believe everything the Support Agent tells you :-)  Hallucination is its default action when it doesn't know the right answer! So please remove the ptxprint-PSA.sty file that you tried. That will not help at all.

I'm not sure what markers your Psalms are currently marked up with, but usually it is \q1 and \q2 for poetry. So if you wanted poetry within the Psalms to be centered, then Add the style(s) (i.e. a new marker or two) based on the existing \q1 and \q2, but limit them to only apply to PSA as shown below:

id:PSA|q1

id:PSA|q2

Then once the NEW style has been added (restricted to work with PSA) you can change it's parameters as shown here:

There is more help on naming of Styles on Pg14 of the technical reference manual (see Help tab).

Note that to get ONE-column layout for PSA in a TWO-column publication, you will need to set this on the Body tab, near the bottom of the screen.

Comments

I do not have formatting in Psalms with \q1 or \g2
In Psalms (one column) I did new style

   id:PSA|p - Paragraph - Normal - Centered

in usfm I use \p \qr Sela. \p

In HAB I use in usfm file
  qr Sela.\p

changes.txt
at HAB "\\qr Sela." > "\\zpqr Sela.\\zpqr*"

and tweak from slides.

ptxprint-mod.tex
% Move the \zpqr word up to the end of previous line (if space permits)
\sethook{start}{zpqr}{\unskip\nobreak\hfill\penalty50\hskip0.3em\hbox{}\nobreak\hfill\hbox\bgroup}
\sethook{end}{zpqr}{\egroup}



And my further question is how can I achieve more line spacing. At line 40 is now \p
With what should I change \p?

\v 39 Kajti spomnil se je, da \add so bili\add* \add samo\add* meso, veter, ki premine in ne prihaja ponovno.
\p
\v 40 Kako pogosto so ga dražili\f + \fr 78,40: \ft ga dražili: ali, se upirali.\f* v divjini \add in\add* ga žalostili v puščavi!

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Add a \b line before \p. That adds a blank line.