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What do I need to do to prevent Paratext's built in PDF generator from starting a new page with every \mt# marker? At least that's what seems to be triggering the unwanted behaviour... A sample of my Bible Module follows:

\b \p \bd Gospel\bd*
\p \it Mak 13:33-37\it*
\ref MRK 13:33-37

\mt3 Second Sunday of Advent
\p \bd First reading: \bd* \it Aesaea 40:1-5,9-11\it*

The PDF generator will start a new page with "Second Sunday of Advent", but that wastes a LOT of page space.

Any help appreciated!

Paul
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"PrintDraft" was basically a slimmed down, non-configurable version of PTXprint. It's also been removed from Paratext for a while, which makes one wonder what version of Paratext you're on.

There might be a way to do what you want inside of PrintDraft, but it's likely the real solution is to either:

1) Use PTXprint which, while a little complicated to set up, is much more configurable, or

2) Use \ms# markers rather than \mt# ones

Logically #2 makes sense to me--why would you consider weekly divisions the title to an entire "book" rather than major section divisions?

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Thanks mnjames—the \ms# markers were what I needed.

I use Linux, and until very recently PT 8. However, it stopped loading, so I've begun using PT 9.0. Eagerly anticipating PT 10! As for PTXprint, I haven't had good luck with it processing my 'modules'...

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