Inserting text into paratext using cut and paste

Question

I recently added a new book (Psalms) first without verse markers and then did a remove book because I wanted verse markers in the text. I then began cutting and pasting psalms from a word document and adding it into paratext and changing all the verse markers. Something I did has slowed paratext way down so that when I do any editing, it takes forever (about 20 seconds before a change happens). I cannot work with this so what can I do?

Answer 1

Just wondering: When you say you’re “changing all the verse markers”–what does that mean…?

Comments

wdavidhj:

@Paul or an administrator: can you edit this to add the missing backslash near the end?:

Done

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Paul:

Love to, but apparently I’m not allowed–I went to the post, but there’s nothing to indicate I can edit it…

Don’t you see a little pencil icon at the bottom of your own posts? See the middle of the three grey icons in the screenshot below.

I think you’re allowed to edit up to about a month from when you post.

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@ wdavidhj: there must be a time limit, because there’s no pencil on the post I wanted to edit… (there is one on my post from 23 Jan, which currently shows as 17 d[ays] ago)

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Paul:

there must be a time limit

Yes, I hadn’t realised how long ago you’d posted that. As I said, I think the time limit is one month.

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Shegnada:

there was a keystroke, alt k, I believe which will sequentially add verse numbers wherever you click.

Ctrl+K (What keyboard shortcuts are available in Paratext?).

Answer 2

Psalms is a big book. My first guess is that you don’t have View > By Chapter selected. Try that and see if it helps.

Comments

Hey Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. After I switched to view chapter, it works normally when I edit.

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Paul:

View > By Chapter

Switching off View > By Chapter can be useful if you want to do certain things, e.g.:

• delete a bunch of sequential chapters (e.g. in a publishing project that’s a copy of a project where some chapters are consultant-checked and some are in draft);
• paste in a whole book from the clipboard;
• paste the chapter, verse and formatting markers from another version or project into part of a book that has no text entered, and where the markers represent the wrong versification, or are otherwise in error. (You could create a temporary project with the right markup in order to copy from it.);
• make quick corrections to issues throughout a book.

Answer 3

Hi John+Wickberg,
I uninstalled the update and got all my data back. So should I try the update again or what?
Thanks,
John+Wickberg C.

Comments

The problem you had is related to a code change in that patch, so you
should keep Automatic Updates turned off for now.

I’ve sent you some messages from the support system for some actions I need
from you for further investigation of the problem.

John+Wickberg
Paratext Support

Answer 4

anon512227:

Something I did has slowed paratext way down

If others have similar problems, here’s another suggestion:

There might be some impact on performance when the book you’re working on is viewed by chapter, but another book in the same group (group “A”, “B”, etc.) has By Chapter switched off. That book will scroll in sync whenever you change verse or chapter in the book you’re working on.