Footnotes on headings: Their \fr reference has changed

Question

I have recently noticed that PT8 reference checking now expects that footnotes on headings, which come immediately before a verse number, to be marked as belonging to the following verse. For example the following footnote in the NIV is correct in Paratext 7:

\sp She\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The main male and female speakers ... are debatable.\f*
\q1
\v 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth....

In PT8 the above gives the checking error

SNG 1:2 Caller in reference [1:2] but should be in [1:1]

In PT8 the correct reference is now 1:2. Did I miss an announcement? I like this behavior, however it means we now have many projects that have errors.

• First I want to make sure this is a permanent change before we change a lot of projects.
• Second I am wondering if there is a easy way for an administrator/archivist to identify projects that many need to be adjusted.
• Finally I am wondering if this is a change that affects other aspects of PT checking or has other implications for marking up our text.

Answer 1

CrazyRocky:

Did I miss an announcement?

No, there was no announcement. It kinda goes back to how the dev team notifies users of changes that have been made for each patch. We don’t have a solution, yet, but are working on a way to create release notes for each patch that gets sent out.

CrazyRocky:

First I want to make sure this is a permanent change before change a lot of projects.

Yes, this is a permanent change (one people have been wanting for years ). Footnotes in section headings will now require the reference of the immediately-following verse number.

CrazyRocky:

Finally I am wondering if this is a change that affects other aspects of PT checking or has other implications for marking up our text.

So far, this only affects the References Check.

Comments

Thank you. This is good news.