Exporting from Paratext to FLEx Text

Question

I have a user who is trying to export from Paratext 8.0 to a FLEx text. If he does a copy/paste in Standard mode, he gets all of the backslash codes. If he does a copy/paste from Preview mode, it copies footnote callers, figure captions, and verse numbers.

Is there a way to only have it copy text, not footnote callers, figure captions, or verse numbers? FLEx breaks up the text by sentence anyway, so verse numbers are not necessary and are actually treated as part of the text when left in.

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Answer 1

It is a while since I have done this, (so my advice may not be the most up-to-date - especially with PT8) but it is, or at least was possible to connect FLEx to Paratext so that the PT text can be interlinearized and analyzed as needed WITHOUT exporting and importing (or copying-and-pasting).

Comments

The ‘known issues’ (https://pt8.paratext.org/download/currentversion/known-issues/) used to say:

The following will not work:

• FieldWorks cannot read Paratext 8 projects to import data from them, e.g. into Text and Words feature in FieldWorks.
  but that’s no longer there. I guess it must be fixed. If so, I’d say Mark’s suggestion is definitely the way to go (you’ll need the BTE version of FieldWorks). It’s very slick!

Paul

Answer 2

The procedure to connect Paratext to FLEx is detailed in this .

According to the FLEx developers, it should work to connect Paratext 8 to FLEx 8.3.9 or later.

Answer 3

Well, it says it should work, but actually, importing the text from PT8 into Flex Texts crashes Flex. Mine has crashed doing it for a good long time now. I sent in the necessary error report and worked through the long process with the people there that they require to write up the error and they don’t seem to have managed to fix it yet. So don’t hold your breath!