PT tutorials and best-practices documents

Question

Continuing the discussion from USFM marker for geographical location names:

USFM marker for geographical location names

It’s a hefty tool, check the Help and Guides in Paratext for information on how to get started.

I see Help in PT, but where are Guides?

Also makes me think that there should be a link somewhere in the PT program to guides that are only available on the http://lingtransoft.info site .

Answer 1

Well, I admit that I didn’t pay particular attention to the reference to “Guides” when Ian H. responded to my initial question. Now I’ve looked at lingtransoft.info, and I don’t see them there, so perhaps a link could be supplied in this forum in the meantime, until wdavidhj’s recommendation to put a link in the PT program itself?

Comments

anon488349:

Now I’ve looked at lingtransoft.info, and I don’t see them there

anon848905 has pointed out that the Guides are the help that by default appears to the right of every dialog box. I knew about those, but when I read “Guides” in the original posting, what came to mind was longer “how-to” documents or tutorials. AFAIK, there are some of those on http://lingtransoft.info , along with some suggestions of best practices, though I’ve not spent much time on that site, so I could be wrong. (“Tutorials” is probably the best word for the former; now I wish I could change the subject of this thread to “Tutorials and best-practices documents”.)

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If you go to http://lingtran.net/LingTranSoft+Wiki you will find tabs for various resources, tutorials, training plans, and other documents.

Answer 2

Guides in Paratext are attached to the right side of windows for settings
and properties. So, if you open the Project Properties and Settings window
you will see a guide to the right. These can be closed, but they contain a
lot of good information about how the settings should be configured.

anon848905