Default footnote showing up incorrectly as \fq

Question

I created a couple new empty projects based on the verse numbering and formatting of a default model project. But now I’ve updated the standard formatting styles for my new projects, including how footnotes are handled and I can’t change a reoccurring error.

My new specified style sheet for the project has \fk for a footnote with a keyword. But every time we try to insert a footnote Paratext uses \fq instead (and marks it with red as a wrong marker). I think this comes from the default project I used initially. I’ve gone through project settings and markers inventory but can’t find any way to change the footnote default setting.

Is my only option to delete all the books and recreate them (hopefully getting rid of the old formatting default) so that we won’t have to deal with this error the rest of the project? Thanks!

Answer 1

Are you using Paratext 7 or 8? I have never heard of the footnote insertion function in PT using \fk instead of \fq . When you highlight a word or phrase in the text and create a footnote, that word or phrase is automatically placed after \fq and followed by \ft . I do not know how you can make Paratext use \fk rather than \fq .

The reason your \fq is red is because of an error in your style sheet. I assume you are either using usfm.sty and a custom.sty style sheet (recommended), or have associated the project with your own non-standard style sheet in the project’s advanced settings. It sounds like you need to fix the style sheet.

I am curious why you want to use \fk . \fk means key word and would normally not be the default way one would mark quoted text in a footnote. By default such words are simply quoted text, which is why PT marks them \fq . If you want the word to also be bold then you just need to style \fq as bold-italic. If you want to mark it as a word in the glossary you should tag it with \+w …\+w* “glossary term”. Paratext will then check to make sure it is in the glossary and create hyperlinks to the glossary entry in the USX.

By the way, I doubt deleting the books will solve your issue.

Answer 2

To the question @CrazyRocky raises, it would seem that the USFM distinctions between \fk and \fq are somewhat ambiguous, in light of cases when the word being highlighted from the text in the footnote is in fact exactly the same as the word(s) in the text itself. But the helpful examples of \fk and \fq in the USFM guidelines for footnotes show that, depending on the kind of footnote being used in the text, either can be precisely what is recommended.

I am having a similar problem as the one @jwagner describes. When text is highlighted, \fq comes, but when no text is highlighted, nothing at all comes for the slot where I would like to expect \fk to come (e.g., between “1:1” and “\ft” in “\f + \fr 1:1 \ft \f*”). As \fk is indeed what I am intending to occur (in accordance with my stylesheet, whether text is highlighted or not), is it possible to customize which markers present themselves when a footnote is inserted?