Removing footnotes for printing

Question

A translation project would like to print a test edition of a book without footnotes. Is there an easy way to make a printout without footnotes?

I didn’t know of one, I suggested making a temporary new project with a copy of the book they wanted to print, and then use RegExPal to remove the footnotes from that copy of the text before printing. RegExPal help lists an expression for selecting all the footnote text:
\f.*?\f*

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Answer 1

Is this being printed from within Paratext? If so you can create a
PrintDraftChanges.text file the project folder that contains or add this
to a preexisting PrintDraftChanges.txt file:

“\f .*?\f*” > “”

anon467281
Global Publishing Services
Scripture Typesetting trainer & Regular Expression Specialist
Dallas TX

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Comments

Thanks, anon467281.
I couldn’t get your string to work. But if I put the same match string I used in RegExPal it worked.

“\f .*?\f*” > “”

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Glad you got it to work. Not sure why my version in the email failed.
Anyway. Happy printing.

anon467281
Global Publishing Services
Scripture Typesetting trainer & Regular Expression Specialist
Dallas TX

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The web page modified what I just posted. Maybe it did to your original post too. Below is the syntax that works, with double backslashes for the \f and \f*, and a backslash before the asterisk. (I did this by selecting “Preformatted text” in the web editor.

"\\f .*?\\f\*" > ""

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