Language choice in project notes

Question

In a certain project, whenever I respond to a note, the note window always opens to Ancient Greek for what I type. It should open to Avokaya_English. It is cumbersome to change every time I open a note. But I cannot find a setting for how to change that default choice of ancient Greek. Any advice?

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Answer 1

Hi Iver+Larsen,
I’ve had this happen to me as well. I believe Paratext simply remembers the last selection you had made for the Notes typing language. It’s possible that it could be was accidentally or because of pasting in something from another language perhaps?

I would try this: Change it to something else such as Avokaya_English and then type something in the note. See if it has stayed as Avokaya_English. If it has, click okay to submit the note. Then return to the note and see if it has defaulted to Avokaya_English this time.
According to the help files, you can also highlight words you’ve already typed and change them to whatever language/writing system you wish.

Comments

Hi, Stephen+Katt,

It was probably selected by mistake at some point. Following your suggestion, it did not work if I responded to a note made by others or myself originally. However, when I tried to create a new note from scratch and selected the right language before typing anything, it did seem to remember the correct language. It now works as it should.

Thanks,
Iver+Larsen

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Great, glad that you got it figured out.

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Glad you got it working.

I believe you could also set it under the Project menu > Project settings > Keyboard:

james_post

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james_post:

I believe you could also set it under the Project menu > Project settings > Keyboard

That does not change the default language, only the keyboard that gets used (i.e. you could type Arabic text as the English language in a note).

Answer 2

Just to clarify, it should default to the last language you switched to while the note text was empty. If there is any text already in the note, Paratext assumes that you are just changing the language of a span of text and not the whole note.
This should happen when commenting on an existing note as well.
It is remembered per-project so you can have a different default language in each project.