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I've been typing the answer to "What color is the bottom of the sea?" for every comment and edit for a while now. How can I become verified, please? Thanks!
KimB 673 asked Nov 4, 2025
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Earlier this year a new version of PTXprint undid my "finished" layout settings. Now I see an option on the Advanced page: ... -savvy enough to figure it out. Can you help, please?
KimB 673 asked Nov 4, 2025
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Computers in a project I work with recently had PT 9.5 installed and they are now making use of the glosses in Swahili in ... is stored so as to copy over a clean copy. Thank you.
anon380150 249 asked Oct 30, 2025
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Someone on our team with vision problems wants the verse numbers in our project to be larger. I thought this should be ... a custom style sheet, but it does not seem to work.
Random User 105 asked Oct 30, 2025
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I have PT 9.5 installed and therefore can chose from a variety of languages glosses, including Swahili, in the ... do they get the extra language glosses to appear? Thanks.
anon380150 249 asked Oct 27, 2025
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A translation I've working with has this "/toc2 Мафтей". When it is rendered in Formatted and Standard views the ... for this marker. Is this /Italic setting causing this behavior?
KR 152 asked Oct 22, 2025
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I have read through "Glossary Best Practices" (https://support.bible/3952/glossary-best-practices?show=3952#q3952). The information ... 'off', I'd sure appreciate it! Thanks, Paul
Paul 647 asked Oct 21, 2025
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We have a use case where the team wants to distribute individual chapters to different team members for review. There is a ... be used to force chapters to start on an odd page?
mlucas53 148 asked Oct 15, 2025
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I am interested in developing a custom plugin or two for Paratext. I have downloaded the demo plugins from ... using Paratext 9 and have Visual Studio Community edition installed.
ds50 107 asked Oct 13, 2025
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Hi, Is there anyone out there who has a project where the publisher/community would like to see a diglot with just ... SIL, Eurasia area, but not actually in a sensitive project.)
DG 1.1k asked Oct 10, 2025
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I'm running Ubuntu 25.04 with Wayland, and I installed paratext-10-studio like this: sudo snap install paratext-10- ... SIGSEGV (Address boundary error) How do I fix this problem?
bit 496 asked Oct 9, 2025
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I'm running Ubuntu 25.04, and I installed ptxprint like this: sudo apt install python3-ptxprint I experience ... this version of Python does not have the _posix_flavour attribute.
bit 496 asked Oct 8, 2025
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I noticed that PTXprint is distributed on Ubuntu 25.04 under the package name python3-ptxprint (Edit: this is incorrect ... to include it as a dependency in my Python application.
bit 496 asked Oct 8, 2025
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We're using /xt in footnote cross-references, set to use 'short name' of book. But in the glossary I'd like to use ... name, is there a different USFM code I could use for that?.
Lenice 182 asked Oct 7, 2025
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L.S. The normal exegesis-goto for translators are the Bible society manuals. Many of them are available in french via the ... 2 Peter. Much obliged, Bart. PS. Available in HBKFRA:
goodgoan 347 asked Oct 7, 2025
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What is best practice for importing a completely new version of a book, while somehow retaining the old version? Long ago, ... RUT for the new version? Or is there a better way?
Ruth Mathys 153 asked Oct 7, 2025
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HBKFRA is our daily goto for exegesis. The fact that TOB is no longer available in PT9 is a big problem for the use ... lost having to type in manually each reference .... Bart.
goodgoan 347 asked Oct 6, 2025
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The last line in my Credits list on the Verso page is: "All other illustrations by Markus ..." The problem is that there ... into "all other ...", which seems more logical to me.]
KimB 673 asked Oct 6, 2025
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I am trying to create custom scripts for use in Paratext. The problem is that they seem to be silently ... \script SimpleTest.py \description Simplest possible test \toText \utf8
ds50 107 asked Oct 3, 2025
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A colleague who is also an Administrator and has permissions to "All books in project" added a note and also made a ... type" from "Test or Training" to "Study Bible Additions."
anon180868 195 asked Oct 2, 2025
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