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How do I fix wrong 'Missing capital after sentence final punctuation' when followed by \qac lower case label \qac*?
I added Hebrew letter transliteration names in acrostic Psalms inside the \qac USFM. Below is a sample of the end of Psalm 9:2-9:3 ... \b \q1 \v 3 \qac (bet) \qac* Ngabafocne...
anon635921 121 asked Sep 22
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02BC treatment in PT9.5
The treatment of 02BC in PT9.5 seems to have been changed. I am using 02BC as apostrophe for elision. It is defined as ... ? What am I missing? Thanks in advance for your help.
goodgoan 347 asked Jan 16
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Designate semicolons as only permitted in cross-references?
In our project, semicolons are permitted as separators between cross-references, but not in any kind of text. Is ... just have to locate and remove rogue semicolons using Find?
Ruth Mathys 153 asked Sep 22, 2025
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Error message when using square brackets in text
I am a volunteer (limited experience with PT) helping a translation team get the Gospels and Acts ready to be uploaded ... this error message. Thank you in advance for your help.
mark2024 124 asked Aug 15, 2025
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Why does Paratext when drafting generate a wrong quotation mark instead of the one I enter?
Hi, I've a problem with quotation marks in my Paratext project. Whenever I want to type standard quotation marks ( ... this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks, Christopher
christopher_meyer 106 asked Aug 31, 2023
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How to get footnotes with no final period to pass the punctuation check
Some translation projects do not want to have periods at the end of their footnotes. Simply leaving them off will ... at the end of footnotes - Helps - Paratext Supporter Site
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Jeff_Shrum 2.9k asked Aug 30, 2022
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Punctuation treated as word forming characters
I have created a new transliteration project, and am trying to apply some consistent changes to supplement the one-to- ... reason for this behavior. I am stumped. Any suggestions?
DVM 175 asked Oct 20, 2020
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Invalid medial punctuation for a number
I'm getting a basic checks error: REV 11:3 Invalid medial punctuation: (1 260). It is triggered by this text: ... in the configuration of checks, or is this a Paratext bug?
jeffh 1.4k asked Sep 1, 2020
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Unmatched Punctuation Check mishandles quotations that continue across paragraph breaks
When I run the Unmatched Pairs of Punctuation Check (PT 8 or 9), almost every opening quotation mark that starts a quote ... this case!). Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?
viverechristus 296 asked Aug 21, 2020
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Punctuation missing at end of paragraph and \qt marker
When running the Basic Checks->Punctuation tool, I'm getting a large number of errors saying Punctuation missing at ... to identify a new paragraph whenever a \qt marker occurs?
mnjames 1.9k asked May 12, 2020
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Error about invalid punctuation in Glossary [solved]
Working on a Glossary and running basic checks. A lot of helpful errors coming up. But where we refer in the text to ... . Or I am overlooking something. Thank you for your input.
Tim 934 asked Jun 18, 2019
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I am not allowing to add final Punctuation for Deganagiri
We have languages using Devanagari script. In Devanagari final punctuation is । (danda marker). But Paratext 8 is not ... How can I add custom punctuation to Paratext? thanks binoy
binoy 329 asked Jul 6, 2018
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Invalid Initial Punctuation
I received this question from a translator: Do you know why I am getting this error and how I can tell Paratext ... SIL PNG Language Resources Ukarumpa EHP 444 | Papua New Guinea
SIL LSS PNG 411 asked Feb 1, 2018
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How do we handle languages that do not use punctuation to mark end of sentence
We have several languages in our area that do not normally use punctuation to mark end of sentence. They mark end of ... a lot of Punctuation missing at end of Paragraph . Thanks
MSEAIT_LT 478 asked Nov 29, 2017
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Word medial punctuation can interfere with Biblical terms tool
Today I was working with a new project approving renderings with the Biblical terms tool. I had approved the rendering ... not being marked as correct by the Biblical terms tool.
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Jeff_Shrum 2.9k asked Aug 7, 2017
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Check for footnote caller/reference before or after punctuation
(Also see this thread.) Most publications that I read in English (including English Wikipedia) put footnote callers outside ... regex for it, I'll add it to this thread.
wdavidhj 1.4k asked Jun 26, 2017
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