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I see that there was a bug in v7 (at least) which prevented formatting quotes (italics) as words of Jesus (red). But I ... wrong? Is this a feature or a bug? Is there a workaround?
ASmith 169 asked Jul 10, 2025
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I'm seeing that there was a bug which prevented quotes within words of Jesus markers from being colors in earlier versions ( ... (red) but not both. Can anyone help with this?
ASmith 169 asked Jul 10, 2025
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The language allows quote margins after the quote, e.g., Who is your name?, he asked the man, or Crucify ... any way to tell Paratext to ignore lowercase letters following #.?
Paul 642 asked Mar 30, 2023
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For long quotations (both of Scripture from other locations and from external resources), we'd like to set the quote apart ... \ipm or an \imi marker? Is \ipq the equivalent?
mnjames 1.9k asked Mar 1, 2023
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I receive an error when using \qt when the quote includes another marker such as \pg pg*. Does this mean no ... there anyway around this? What is there purpose for this error?
Clear7419 251 asked Sep 14, 2022
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I'm having a problem with quotation rules where when there is an OT quote embedded in someone's speech. The following is ... to implement that I still couldn't get things to work.
fhardison8588 111 asked Jan 26, 2022
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I am helping with checking a translation for such things as punctuation, quotations, repeated words, etc. I have noticed ... there another way to check for this error? Thank you.
mark2024 124 asked Nov 18, 2021
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I need help here. We have a Quotes within Quotes issue which we don't know how to fix and we ... error as shown below: Quote%20within%20Quote%20problem870 729 221 KB Please help.
TSNgaihte 220 asked Jan 31, 2020
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We're using single quotes in footnotes to show the meaning of a word. For example: ... \ft "Messiah" in Hebrew means 'Anointed ... ' Quotes Continuer required at: p p/q1 b/q1
anon469793 155 asked Jan 29, 2020
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I have a user who is trying to establish quotation rules like the Spanish rules using the em dash, as used in the ... . Anyone know a way around this, or have another suggestion?
BEH 418 asked Sep 25, 2019
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I have an Arabic script project which has 3 levels of quotes: These have the following Unicode ... Paratext, because down-the-road outputs will do the right thing?
jeffh 1.4k asked Jul 29, 2019
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The project we are working on is failing the Quotation rule basic check because, it would seem, of where the period is ... . How do we configure Paratext to allow quoted words .
MSEAIT_LT 478 asked Dec 12, 2018
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We've noticed some formatting problems in PrintDraft around \b and \q1 markers. For example, with the following text: \v 7 ... , but haven't come up with it yet. Any suggestions?
jeffh 1.4k asked Mar 9, 2018
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It seems fairly common to have quoted text in a book introduction. For example in many introductions to the Gospel of ... make the link to the origin verse in book introductions.
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Jeff_Shrum
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Does anyone know if the Scripture reference check validates book names marked with the quoted book name USFM \bk \ ... training materials on book introductions and I need to know.
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Jeff_Shrum
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I'm finally at the point where I need to ask: is there any way to fix the issue of having to add a space ... selected in Checking > Quotation Rules', but something's not right
Paul 642 asked May 11, 2017
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Where do you define quote marker characters as valid'? I have curly quote' markers selected in Checking > Quotation ... I've probably missed it somewhere. Thanks for any help!
Paul 642 asked Mar 16, 2017
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I recently changed Checking > Quotation Rules from <> to regular quotation marks . Using copy / paste from the ... get ParaTExt to use proper opening and closing curly quotes?
Paul 642 asked Nov 2, 2016
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Our project uses the \wj marker for Words of Jesus and displays the text using the default (defined by usfm.sty) ... Any suggestions of how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
mnjames 1.9k asked Nov 23, 2015
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I would like to gather suggestions from anyone who has experience checking translations that use quote dashes. I have a ... that I am uncertain. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
Kent Spielmann 1.8k asked Sep 8, 2015
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