Questions by mvk1000

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I would like to do something like the following in my local FRT, but cannot find enough documentation to know how to do it: ... but with no examples, it is hard to know what to do.
asked May 20
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Are there commands that I can use in a TECKit mapping to condition a change with e.g. "following some character", " ... it exists? Years ago we could do that with CC Tables.
asked Mar 19
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Under the Pictures tab of PTXPrint, it is possible to code each picture for Print, App, or Web. It is possible under ... versa. I am using these media tags to distinguish the two.)
asked Mar 2
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Somewhere in the documentation I found the following instruction which I put in ptxprint-mods.tex. \sethook{page}{-4}{\ ... lot of these variables or constants have an @ in them?
asked Sep 12, 2025
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I have a similar problem but can't figure out how to force my local FRT to keep doing roman numerals right straight ... ,3. But that pretty much defeats the purpose of \zgetperiph.
asked Aug 1, 2025
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I seem at a loss as to how to use the Peripherals tab and the Front Matter tab under View & Edit. The auto ... It seems like there is some implied information I am missing here.
asked Jul 9, 2025
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I have had the experience a few times of writing a regex expression which works in RegEx Pal and also in ... Has anyone else had this experience or quantified this discrepancy?
asked Jun 30, 2025
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I was getting strange changes in my Final SFM which nothing I did would get rid of. I finally found in the ... several hours, but everything works fine now that I deleted it.
asked Mar 12, 2025
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Just a heads-up here that some stuff in changes.txt can cause the new PDF viewer's right click menu to be truncated ... file (which in my case was being inserted by changes.txt).
asked Dec 31, 2024
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The email the PTXPrint team sent out a month ago with information about Pretore in the Netherlands was pretty interesting. ... to our attention. It seems like a great possibility.
asked Oct 22, 2024
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Pretore print parameters and PTXPrint
asked Oct 22, 2024
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It seems that if there is any \esb...\esbe material in the biblical text that a \ref field in a Module is trying ... error message (for a Module specifying verse 1 as the start).
asked Oct 5, 2024
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I am sure the answer to this must be out there somewhere, but I can't find it. How can I restrict a search and ... enough it is possible, but that is beyond my level of competence.
asked Aug 13, 2024
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I am wondering about the behavior of the page numbers in the header. In the screenshots below, the introduction to 1 John ... " same as it shows up with the scripture text pages?
asked May 30, 2024
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Anybody else have -2pt=-7pt printed at the top of their title page? Any idea how to get rid of it? It is not anything I have typed anywhere in the program. ?
asked May 30, 2024
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Unless I am missing something, it looks like pictures can be formatted as a cutout (i.e. text wraps ... only decorative purposes, but also solve a practical typesetting conundrum.
asked May 21, 2024
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Is there a syntax for changes.txt to reference individual paragraphs in the introduction material, rather like there is for adjust lists e.g. GAL 1.0 +1[13] (i.e. 13th paragraph)?
asked Apr 21, 2024
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25 years ago I learned CC tables, and got pretty good at it. Now I am trying to get with the times and learn regular ... get my expression to work in Reg Ex Pal in PTX, too.
asked Apr 19, 2024
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We are producing a study Bible NT with lots of long footnotes. As PTXPrint carves up the page real estate between the ... gets thrown off. That doesn't seem normal. Any thoughts?
asked Apr 10, 2024
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Like everyone else, we use Paratext for our Bible translation work, but unlike many Paratext users my wife and I and our ... Extra books in Paratext? It would really be helpful.
asked Jul 7, 2018
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