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After a project is migrated to PT8, will there be a warning to users who still have edit rights to it in PT7, ... a best practice written up somewhere that helps avoid this issue?
asked Feb 9, 2018
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What software did you use to add the red rectangle that you used to highlight the backlink icon? IrfanView and ... overkill for just adding coloured boxes and circles and arrows.
asked Feb 8, 2018
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I just started PT8 and it wants to update. But first it says Please close instances of Paratext before . The only ... closed when the update that wants to run is only for v8?
asked Jan 23, 2018
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I have a project which is primarily for sharing the books in our text that are publication-ready with one other user. I ... give more details in reply to an answer to the above.
asked Jan 18, 2018
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If an administrator removes a user from the project, does their Notes file get deleted?
asked Dec 9, 2017
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In TortoiseHg Workbench, can I search for all dates when a particular file was changed?
asked Dec 8, 2017
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Is there a way to insert a line break so that at publication time, the text before it is justified (some would ... start of a new paragraph, and the entire paragraph is justified.
asked Dec 8, 2017
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On my new Windows 10 Pro laptop, updating PT 7.6 is in a continuous loop: it doesn't do the update when I ... then it re-downloads the update and prompts me again to update.
asked Dec 8, 2017
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I've just written about project snapshots at Best practice: Keeping project snapshots . In fact, no snapshot was taken of ... need to copy multiple books. Is there a better way?
asked Dec 6, 2017
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I'd like to suggest that it's best practice to make a snapshot of a project by either making a back up, or (preferably ... doesn't fint the aims of this site, then please tell me!)
asked Dec 6, 2017
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Do other users make a separate copy of a translation project for the purpose of print or electronic publication? Is ... the translators prefer one variant and the SE folk another.
asked Nov 7, 2017
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In our project, we have, I believe, three active projects* that are all for the national language. Clearly, they ... has its own project, then see Separate project for publishing?
asked Nov 7, 2017
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I can't seem to get to the Paratext 7 Resources page - has it been taken down? Does this mean that any PT7 ... click Use Byzantine Text to use that instead of UBS Greek.
asked Nov 6, 2017
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Are any other source-language texts, such as the Textus Receptus available in PT7 or PT8? The Textus Receptus would ... a translation seems to differ from the UBS/Nestlé-Alland.
asked Oct 7, 2017
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Lots of Notes in our projects are assigned to the translator of that project - I'm sure that's not unusual. ... a different exegete to a book, presenting a similar situation.
asked Sep 7, 2017
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(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.
asked Jun 26, 2017
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My 120 GB SSD C drive is getting full, and when I look for what's taking space, the cashed installers for PT 7.5, 7. ... TB drive, and move them back if I want to do an uninstall?
asked Mar 13, 2017
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Trying to install PT 7.5 for a new translation project, and on both Win 8 & 8.1 I get the same error: ... complete, result: 0x80070570, restart: None, ba requested restart: No
asked Jan 17, 2017
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I'm working on a project that uses unusual diacritic + Cyrillic character combinations - the sort of thing that SIL fonts ... at the bottom right to see the screenshot full size.
asked Sep 26, 2016
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Brief background: our majority language project has had a bit of a rocky history. The four Gospels were printed in ... verses you've checked and are satisfied with, for example.
asked Sep 26, 2016
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