[resolved] Copy Bible windows seems to lose italics
I use the New American Standard (which has several words in italics).
If I select a single verse for the "Copy Bible" window, any italics in that verse carry through to the "Copy Bible" window).
If I select a range of verses for the "Copy Bible" window, no italics in those verses carry through to the "Copy Bible" window.
I already sent an email to Logos support on this.
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Robert Howard said:
If I select a range of verses for the "Copy Bible" window, no italics in those verses carry through to the "Copy Bible" window.
This depends on the setting you choose for the copy format. For example I see no italics at all (1 verse or more) when I use any setting other than "Fully Formatted". With Fully Formatted I get italics no matter whether I chose 1 or more verses.
You've pointed out something I believe Faithlife should fix: italics should come through on copying for all possible formats.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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Mark Smith said:
You've pointed out something I believe Faithlife should fix: italics should come through on copying for all possible formats.
Digging a little deeper, there is a custom setting %NoCharFormatting that controls whether the italics should show up. Some of Logos' styles (and I have customized some so don't know which are theirs and which are mine) do not have that setting and will show the italics. They should show in every verse, though.
Can you identify which verses you were copying that show this anomaly?
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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First try Ezra 3:3-6 using the NASB. Verses 4 and 5 contain words in italics, but they don't show at all in my Copy Bible window.
If I try Ezra 3:4-5, the italics for v4 show, but those for v5 don't.
If I try Ezra 3:5-6, the italics for V5 show (there are none in v6 so that's OK).
If I try Ezra 3:5 by itself, the italics show.
I always use the one citation style that I created for my specific needs ... and it does not contain %NoCharFormatting
bob
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I tried this using the Fully Formatted style since that preserves the italicized text:
I highlighted the italicized text after copy and paste into MS Word. It worked for me.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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My citation style is as follows:
%UseBibleParagraphs
%NoFootnotes
%NoCitation
%NoRedLetter
%ForEachVerseStyle=Normal
=Header
<p><b>[FullPassageRef] ([Version])</b></p>
=ForEachVerse
<p><b>[ChapterNum]:[VerseNum]
[VerseText]</b></p>
In those final lines ... if I remove the <p> and </p> HTML tags (which put each verse as a new paragraph), then it works OK!
But I should be able to do that.
bob
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Robert Howard said:
But I should be able to do that.
Yes, you should. When I get a chance I'll try your citation style and let you know my results.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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Thanks so much ... this is very puzzling!
bob
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Did you get this working?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I finally got this working, but I reported back (not on this forum) to Logos that their whole handling of this does not truly fit "best practices."
As far as the "solution" goes, I removed %UseBibleParagraphs ...
But my bigger concern was that words in italics in the New American Standard (as in several other Bible translations) are not what I would consider "formatting." They're an inherent part of the translation itself. For text not in a Bible, I think italics are typically used for emphasis, or maybe to make the text stand out somewhat and probably could be considered "formatting."
I made this point because I wanted to be able to use %NoCharFormatting (so I could get rid of the special format applied to the first few words of each chapter), but this definitely removes the italics. Yet I maintain that in a Bible translation italics are not "formatting" (see above) but critical and should never be removed.
Anyway, it now seems to be working ... I just have to manually play around with the first few words of a chapter when the situation arises.
bob
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Robert Howard said:
Anyway, it now seems to be working ... I just have to manually play around with the first few words of a chapter when the situation arises.
This works
%NoRedLetter
%NoFootnotes
%NoCitation
%UseBibleParagraphs
=Header
<p>[FullPassageRef] ([Version])</p>
=ForEachVerse
<p>[ChapterNum]:[VerseNum]<tab>[VerseText]</p>But the formatting of the first verse has to be corrected.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Thanks ... but that addition of %UseBibleParagraphs give me formatting that I don't want for my purposes. bob
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