Squares in text

Greetings all,

Does anyone know what causes little squares to appear in the text? I see most commonly in the HCSB but have seen it elsewhere. Below is an example:

　When all the flocks were gathered there, the _⌊shepherds_⌋ would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep. (Genesis 29:3)

Here they show as a subscript bracket but in Logos they show as squares.

I have tried using several different fonts but the squares remain. I also looked in the special formatting dialogue in the introduction but couldn't find anything about this. I also don't see any other posts.

Does anyone know what the squares mean?

Thanks for any help you can lend.

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Graham Criddle

Hi Russell

Typically these brackets (which is how they appear on my system) are used to indicate where words, which were not in the original text, have been inserted into the translation to help with understanding.

Graham

Mark Barnes

I have tried using several different fonts but the squares remain.

Both the default fonts (at the top of the font menu) will work, as will Arial Unicode. As you've noticed, most other fonts don't include these characters.

Maclen4

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/326061#Comment_326061

Thanks to both of you,

I will try "trading fonts" and see what happens. At least now I know what they are representing.

I will post when I find out if it works.

Thanks,

Russell

Maclen4

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/326150#Comment_326150

Mark and Graham,

Changing the font to Arial Unicode changed it to brackets just like you said. Now I know my machine is not broken and what to look for if I use a non default font.

I appreciate both of you sharing your vast knowledge with a cotton headed ninny muggins such as myself.

Thanks to both of you and God bless,

Russell