Imported English Bible text displayed in Helena font

[Andrew Perriman]

I'm using 13.0.4 on MacOS 10.15.3.

 

I have just tried reimporting an old user Bible text (an English translation), and it displays using Helena font. The text file is Mac OS Roman. The Set Text Display dialogue for the imported text has Helena for the font under customise Contents but greyed out. The font cannot be changed.

 

What am I doing wrong? The import used to work fine.

 

Edit: it appears that the Bible text has been imported as a "Greek Text". It is listed under Greek Texts in the Amplify menu.

 

Thanks.

Edited February 24, 2020 by Andrew Perriman

[Andrew Perriman]

Further to this, I have two quite similar versions of the same English translation. Both are Legacy Mac (CR) and Western (Mac OS Roman). One imports as a Greek text with Helena font, the other imports as an English text as expected. Apart from a difference in size, I cannot see any other difference between the two source files. I have tried deleting from the Library, restarting Accordance, and re-importing, but the outcome is the same.

[Helen Brown]

Have you tried simply setting the display font after import?

[Andrew Perriman]

Yes. The font option under Customise Theme in the Set Display Text box is greyed out. See attached image.

[Fabian]

If the text is imported as a Greek text, then the options are greyed out. 

 

The question is more; why is it imported as a Greek texts? 

 

Try to copy the text from BBEdit to a new file of BBEdit and import it again.

 

Try also to import only a part of this texts. To see what happens. Especially if you import it from the second book of your text.

Edited March 11, 2020 by Fabian

[Andrew Perriman]

It appears that the bad text file was encoded “UTF8, with BOM”. How that came about, I don't know. I thought I'd checked that. It's now fixed, anyway. Thanks for your help.