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Over-long copyright notice warning + DBL package makes impossible demands of many users.

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Since Feb 3, 2023.

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Description

On importing a DBL package for a diglot demonstration, I was warned of an over-long copyright notice, and instructed to manually update the text in a manually-created front-matter with the text from Paratext (I don't remember if it told me where to look).
The DBL package that was unpacked under the paratext dir, however, is not recognised (at least by Paratext 9), and so there's no way for a non-technical user to discover what the now-truncated text ought to say. The only way to access the full-length copyright information is to open a 'ptxSettings.xml' file with a text editor.

I think it would be better if PTXprint spotted the over-long copyright notice and put it into a zvar, e.g. 'OriginalCopyright' or 'OversizedCopyright'. It would then be accessible / editable from within PTXprint, and could even be included verbatim in the correct peripheral section, if that is felt to be appropriate.

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