The Paratext Newsletter: Sharing helpful info, updates, and announcements about Paratext
Training Videos Are Now Available in Arabic!
The Arabic team has been hard at work, creating a brand new set of training videos in Arabic. They have completed more than 65 videos, with more to come (pending additional funding 🙏).
Please share the Arabic training videos with your colleagues working in Arabic speaking areas.
New Training Videos in Other Languages
Our teams have also made many new training videos in other languages in the last year or so.
- **简体中文** (50+ new videos)
- 繁體中文 (50+ new videos)
- português (18 new videos)
- français
- español
- русский язык
- Bahasa Indonesia
Would you please take a moment to share relevant videos with your co-workers?
Critical Funding Needed for Training Videos
In the last 4 years, the Paratext videos have been viewed over 64,000 times by a total of over 9,000 users!
We’ve reached a critical moment and need $35,000 in funding to complete these training videos in Arabic and Chinese, two of the most highly used languages of the world.
If you or someone you know is available to help with this need, please contact us!
Paratext is 30 years old!! 🥳
From humble beginnings to becoming the most trusted Bible translation software available, Paratext has helped translate Scripture into over 3,220 languages over the last 30 years!! Dive into Paratext’s history and pray with us for what the next 30 years holds.
Paratext 9.5 Beta Released
Paratext 9.5 Beta adds support for viewing and editing whitespace and invisible characters in key areas, along with improvements to Study Bible Additions (which now includes support for Assignments and Progress tracking). Inventory features now support undo/redo, dockable panels, and filtering. There are also improvements to Biblical Terms glosses, Interlinearizer settings, as well as various bug fixes.
See our full 9.5 Beta article to learn more.
Key Terms of the Old Testament (KTOT) Updates
Key Terms of the Old Testament (KTOT) updates are now available from within Paratext.
Instructions to download/update KTOT are available on the KTOT webpage.
May the Lord bless your translation work tremendously!
James, for the Paratext Team 👋