Author: Jeff Shrum

Understanding the Challenge of Multiple Renderings for Biblical Terms 📜

November 14, 2023

Paratext allows you to add glosses or other comments to renderings in the Biblical Terms tool, which can help distinguish between multiple senses of a term.

Empowering Translators: Achieving Accuracy with the Parallel Passage Tool in Paratext 9.3📑✅

June 5, 2023

Enhance your Bible translation with the Parallel Passage Tool. If you do not know Biblical languages, you can use a trusted translation as a model instead.

Alphabetic Characters – Mind your ABCs 🔤

March 15, 2023

Properly defining the alphabetic or word-forming characters for a translation project is essential for getting the maximum benefit from Paratext’s capabilities.

Managing Partial Books with a Project Plan 📚

February 5, 2023

Defining translation priorities in Paratext will allow translators to take advantage of a project plan even when only translating a few chapters of a book.

Make Consistent and Informative Notes with Templates 🚩

October 23, 2022

Note templates help save you time and allow you to easily and consistently enter important information in different types of project notes.

Tired of Red Flags? 🚩 Customize Your Note Tags! 🏷

August 15, 2022

Paratext allows you to create custom note tags to communicate more effectively on issues related to consultant checks, grammar, formatting, and much more.

Layout for Monitoring Additions and Omissions in the Text

April 20, 2022

Translation teams and consultants can use these layout tips to help verify that a verse has no unintentional additions or omissions compared to the source text.

Tame Your List Window in Paratext! 🦁

February 9, 2022

Paratext opens a List window when you do a search or similar operation. Learn how to keep other windows from moving around when you use a List window.

Making “Extra Material” Consistent in Cross-references and Footnotes

November 30, 2021

How to make explanatory information in cross-references and footnotes consistent: See note in verse, Some manuscripts say, Compare, etc.

Finding and Fixing Incorrectly Joined or Split Words in Paratext

September 23, 2021

The Paratext tool Find incorrectly joined or split words compares similar words or letter sequences in your text, even across spaces and word punctuation such as hyphens and apostrophes. It then lets you mark the correct ones and change others as needed to make them correct and consistent.

Understanding the Challenge of Multiple Renderings for Biblical Terms 📜

Paratext allows you to add glosses or other comments to renderings in the Biblical Terms tool, which can help distinguish between multiple senses of a term.

Jeff Shrum November 14, 2023

Empowering Translators: Achieving Accuracy with the Parallel Passage Tool in Paratext 9.3📑✅

Enhance your Bible translation with the Parallel Passage Tool. If you do not know Biblical languages, you can use a trusted translation as a model instead.

Jeff Shrum June 11, 2023

Alphabetic Characters – Mind your ABCs 🔤

Properly defining the alphabetic or word-forming characters for a translation project is essential for getting the maximum benefit from Paratext’s capabilities.

Jeff Shrum March 24, 2023

Managing Partial Books with a Project Plan 📚

Defining translation priorities in Paratext will allow translators to take advantage of a project plan even when only translating a few chapters of a book.

Jeff Shrum June 9, 2023

Make Consistent and Informative Notes with Templates 🚩

Note templates help save you time and allow you to easily and consistently enter important information in different types of project notes.

Jeff Shrum June 9, 2023

Tired of Red Flags? 🚩 Customize Your Note Tags! 🏷

Paratext allows you to create custom note tags to communicate more effectively on issues related to consultant checks, grammar, formatting, and much more.

Jeff Shrum August 27, 2022

Layout for Monitoring Additions and Omissions in the Text

Translation teams and consultants can use these layout tips to help verify that a verse has no unintentional additions or omissions compared to the source text.

Jeff Shrum July 18, 2022

Tame Your List Window in Paratext! 🦁

Paratext opens a List window when you do a search or similar operation. Learn how to keep other windows from moving around when you use a List window.

Jeff Shrum February 16, 2022

Making “Extra Material” Consistent in Cross-references and Footnotes

How to make explanatory information in cross-references and footnotes consistent: See note in verse, Some manuscripts say, Compare, etc.

Jeff Shrum February 18, 2022

Finding and Fixing Incorrectly Joined or Split Words in Paratext

Jeff Shrum April 1, 2022

Author: Jeff Shrum

Understanding the Challenge of Multiple Renderings for Biblical Terms 📜

Empowering Translators: Achieving Accuracy with the Parallel Passage Tool in Paratext 9.3📑✅

Alphabetic Characters – Mind your ABCs 🔤

Managing Partial Books with a Project Plan 📚

Make Consistent and Informative Notes with Templates 🚩

Tired of Red Flags? 🚩 Customize Your Note Tags! 🏷

Layout for Monitoring Additions and Omissions in the Text

Tame Your List Window in Paratext! 🦁

Making “Extra Material” Consistent in Cross-references and Footnotes

Finding and Fixing Incorrectly Joined or Split Words in Paratext

Understanding the Challenge of Multiple Renderings for Biblical Terms 📜

Empowering Translators: Achieving Accuracy with the Parallel Passage Tool in Paratext 9.3📑✅

Alphabetic Characters – Mind your ABCs 🔤

Managing Partial Books with a Project Plan 📚

Make Consistent and Informative Notes with Templates 🚩

Tired of Red Flags? 🚩 Customize Your Note Tags! 🏷

Layout for Monitoring Additions and Omissions in the Text

Tame Your List Window in Paratext! 🦁

Making “Extra Material” Consistent in Cross-references and Footnotes

Finding and Fixing Incorrectly Joined or Split Words in Paratext

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