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Finding and Fixing Incorrectly Joined or Split Words in Paratext

What are Incorrectly Joined or Split Words?

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.

Unlike a spell-checker, this feature looks across word breaks to find sequences like this:

  • /be long/
  • /belong/ 

Looking at the context, you can judge each form and mark it as Correct, Incorrect, or Unknown.

In another instance, the tool compares these similar forms: …  read more

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Paratext 9.2 beta is now available

It is our great privilege to announce to you the availability of the Beta version of Paratext 9.2!  On behalf of the entire development team, we hope that this software is a blessing to you in your work.

Today, you can download Paratext 9.2 Beta from the download page!

What’s New?

  • Paratext 9.2 includes major feature upgrades for Study Bible Authoring.  Older Study Bible projects can be migrated to the new, greatly improved, Study Bible Additions (SBA) project type.  The new improvements add  greater versatility, fix many old bugs, and provide much greater performance than the older Study Bible project format.  We think you will love it!  Detailed SBA improvements are linked below.
  • The Interlinearizer has been improved to make it easier to set up and reopen interlinear projects.  You may now choose to create an interlinear project using a translation project or resource as the model text, or you can create an interlinear project without a model text.
  • Paratext 9.2 includes an XML Resource Viewer.  This is a new capability to display XML based Biblical resources such as lexicons and commentaries.  The main advantages of XML resources is that they can break out of the confines of USFM markup and book-chapter-verse navigation.  Paratext 9.2 includes access to two XML resources, Liddel Scott Jones, Abbot-Smith, and more to come in the future.  Instructions to download and view these Greek lexicons are below.  An XML-based resource editor is currently in development, and will be offered as a Paratext plugin.
  • Paratext 9.2 includes a brand new Paratext Plugin API 2.0 that can be used to create new plugins to extend the functionality of Paratext in new ways.  As this API gets out into the hands of our partners’ development teams, we expect to see many new plugins become available for the Paratext community.  This offering of the plugin API includes Developer Documentation, the Paratext Plugin API 2.0 Wiki describing how to use the API, and Reference Plugins that demonstrate how to use the API in working code.
  • Paratext 9.2 includes a completely new Paratext Live backend support capability.  Paratext Live allows for real time collaborative editing of Bible translation projects, similar to Google Docs.  The new infrastructure provides greater reliability and performance in collaboration sessions.  If your team uses Paratext Live, please note that Paratext Live in 9.2 is not compatible with Paratext Live in 9.1.

Thank you for your support!

We hope that you can take the time to try out this beta offering.  Please let us know how it goes for you.  From within Paratext, you can go to the Paratext menu → Help → Give Feedback  menu option, fill out the form, and click “Send” to let us know how we are doing.  Your feedback is invaluable in identifying and fixing bugs.  Positive feedback is also very valuable for team morale and for partnership development.  So, please share your thoughts. …  read more

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Resource Texts for Bible Translation

Paratext 7 came with 121 resource texts in forty different languages. What is in store for users of Paratext 8?

A resource text is a text that is not editable and is available for other translators to use as a model text or to gain insight into possible ways to render a difficult passage. When an ideas or object in the original language doesn’t have a direct equivalent in the receptor language, the translator looks for creative ways to describe it in the receptor culture. Take the word “throne” for example. It often refers not to a chair, but is representative of a kingdom and its power or authority. And even when it does refer to the chair a king sits on, that can also be difficult to express in cultures where chairs are not used. In these cases, a translator will look to translations from similar cultures in the area to see how the ideas were expressed. In Paratext 7, if the text you wanted to use for ideas happened to be one of the 121 existing resources, then you were fortunate. If not, it was rather difficult to obtain such a text other than buying the physical book if it was still in print. …  read more

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What’s new in Paratext 8.0

You can save progress settings as a base project plan and use those settings in other projects. You can copy expected rate of progress from one task to another. You can specify stages, tasks, and checks for a project; add tasks to your project paln from a base project plan, assign tasks and checks to users on the project; and view or mark project progress.

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Multiple Paratext Resource Updates

Paratext 8 is slowly but surely getting new resources added.  Not as fast as everyone would like, of course, but negotiating new licenses for the texts we have used in the past has proven challenging. Not only that, but in a number of cases, the texts we want to use are not yet uploaded to the Digital Bible Library.  Yet progress is being made because almost every time you open Paratext 8 and go to the Download/Install Resources dialog box, you will see certain items marked as new  or updated .  Paratext checks to see which resources have been added since you last looked, and it also checks for newer versions of the resources that you have installed. …  read more

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