Paratext 8 has a built-in system for tracking your translation team’s progress that can give an estimate of how much time it will take to accomplish your project’s goal. This can be useful for the team during yearly planning sessions when tasks are assigned to various team members. It can also allow administrators to track their team’s progress and be notified of potential issues long before the next planning and review session. But if you are going to take advantage of these features, you need to do a bit of configuring. …
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. …
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.
New registration options for Paratext 8
Registering for Paratext 8 was simple enough, you simply went to registry.paratext.org and authenticated with your email address, selecting your organization, and filling out four other blanks–only one of which is mandatory. Simple enough, that is, if you had a connection to the Internet and a G Suite (Google-based) email address. If you didn’t, you were out of luck–although we knew this limitation was only temporary.
Well, now the capability has been added to the registry site for two new registration options, neither of which require a Google account. …
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. …
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