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

Follow the download link or keep reading below to learn What’s New in Paratext 9.2.

Download Paratext 9.2

What’s New in Paratext 9.2?

Bible Study Authoring

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.

In Paratext 9.2 (and later), there are three types of Study Bible projects:

• Legacy Study Bible – Study Bible projects that were created in Paratext 9.1 and earlier which have not been migrated to the new format.

We’ve picked some of the most important things for you to know about Paratext and included them in this article. Read below for helpful info, tips, and tricks!

Paratext is for Everyone

There are currently 9801 active Paratext users, coming from 390 organizations. 

The Paratext Registry now contains projects in a total of 3,160 languages.

We are working hard to remove barriers to using Paratext. In the soon to be released Paratext 9.2, the Greek and Hebrew texts have been made available to ALL users. That means that anybody can install Paratext and gain access to 277 open access resources and the original language texts.  You can now offer Paratext to Bible students and seminaries to help with their research and learning!

We also encourage anyone who wishes to translate Scripture into a minority language to apply for the Translator Tier of Paratext, provided they commit to translating in a way that is clear and accurate. …

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:

• /Ben Hinnom/
• /Ben-Hinnom/

• /Bethel/
• /Beth-el/

Your team may decide to use or not use a hyphen in names like these. Whichever it is, you can easily find each instance and make them all the same.

How to Find and Fix Incorrectly Joined or Split Words

The feature is found in the Wordlist tool and is called Find incorrectly joined or split words. …

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.