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Paratext 9 has been out for seven months now, and it is clear from the feedback we received that most people who have upgraded are enjoying it. The upgrade path is extremely smooth since there is no migration process, allowing teams to upgrade their users one at a time as they feel ready. Now, as we patiently wait for everyone to upgrade, Paratext 9 is getting all the improvements that users like you have requested, while Paratext 8 is only in maintenance mode. Occasionally we discover users who are holding on tightly to Paratext 8, claiming that they’ll only move to Paratext 9 when someone forces them to. This is certainly not the result we were hoping for! Recently, one user helped us to understand the root of this problem.
A translation consultant contacted me about a year ago with a new feature request for Paratext. She wrote, “There are so many project and resource windows on my screen. …
In Paratext 9, you can have multiple text collections open at the same time. Several users have contacted us to say that this is very useful, and they think we should tell people about this feature.
For instance, a translator working in India might want to use one text collection for English translations and a second text collection for translations in Indian languages. These two text collections can be used at the same time:
Because text collections can be large, it is often helpful to put them in autohide, especially if you have more than one text collection. To do this, right-click on the blue title bar and select “move to autohide”.
Now you can select a text collection from the right-hand autohide bar when you need it. If you do not need it, it is not in your way. In the following screen, the autohide bar is on the right, and each of the two icons in the autohide bar represents one text collection that has been moved to autohide:
When you need to use a text collection, select it from the right-hand autohide bar and it slides out so you can see it:
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…I must really emphasize how important Paratext has become to our project for work on the OT. We are scattered over several continents now, and it is awesome to have the most recent text always before us and to be able use the live feature which we now heavily rely on!!! Most of our work is done now online. Thanks for your work towards this project. —anonymous user
Paratext has a feature called Paratext Live that lets a group of users edit the same document at the same time, keeping their versions up to date on each computer as they work together. This can be used, for instance, when a group is discussing a text, allowing several people to edit the text and improve on each other’s changes, evaluating the result together before agreeing on the best translation. This is similar to the kind of collaborative editing found in editing environments like Google Docs.
Unfortunately, some performance limitations in the Paratext Live server have made this feature less useful than we wish. We have now written a new Paratext Live server that has important advantages over the earlier one:
Both Paratext 8 and Paratext 9 now use the new Paratext Live server. …
Paratext 9 has been out for seven months now, and it is clear from the feedback we received that most people who have upgraded are enjoying it. The upgrade path is extremely smooth since there is no migration process, allowing teams to upgrade their users one at a time as they feel ready. Now, as we patiently wait for everyone to upgrade, Paratext 9 is getting all the improvements that users like you have requested, while Paratext 8 is only in maintenance mode. Occasionally we discover users who are holding on tightly to Paratext 8, claiming that they’ll only move to Paratext 9 when someone forces them to. This is certainly not the result we were hoping for! Recently, one user helped us to understand the root of this problem.
A translation consultant contacted me about a year ago with a new feature request for Paratext. She wrote, “There are so many project and resource windows on my screen. …
In Paratext 9, you can have multiple text collections open at the same time. Several users have contacted us to say that this is very useful, and they think we should tell people about this feature.
For instance, a translator working in India might want to use one text collection for English translations and a second text collection for translations in Indian languages. These two text collections can be used at the same time:
Because text collections can be large, it is often helpful to put them in autohide, especially if you have more than one text collection. To do this, right-click on the blue title bar and select “move to autohide”.
Now you can select a text collection from the right-hand autohide bar when you need it. If you do not need it, it is not in your way. In the following screen, the autohide bar is on the right, and each of the two icons in the autohide bar represents one text collection that has been moved to autohide:
When you need to use a text collection, select it from the right-hand autohide bar and it slides out so you can see it:
…
…I must really emphasize how important Paratext has become to our project for work on the OT. We are scattered over several continents now, and it is awesome to have the most recent text always before us and to be able use the live feature which we now heavily rely on!!! Most of our work is done now online. Thanks for your work towards this project. —anonymous user
Paratext has a feature called Paratext Live that lets a group of users edit the same document at the same time, keeping their versions up to date on each computer as they work together. This can be used, for instance, when a group is discussing a text, allowing several people to edit the text and improve on each other’s changes, evaluating the result together before agreeing on the best translation. This is similar to the kind of collaborative editing found in editing environments like Google Docs.
Unfortunately, some performance limitations in the Paratext Live server have made this feature less useful than we wish. We have now written a new Paratext Live server that has important advantages over the earlier one:
Both Paratext 8 and Paratext 9 now use the new Paratext Live server. …