📄️ Drafting and Editing (1.1)
1.1 My Tasks (Project Plan and Progress)
📄️ Understanding USFMs – Intro (1.2.1)
In this video you learn all about how Paratext uses special tags called USFMs. The tags
📄️ Adding markers in standard view (1.2.2a)
This video looked at how to insert Unified Standard Format markers or USFMs in standard view. Standard view shows the USFM markers, but they are small and grey. This view is recommended for ordinary work when drafting and editing a translation. In this view there are some helps for entering the right marker.
📄️ How to work with USFMs in Formatted View (1.2.2b)
In this video we changed to Formatted view and learnt about adding and removing USFM styles here.
📄️ How to use Basic View (1.2.2c)
In this video we learnt how to work in Basic view.
📄️ Unformatted View (1.2.2d)
In this video we look at Unformatted View.
📄️ Preview (1.2.2e)
In this video we learn about the view called Preview.
📄️ Backslash key (1.2.3)
In this video you will learn that F5 is an alternative way to type backslash. Backslash is an important key in Paratext because it starts every USFM tag, and opens the menu of markers in Standard view and Formatted view.
📄️ Adding verse numbers (1.2.4)
In this video we will learn the best way to insert verse numbers.
📄️ Non-biblical USFMs (1.2.5)
In this video, we will learn about how to mark non-Biblical text. Translators often include extra text in their Bible translations to introduce a book, indicate the start of a different topic in an epistle, indicate the start of a different topic in an epistle, or a different event in narrative, etc.
📄️ Show by chapter (1.3a)
In this video we will learn how to view more than one chapter at a time in a Paratext window. When we open a project or resource in Paratext, by default it only shows us the current chapter.
📄️ Zooming In and Out (1.3b)
In this video we will learn how to change the size of text in a Paratext window panel.
📄️ Adding Paragraphs (1.3c)
This video was created in Paratext 8 but applies equally to Paratext 9. In this video we learn there are a few places where you must insert a paragraph marker.
📄️ Footnote and Cross References - Intro (1A.3)
In this video we will learn how to insert a footnote, and how to open and close the Footnotes pane. As with many features, there is more than one way to insert a footnote.
📄️ Book Introductions (1A.6)
Many translation projects add introductions to each book of the Bible. In this video, I will show you how to make a basic book introduction that will be adequate for most projects.
📄️ USM book names (5.1)
In this video we learn about some special USFM markers which contain different versions of the name of the Bible book for various purposes.
📄️ Find and Replace (5.2)
To search for a particular word in a project or resource,