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Paratext 9.2

Course Manual: (English)

Table of Contents

Paratext Course Introduction

• 1: Introduction
  • 1.1: Goal
  • 1.2: Course Objectives
  • 1.3: Course Plan

Stage 1 – Drafting

• 2: OD – Organising your desktop
  • 2.1: Load the program
  • 2.2: Open a saved layout
  • 2.3: Create a new text layout
    • 2.3.1: Open and arrange the windows
    • 2.3.2: Save the layout
  • 2.4: Delete a text combination
  • 2.5: Open resources in a Text collection
  • 2.6: Open an Enhanced Resource
  • 2.7: Open a dictionary
  • 2.8: Working with the Source language text
• 3: PP1 – Project plan and progress
  • 3.1: View tasks that need to be done
  • 3.2: Identify the next task
  • 3.3: Mark a task as complete
    • 3.3.1: Mark a book task as completed
    • 3.3.2: Mark a chapter task as completed
  • 3.4: Checks
    • 3.4.1: Checks – setup required (Administrator)
    • 3.4.2: Checks – issues
    • 3.4.3: Postpone check
• 4: KD – Keyboarding your draft
  • 4.1: Go to a Biblical verse
  • 4.2: Check that the project is editable
  • 4.3: Changing the view
  • 4.4: Typing special characters
  • 4.5: Adding text in another marker – title or introduction
  • 4.6: Add paragraph breaks
  • 4.7: Saving your work
  • 4.8: Insert Footnotes
  • 4.9: Send/receive
    • 4.9.1: Send/receive this project to the Internet
    • 4.9.2: Send/receive to the Internet
    • 4.9.3: Send/receive to a USB stick to backup your data
    • 4.9.4: Send/Receive Again
  • 4.10: Moving your cursor efficiently
  • 4.11: Recall:
• 5: BC1 – Basic checks
  • 5.1: Running checks from the project plan
  • 5.2: Running the checks from the menus
    • 5.2.1: « Chapter/ Verse »
    • 5.2.2: Markers check
• 6: PP2 – Project progress
  • 6.1: Make sure the progress of the plan is up to date
  • 6.2: Change an assignment
  • 6.3: Produce a progress report
  • 6.4: View team progress charts

Stage 2: Team Checking

• 7: PN – Proper Names
  • 7.1: Run the Biblical Terms tool
    • 7.1.1: Open list of terms
    • 7.1.2: Choose your reference text as a comparative text
    • 7.1.3: Change various settings
    • 7.1.4: Filter for names
  • 7.2: Guess Renderings for proper nouns
  • 7.3: Adapt names
    • 7.3.1: Enter the changes for the individual letters (or letter clusters)
    • 7.3.2: Then revise and approve the Adapted Name
  • 7.4: Ensure your text is consistent
  • 7.5: Add an alternative rendering
  • 7.6: Dealing with verses that do not have the name translated
  • 7.7: Recall
• 8: SP – Spell Checking
  • 8.1: Configure the word list
    • 8.1.1: Approve the spelling of common words
    • 8.1.2: Check the words that Paratext thinks are incorrect
    • 8.1.3: Check similarly spelled words
  • 8.2: Spell checking – from the text
    • 8.2.1: Making corrections
  • 8.3: Spell checking – current book
  • 8.4: Spell checking – from the wordlist
    • 8.4.1: Using the checks
    • 8.4.2: All checks
    • 8.4.3: Missing Capitals
    • 8.4.4: Single Character Typos
    • 8.4.5: Unusual Letter Combinations
    • 8.4.6: Diacritic Errors
    • 8.4.7: Common Typos
    • 8.4.8: Unknown Morphology
    • 8.4.9: Find incorrectly joined or split words
    • 8.4.10: Correct a word which was incorrectly marked
  • 8.5: Spelling discussion note
• 9: GL – Glossary
  • 9.1: Open the Biblical Terms tool
  • 9.2: Add an entry
  • 9.3: Link an existing entry
  • 9.4: View the glossary
  • 9.5: Edit an entry – in the GLO book
  • 9.6: Edit an entry – in the Biblical Terms
  • 9.7: Add a Biblical Term
  • 9.8: Recall
• 10: BT – A 4-Step process for consistent Biblical Terms
  • 10.1: Open the Biblical terms rending window
  • 10.2: A: Find all the ways you have rendered this term
    • 10.2.1: Find the terms for the current verse
    • 10.2.2: Add another rendering
    • 10.2.3: Find other verses in the current book with the same Biblical term
    • 10.2.4: Add renderings from the other verses
    • 10.2.5: Dealing with verses that do not use the term
  • 10.3: B: Identify the best term
  • 10.4: C: Reject all the others
  • 10.5: D: Document the reason for the change
    • 10.5.1: If you need more than one rendering
    • 10.5.2: Clean up other books (as time permits)
    • 10.5.3: Add the Biblical terms notes — ongoing discussion
    • 10.5.4: Add the decision to the renderings description
  • 10.6: Add a term – from the source language text
  • 10.7: Add a term – from reference text search
• 11: MP – Compare a word or phrase
  • 11.1: Compare a word of phrase – from the text
  • 11.2: Compare using a Word of Phrase from the Biblical Terms tool
• 12: BC2 – Basic Checks
  • 12.1: Confirm the setup
  • 12.2: Using inventories to setup checks
  • 12.3: Characters
  • 12.4: Punctuation
  • 12.5: Matched Pairs
  • 12.6: Repeated words
  • 12.7: Capitalization
  • 12.8: Making minor corrections
    • 12.8.1: Review
• 13: FC – Formatting checks
  • 13.1: Using the checklists – generic
  • 13.2: Using checklist – Section headings
  • 13.3: Paragraph breaks
  • 13.4: Layout and indents
  • 13.5: Add USFMs to format special text
• 14: PD – Printing Drafts
  • 14.1: Create a PDF file
  • 14.2: Print a PDF
  • 14.3: Copy PDF file to a USB stick
• 15: UN – Using Notes
  • 15.1: Different types of project notes
    • 15.1.1: Setup additional note types
  • 15.2: Using notes
    • 15.2.1: Inserting a project note
    • 15.2.2: Add comments to an existing note
    • 15.2.3: Assign a note to someone
    • 15.2.4: Apply notes to multiple projects
    • 15.2.5: Reattach note
    • 15.2.6: Resolve a note
    • 15.2.7: Delete notes
  • 15.3: Open a Notes List
    • 15.3.1: Notes window toolbar
    • 15.3.2: Notes list filter
      • 15.3.2.1: Define a new filter
      • 15.3.2.2: Save a filter
  • 15.4: Add comments from a notes window
  • 15.5: Print a notes report

Stage 3: Preparing for the Consultant check

• 16: BT1 – Draft a Back Translation
  • 16.1: Create a new project for the back translation
  • 16.2: Draft your back translation
  • 16.3: Mark the chapter as Finished
  • 16.4: When a change is made to your project
    • 16.4.1: View the differences for outdated verses
    • 16.4.2: Move to the next differences
  • 16.5: Check your project plan
  • 16.6: Back translation verse check in project plan
  • 16.7: Back translation status complete in project plan
  • 16.8: Learning task
• 17: BT2 – Interlinearize a project
  • 17.1: Configure the project interlinearizer
  • 17.2: Correct the interlinearized text
  • 17.3: Translate/gloss a phrase
  • 17.4: Add extra words
  • 17.5: Specify the morphology – break a word into morphemes
  • 17.6: Approve and Export the text
  • 17.7: Help
• 18: CT – Compare Text
  • 18.1: Mark Point in History
  • 18.2: Compare Two Versions
• 19: BC3 – Basic checks 3
  • 19.1: Unmatched pairs of Punctuation
    • 19.1.1: Setup – inventory
    • 19.1.2: Run the check
  • 19.2: References
  • 19.3: Numbers check
  • 19.4: Quotation rules
  • 19.5: Quotation check
  • 19.6: Quoted text

Stage 4: Consultant Visit

• 20: Collaboration tools
  • 20.1: Paratext Live
    • 20.1.1: Send/receive
    • 20.1.2: Connect to the same network
    • 20.1.3: Start Paratext Live
    • 20.1.4: Sharing changes from Tools
    • 20.1.5: End the Paratext Live session

Stage 5 / Stage 3 UBS: Review by the community

• 21: PPR: Progress report
  • 21.1: Check your plan
  • 21.2: Produce team progress chart
• 22: BTR: Biblical key terms report
  • 22.1: Biblical terms tool
  • 22.2: Save the list to a file
  • 22.3: Other ways to identify renderings
    • 22.3.1: Sort on terms notes
    • 22.3.2: Find terms with text in the rendering description

Stage 6 / 4 UBS: Finalising for Publication

• 23: Finalising for Publication
  • 23.1: Choose illustrations and write captions
    • 23.1.1: Download a folder of searchable images
    • 23.1.2: Test various searches
  • 23.2: Add illustrations and captions
  • 23.3: Verify all checks are complete
    • 23.3.1: Current book
    • 23.3.2: Several books
    • 23.3.3: Word list checks
  • 23.4: Proper Names final check
  • 23.5: Numbers, money, weights and measures
  • 23.6: Formatting checks
• 24: Finalising for Publication – extra tasks for New Testament
  • 24.1: Map names
  • 24.2: Draft Introduction to the NT/Bible
  • 24.3: Verify all checks are complete
    • 24.3.1: Current book
    • 24.3.2: Several books
    • 24.3.3: Word list checks
  • 24.4: Proper Names final check
  • 24.5: Numbers, money, weights and measures
  • 24.6: Formatting checks
  • 24.7: Check and link glossary entries
  • 24.8: Enter Publication Information
  • 24.9: Check parallel passages
• 25: PP – Compare Parallel Passages
  • 25.1: Open the Parallel passages window
  • 25.2: Display source texts
  • 25.3: Select comparative texts
  • 25.4: Filters
  • 25.5: Compare the passages
  • 25.6: To correct the text
  • 25.7: Copying a text
  • 25.8: Mark the passage as checked
  • 25.9: Passages which have changed
  • 25.10: Compare the text as you translate
  • 25.11: To see a third passage

Appendix: : Special text
Appendix: : Three letter abbreviations
Appendix: : Common USFM Markers