It is with great joy we announce to you the availability of Paratext 9.5! This release is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Paratext. On behalf of the entire development team, we hope that this software is a blessing to you in your work for God’s kingdom and glory.
Download Paratext 9.5
You can download Paratext 9.5Â from the downloads page today!
What’s New in Paratext 9.5?
Support for whitespaces and invisible characters*
Paratext 9.5 introduces better support for displaying and entering whitespace and invisible characters. Any project can turn the display of these characters on and off. Projects that use a variety of whitespace and invisible characters will benefit from opting into or “enabling” the feature.
This feature allows teams to view and edit whitespace and invisible characters in these areas:
- Text editor
- Wordlist
- Spell checking dialogs
- Results list
- Scripture Reference Settings
- Numbers Settings
- Character inventory
- Quotation Rules
- Before enabling the new whitespace and invisible characters feature in a project, all project members must upgrade to 9.5. As this changes the project data, it will no longer be backward compatible with 9.4 or previous versions.
- See this help topic: How do I enable whitespace and invisible characters for my project? for more info.
- SBA now includes support for Assignments and Progress tracking!
- Adds support for displaying figures in footnotes and sidebars.
- Scripture Reference Settings within SBA projects can now override the settings of the base project.
- Improved checking features, ensuring more accurate and efficient review processes.
- It is now possible to add extended notes and sidebars for added or replaced content.
- Base project additional books (GLO, etc.) are incorporated in a SBA project.
- Handling of whitespace and invisible characters is supported in a SBA project.
- Adds an option for the default location of extended note callers.
- SBA-specific spelling discussion notes can be created in the Wordlist.
- Improvements to extracting a Legacy Study Bible into an SBA.
- The appearance and behavior of inventory panels is now consistent with those of the Wordlist.
- Inventory panels can now be docked.
- Content approval is based on location, whether in verse text, non-verse text, or study content within SBA projects.
- Support for filtering to help users easily find and organize inventory items.
- Support for undo and redo actions.
- Added the ability to display multiple gloss languages in Biblical Terms windows.
- Added filter buttons to the Download/Install resources window.
- Simplified the process of creating and editing Interlinearizer settings.
- Added an “Unread and unresolved” filter to the Project notes list.
- Provided support for the new format of Flora, Fauna, and Realia in the Enhanced Resource Encyclopedia tab.
- Provided support for multi-language Flora, Fauna, and Realia.
- Added a Help link for apparatus abbreviation in GRK Source Language Text.
- Improved UI localization implementation.
- Improved merging changes for project data.
- Allowed changing inventories and settings for Transliteration projects.
- Added ability to automatically format references when Scripture Reference settings are updated.
- Provided a built-in Paratext annual survey invitation.
- Many bug fixes.
- Go to the Paratext menu > Help
- Expand to Full menus if necessary.
- Enable Automatically update Paratext OR
- Use Check for updates.