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11 December 2023 - Paratext
It is our great privilege to announce to you the availability of Paratext 9.4! On behalf of the entire development team, we hope that this software is a blessing to you in your work.
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You can download Paratext 9.4 from the downloads page today!What’s New in Paratext 9.4 – Videos
We have created a video series to demonstrate many of the new features in Paratext 9.4. You can view these videos here: Paratext 9.4 VideosWhat’s New in... read more
14 November 2023 - Paratext
A Biblical term may have multiple renderings
Preparing for a checking session, a consultant notices three different renderings for the Greek term ἀνεπίλημπτος (anepilēmptos) ‘beyond reproach’ and legitimately asks “What are the differences between these three?” When a single Biblical term has multiple approved renderings, it can be difficult for the translators and the consultant to be sure each approved rendering is valid. In addition, they want to be sure that... read more 23 August 2023 - Paratext
It is our great privilege to announce to you the availability of the Beta version of Paratext 9.4! On behalf of the entire development team, we hope that this software is a blessing to you in your work.
Download Paratext 9.4 Beta
You can download Paratext 9.4 Beta from the downloads page today!What’s New in Paratext 9.4 Beta – Videos
We have created a video series to demonstrate many of the new features in Paratext 9.4 Beta. You can view these videos... read more 22 August 2023 - Paratext
You can provide yourself or other Paratext users with a desktop icon that can instantly access and play all of the Paratext videos locally and allows searching for videos by topic or content. As videos are updated for newer versions of Paratext, those videos will automatically be updated in the background using a program called Resilio Sync. If you don’t want the computer to download new videos automatically, you only need one computer in your location to get the updates, and you can... read more
10 July 2023 - Paratext
The Paratext Newsletter: Sharing helpful info, updates, and announcements about Paratext
Paratext & PTXprint Training
Join us for the Paratext and PTXprint workshops! Registration is now open for both. Note: there is a separate registration form for each workshop.Paratext Workshop (Oct 9 – 11: Before BT Conference)
This workshop expects participants to be capable users of Paratext, and will NOT offer instruction for... read more 05 June 2023 - Webonary
This newsletter introduces a new online course, LEX201 Dictionary-Making & Lexicography Intermediate Course.
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05 June 2023 - Paratext
Checking parallel passages is a crucial task for Bible translation teams. It is important to preserve both the commonalities and the distinctiveness of the wording in these parallel passages so that the perspectives of the original authors and the accuracy of the text is preserved. It is most helpful to do this while viewing the texts side by side in the Parallel Passage Tool.
In response to user feedback, recent updates to Paratext (9.3 and following) give users the option to... read more
18 May 2023 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.13.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlight is allowing formatting of short subsection level elements on a case-by-case basis.
If you have not... read more
21 April 2023 - XLingPaper
I recently got a new laptop with Windows 11. Producing the PDF (via XeLaTeX) always took a long time, even on a small document. Remember that we note that XeLaTeX takes longer to run the first time you run it on a new computer and whenever you add or remove fonts on your system. In this case, however, XeLaTeX always took a long time.
It turns out that I needed to invoke the XMLmind XML Editor using the “Run as administrator” option. Once I did that, XeLaTeX was able to update its information... read more
03 March 2023 - Webonary
Updates on the Dictionary-Making and Lexicography online course and the new upgrade to Webonary
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03 November 2022 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.12.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.42.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlights are:
Enable control of the right indent of... read more
02 June 2022 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.11.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.41.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This is a maintenance version that contains some improvements to the documentation and bug fixes.
If you have not previously installed... read more
12 January 2022 - FLExTrans
Latest Version of FLExTrans
Please go to this link now for downloading the latest version of FLExTransPrevious versions of FLExTrans as zip files.
(FLExTrans 3.2.1 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2.1 - November 4, 2021 Bug fixes (FLExTrans 3.2 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2 - May 14, 2021 Support for doing syntax parsing and... read more 12 January 2022 - FLExTrans
Installation Instructions
The instructions have moved to this page. 13 December 2021 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.10.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.40.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This is a maintenance version that contains some improvements to the documentation and bug fixes.
If you have not previously installed... read more
04 November 2021 - FLExTrans
FLExTrans Documentation
Here's some documentation on 'Getting Started', using the Sense Linker and Live Rule Tester tools and a tutorial on writing transfer rules. This documentation is also in the FLExTrans Documentation folder in the FlexTools 2.0 install folder. Refer to Ron's thesis, A Linguist-Friendly Machine Translation System for Low-Resource Languages for a detailed description of the system. Ron welcomes your emails... read more 30 June 2021 - XLingPaper
The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team announced today that there are new versions of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium, and Andika fonts. Many of us use one or more of these fonts. They say:
Note that this is a major upgrade. This may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and some features have been removed. Please do not assume that you can replace version 5 with version 6 with no resulting changes to your publications.
A couple of other things to note:
They do not... read more
04 May 2021 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.9.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.39.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.The main highlights are:
Add ability to control the label for a... read more
09 November 2020 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.8.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.38.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.The main highlights are:
Add a way to use content control to... read more
04 August 2020 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.7.5 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlights are:
Allow XLingPaper to work on Mac OS X 10.15+ (Catalina).
Allow XLingPaper to use Charis SIL version 5.000 with graphite and font... read more