ParaTExt 8

I have setup ParaTExt 8 on about 25 laptops for 11 language projects. One remarkable thing is that I not had any difficulty at all in running the setup. One particular computer will not accept 7.5 but ParaTExt 8 installed smoothly. So these teams have all migrated to ParaTExt 8 and have had some training to use it and are using ParaTExt 8.0 successfully except for the slowness issue which has just been addressed by that updated. At least I downloaded the update and tried in my computer and it running well now.

Recently, I was working with one of the projects as we process their text as they prepare to go for typesetting. They are really taking advantage of the new features in ParaTExt 8 especially those that help in running basic checks, Wordlists, Key terms and Parallel passage checks. One of the translator (Christian Alomofor point on the screen) is also an exegete for other languages in the cluster. He is very happy to learn various tools in ParaTExt and sees how this prunes their work and now wants to encourage the teams he works with to begin using the checks and don't wait to introduce the checks at the very end. This is what I have been promoting and pushing over the years because when I train translators my expectation is that exegetes/consultants should enforce the use of various ParaTExt tools since they are in contact more often.