The Regional Translation Coordinator Pastor Joseph Nkwelle invited me to train 2 teams to do basic ParaTExt on their text and prepare the Gospels of Mark and Luke for publication. Even before now, there has been a need of such a training for several other teams in the region two of which are nearing the typesetting of the NT. Instead of visiting and working with each time individually, I decided to organize a workshop at the Bamenda Regional Training Center (BRTC) to bring all the teams together for this workshop. I also arranged for a typesetting staff to be present so that we can teach this course together and he learns more about ParaTExt 8. Also this was a good moment to introduce the teams to begin using ParaTExt 8.0. This way, they can begin to use the new features in version 8 to check their text especially to do consistency checking on their text.
23 people were present for this training that lasted for 4 full days.
Participants expressed that they had learned a lot and will be putting this to use.
This workshop was mostly hands on with the projects using their own data to work on things. This was particularly important as they are preparing to publish two gospels.
It was an opportunity to continue mentoring Eliot. I was particularly happy to see one lady I had been working very closely with from the Bakweri project in Buea step up and help others. This gives me joy to see those I have trained put the lessons to use and even help others.
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