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December 10, 2019

Improved Custom Layout – PA 6.1

Publishing Assistant 6.1 will provide a significantly improved and more flexible interface for creating and configuring custom page layouts.

This update focuses on 2 major areas:

An improved interface for creating and defining the content for page frames.
More flexible options for organizing multiple marker types within a single frame.

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December 10, 2019

USFM 3 Support – PA 6.1

Scripture translation projects working in Paratext 9 can choose to use new and updated USFM markup available in USFM 3. Publishing Assistant 6.1 has added support for USFM 3.

This article presents a summary of new USFM 3 markup which you may encounter when typesetting a project from Paratext 9 (or newer). It is not an exhaustive summary of USFM 3 changes, but focuses on the changes and additions which will be of particular interest to a Bible typesetter.

For a complete list of changes in USFM, please refer to the release notes found in the online USFM documentation.

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December 10, 2019

What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1 Beta

Last updated: May19, 2020

General Improvements

An improved and more flexible interface for creating and configuring custom page layout configurations. (PA-1343)
Improvements for how \xt fields are broken into multiple lines. (PAS-1720)
Allow a user to specify a bottom inset spacing of zero for the notes frame. (PAS-1722)
Change tables (changes.txt, headerChanges.txt, captionChanges.txt, finalChanges.txt, undoChanges.txt) now run an a fully Unicode aware environment.

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Improved Custom Layout – PA 6.1

USFM 3 Support – PA 6.1

What’s New in Publishing Assistant 6.1 Beta

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