Unified Standard Format Markers (USFM) is a plain text markup widely used for encoding the digital text for scripture translations. It is the standard format applied to translations developed within Paratext.
USFM Documentation – https://ubsicap.github.io/usfm
Download a zip archive of the documentation for offline use (usfm-docs_3.0.1.zip)
USFM on Github – https://github.com/ubsicap/usfm
Github hosts the repository for maintenance of USFM documentation and Paratext stylesheets. Addition and change requests, questions, or other concerns can be posted to Issues.
Recent Issues or Change Requests
- closed#151 Proposal: Markup for non-vernacular words
- closed#150 USFM documentation error \v being a paragraph marker instead of character marker
- open#149 Linking attribute questions
- open#148 Default attribute shown with quotes, probably a mistake
- open#147 \LineSpacing description describes two completely different things
- closed#146 Improve search to include *all* markers?
- closed#145 Fix Makefile format
- open#144 ePub output
- open#143 Expand definition of \toc tags
- open#142 Problem with OccursUnder in usfm.sty for mte, mte1, and mte2
- closed#141 Update usfm stylesheet to support 12 columns to make it consistent
- closed#140 Update study bible stylesheet to support 8 column headers
- open#139 Study Bible stylesheet table headers only support 8 columns
- open#138 USFM documentation errors
- open#137 How to determine if a marker can occur under another marker
- closed#136 usfm_sb.sty - ip should not be valid in the middle of a chapter of Scripture
- closed#135 Fix typo in erqe marker name
- open#134 On \cat being a publishable, vernacular "character style"
- closed#133 Allow extended end notes to include the same markup as extended footnotes
- open#132 Documentation lacks example of Strong numbering in Glosssary
- open#131 Extend USFM marker \mi to \mi#
- open#130 Scope of \rem
- open#129 SFM specification clarification in USFM
- closed#128 Add table columns up to 12 to study Bible stylesheet
- open#127 No mention of footnotes in \c fields
- open#126 No mention of verse ranges/bridges
- open#125 Enable left-aligned table cells and column headings
- open#124 Document center-aligned table cells and column headings
- open#123 \fig ... \fig* usage cases
- closed#122 Add link-id and link-title to Attributes list for jmp