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#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
- closed#121 Add NEST to OccursUnder list for xt
- open#120 \rb.... \rb* annotation
- open#119 USFM test documents
- closed#118 Fix spelling in docs & stylesheet
- open#117 Clean up and/or clarify quotes usage
- open#116 Allow pmo after b
- closed#115 White space after verse number/range
- closed#114 Documentation sample for fv should use \+fv
- closed#113 \jmp \Attributes
- closed#112 Regexes for linking should allow book ranges
- closed#111 `fv` marker uses the "Use" description from `fp`
- open#110 Peripheral Attributes for \w
- open#109 Required ref="..." attribute for \fig only makes sense in scripture text.
- closed#108 usfm_sb.sty calls esb a paragraph style
- closed#107 picture set bottom-left pushes text to right hand column, set top-right it vanishes.
- closed#106 Clarify Stylesheet readme: Multiple markers in an OccursUnder
- closed#105 Fix name of sts marker
- closed#104 Add missing line break in sty/README.md
- closed#103 Cross reference example
- closed#102 Improve \toc3 example
- closed#101 Question on Footnotes and Cross Refs
- closed#100 Reduce the size of \q# poetry indents in stylesheets
- closed#99 Inquiry into missing number