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
- open#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
- closed#98 Is the spacing wrong in footnote format examples?
- closed#97 Some small fixes needed for Paratext
- closed#96 Allow broader use of \xt (update xt OccursUnder list)
- closed#95 ca cp | va vp : specification allows standalone usage? (va with no v?, etc)
- closed#94 Wrong link landing for characters in syntax notes/general syntax
- closed#93 Links are too light
- closed#92 Fix trivial typo in release notes (3.0)
- closed#91 Fix USFM docs for \esb - should not occur after \v
- closed#90 XXA-XXG in Identification section.
- closed#89 \pc marker in \peripheral materials
- closed#88 Small typo (scrloc)
- open#87 Newlines
- open#86 Encodings and \ide
- closed#85 Formal grammar
- open#84 Footnote within chapter label?
- closed#83 Using \rem in context anywhere in a USFM file?
- open#82 Some thoughts on cross-references, especially for non-Roman scripts
- open#81 Word level attributes markup for words within \wj ...\wj*
- open#80 The chapter label marker \cl and languages where # precedes the word for "Chapter"?
- open#79 Corner case usage for \va_#\va* (or even \vp_#\vp*)
- open#78 Nesting of \+add ...\+add* within a glossary word ?
- open#77 Roman numerals in historic Bible versions - no markers defined in USFM
- open#76 Chapter label (before \c 1) and the 5 major sections in the Psalms - relative position?
- open#75 Chapter label with a cross-reference note: Is this allowed?
- closed#74 Correct docs for \fe
- open#73 No defined limit on # fields