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#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
- 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)
- closed#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