diff --git a/checking/spelling/01.md b/checking/spelling/01.md index 5344f2c..4a66eb4 100644 --- a/checking/spelling/01.md +++ b/checking/spelling/01.md @@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ Discuss the words that are difficult to spell as a team. If the words have sound The names of people and places in the Bible can be difficult to spell because many of them are unknown in target languages. Be sure to include these in your spelling list. -Computers can be a great help for checking spelling. If you are working on a Gateway Language, a word processor may have a dictionary already available. If you are translating into an Other Language, you can use the find and replace feature to fix misspelled words. ParaTExt also has a spell check feature which will find all variant spellings of words. It will present these to you and then you can choose which spellings you have decided to use. +Computers can be a great help for checking spelling. If you are working on a Gateway Language, a word processor may have a dictionary already available. If you are translating into an Other Language, you can use the find and replace feature to fix misspelled words. diff --git a/checking/verses/01.md b/checking/verses/01.md index ecd5a13..a7d6330 100644 --- a/checking/verses/01.md +++ b/checking/verses/01.md @@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ It is important that your target language translation include all of the verses ### Checking for Missing Verses -In order to check your translation for missing verses, after a book has been translated, import the translation into ParaTExt. Then run the check for "chapter/verse numbers." ParaTExt will give you a list of everywhere in that book that it finds verses missing. You can then look at each of those places and decide if the verse is missing on purpose because of one of the three reasons above, or if it is missing by mistake and you need to go back and translate that verse. +* Look at the source text and your translation, and check the verse numbers to see that every verse in each chapter of the source text is also your translation. +* If any verse is missing, find out if it is missing on purpose because of one of the three reasons above, or if it is missing by mistake. +* If a verse is missing by mistake, check to see if it is missing because of a formatting error or if you need to go back and translate that verse. +* Make the correction.