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2.2 October 2008

Marker Additions

·Added character markers xot...xot* and xnt...xnt* for uniquely marking target references to OT and NT passages (use of these markers is optional)
·Added iqt...iqt to mark (scripture) quotations appearing in the introduction.

Marker Revisions

·imte# now includes an optional numeric variable (multiple levels).
·No-break space should now be marked using ~ (tilde), not !$

2.1 April 2007

Marker Additions

·Added \ili for marking introduction list items.
·Reviewed and finalized Peripheral content markup:
oAdded new back matter books CNC, GLO, TDX, NDX.
oAdded INT book for scripture division Introductions.
oUpdated scheme for marking content divisions in FRT, INT, BAK, OTH
oAdded various new content division markers.

Marker Revisions

·Finalized Study Bible Content markup.
·Reviewed and finalized Peripheral content markup (see "Marker Additions" above).
·Changed \rq...\rq* from paragraph to character level markup.
·Change \ca...\ca* from paragraph to character level markup.

2.05 June 2006

Marker Additions

·Added \rq for marking inline quotation references.

2.04 October 2005

Marker Additions

·Added \toc3 for providing the standard abbreviation for a book.

2.03 August 2005

Marker Additions

·Added \toc1 and \toc2 for providing and marking long and short table of contents texts.
·Added \fl for marking footnote "label" text items.
·Added \fp for marking footnote additional paragraphs.

2.0 October 2004

The following sections outline changes in USFM from 1.53 to 2.0.

Marker Revisions

·Removed \pdi and \pde, and substitute with embedded text markup (under additions, below)
·Removed \wr ...\wr*. This was really a duplicate of \w ...\w* used for marking words in the scripture text which are included in the wordlist.
·Removed \ps. This is used in conjunction with \nb to indicate that the paragraph spans the chapter boundary. It should be sufficient to just start the new chapter with \nb and use the appropriate paragraph marker for the previous chapter (\p, \m etc.)

Marker Additions

·Add character style \em ...\em* for "emphasis".
·In Peripherals:
oAdd \intro section to Front Matter (in addition to Preface).
oAdd \maps (Maps Index) section to Back Matter.
oParatext will be adjusted to include predefined "standard" books for FRT, BAK, and OTH rather than using the book names XXA, XXB, and XXC for these materials.
·Add \sr for marking the text references range listed under a section heading \s.
·Add the following markers for "embedded text" (see example references – not all versions mark these items the same).
o\pm - Embedded text paragraph
o\pmo - Embedded text opening
o\pmc - Embedded text closing
o\pmr - Embedded text refrain
o\qm# - Embedded text poetic line
·Add character style \pro ...\pro* for indicating pronunciation (in CJK texts).
·Add character style \wj ...\wj* for marking words of Jesus.