Getting Started

After installing Transcelerator, restart Paratext. When you start Transcelerator, it will load questions for the currently active project, so make sure that the active project is the Scripture translation you want to work on (not a resource project). If you have properly associated your Paratext project with the appropriate keyboard for entering vernacular text, this same keyboard will be activated when translating questions in Transcelerator.

To run Transcelerator, on Paratext's Tools menu, click Transcelerator.

The first time Transcelerator opens for a particular Paratext project, it will take a little extra time to do some one-time initialization. After that, it will open more quickly.

By default, Transcelerator initially tries to display the list of questions sorted so that the questions at the top are the ones that will give you "the most bang for the buck". If you start translating from the top down, you will probably find that you will quickly start to make pretty good progress with the help of Transcelerator's automated translation guessing logic. The longer and "harder" questions to translate will sort closer to the bottom of the list. Of course, you can translate the questions in any order and Transcelerator will do its best to learn as you work. If you want to sort the questions in some other order, you can click a column heading to sort on that column.