en_tm/translate/toc.yaml

title: "Table of Contents"
sections:
  - title: "Introduction"
    sections:
      - title: "Introduction to the Translation Manual"
        link: translate-manual
      - title: "Terms to Know"
        link: translate-terms
      - title: "What is Translation"
        link: translate-whatis
      - title: "More about Translation"
        link: translate-more
      - title: "How to Aim Your Bible Translation"
        link: translate-aim
  - title: "Defining a Good Translation"
    sections:
      - title: "The Qualities of a Good Translation"
        link: guidelines-intro
        sections:
          - title: "Create Clear Translations"
            link: guidelines-clear
          - title: "Create Natural Translations"
            link: guidelines-natural
          - title: "Create Accurate Translations"
            link: guidelines-accurate
          - title: "Create Church-Approved Translations"
            link: guidelines-church-approved
          - title: "Create Faithful Translations"
            link: guidelines-faithful
            sections:
              - title: "Son of God and God the Father"
                link: guidelines-sonofgod
              - title: "Translating Son and Father"
                link: guidelines-sonofgodprinciples
          - title: "Create Authoritative Translations"
            link: guidelines-authoritative
          - title: "Create Historical Translations"
            link: guidelines-historical
          - title: "Create Equal Translations"
            link: guidelines-equal
          - title: "Create Collaborative Translations"
            link: guidelines-collaborative
          - title: "Create Ongoing Translations"
            link: guidelines-ongoing
  - title: "Meaning-Based Translation"
    sections:
      - title: "The Translation Process"
        link: translate-process
        sections:
          - title: "Discover the Meaning of the Text"
            link: translate-discover
          - title: "Re-telling the Meaning"
            link: translate-retell
      - title: "Form and Meaning"
        link: translate-fandm
        sections:
          - title: "The Importance of Form"
            link: translate-form
          - title: "Levels of Meaning"
            link: translate-levels
      - title: "Literal Translations"
        link: translate-literal
        sections:
          - title: "Word for Word Substitution"
            link: translate-wforw
          - title: "Problems with Literal Translations"
            link: translate-problem
      - title: "Meaning-Based Translations"
        link: translate-dynamic
        sections:
          - title: "Translate for Meaning"
            link: translate-tform
  - title: "Before Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "First Draft"
        link: first-draft
      - title: "Choosing a Translation Team"
        link: choose-team
        sections:
          - title: "Translator Qualifications"
            link: qualifications
      - title: "Choosing What to Translate"
        link: translation-difficulty
      - title: "Choosing a Source Text"
        link: translate-source-text
        sections:
          - title: "Copyrights, Licensing, and Source Texts"
            link: translate-source-licensing
          - title: "Source Texts and Version Numbers"
            link: translate-source-version
      - title: "Decisions for Writing Your Language"
        link: writing-decisions
        sections:
          - title: "Alphabet/Orthography"
            link: translate-alphabet
          - title: "Alphabet Development"
            link: translate-alphabet2
      - title: "File Formats"
        link: file-formats
  - title: "How to Start Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "Help with Translating"
        link: translate-help
  - title: "Unlocked Bible Text"
    sections:
      - title: "The Original and Source Languages"
        link: translate-original
      - title: "Original Manuscripts"
        link: translate-manuscripts
      - title: "Structure of the Bible"
        link: translate-bibleorg
      - title: "Chapter and Verse Numbers"
        link: translate-chapverse
      - title: "Unlocked Literal Bible (ULB) and Unlocked Dynamic Bible (UDB) Formatting Signals"
        link: translate-formatsignals
      - title: "How to Use the ULB and UDB when Translating the Bible"
        link: translate-useulbudb
  - title: "Use the translationHelps when Translating"
    sections:
      - title: "Notes with Links"
        link: resources-links
      - title: "Using the translationNotes"
        link: resources-types
        sections:
          - title: "Connecting Statement and General Information in the Notes"
            link: resources-connect
          - title: "Notes with Definitions"
            link: resources-def
          - title: "Notes that Explain"
            link: resources-eplain
          - title: "Notes with Synonyms and Equivalent Phrases"
            link: resources-synequi
          - title: "Notes with Alternate Translations (AT)"
            link: resources-alter
          - title: "Notes that Clarify the UDB Translation"
            link: resources-clarify
          - title: "Notes that have Alternate Meanings"
            link: resources-alterm
          - title: "Notes with Probable or Possible Meanings"
            link: resources-porp
          - title: "Notes that Identify Figures of Speech"
            link: resources-fofs
          - title: "Notes that Identify Indirect and Direct Quotes"
            link: resources-iordquote
          - title: "Notes for Long ULB Phrases"
            link: resources-long
          - title: "Using translationWords"
            link: resources-words
          - title: "Using translationQuestions"
            link: resources-questions
  - title: "Just-in-Time Learning Modules"
    sections:
      - title: "Figures of Speech"
        sections:
          - title: "Figures of Speech"
            link: figs-intro
          - title: "Apostrophe"
            link: figs-apostrophe
          - title: "Doublet"
            link: figs-doublet
          - title: "Euphemism"
            link: figs-euphemism
          - title: "Extended Metaphor"
            link: figs-exmetaphor
          - title: "Hendiadys"
            link: figs-hendiadys
          - title: "Hyperbole"
            link: figs-hyperbole
          - title: "Idiom"
            link: figs-idiom
          - title: "Irony"
            link: figs-irony
          - title: "Litotes"
            link: figs-litotes
          - title: "Merism"
            link: figs-merism
          - title: "Metaphor"
            link: figs-metaphor
          - title: "Metonymy"
            link: figs-metonymy
          - title: "Parallelism"
            link: figs-parallelism
          - title: "Personification"
            link: figs-personification
          - title: "Predictive Past"
            link: figs-pastforfuture
          - title: "Rhetorical Question"
            link: figs-rquestion
          - title: "Simile"
            link: figs-simile
          - title: "Synecdoche"
            link: figs-synecdoche
      - title: "Grammar"
        sections:
          - title: "Grammar Topics"
            link: figs-grammar
          - title: "Abstract Nouns"
            link: figs-abstractnouns
          - title: "Active or Passive"
            link: figs-activepassive
          - title: "Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding"
            link: figs-distinguish
          - title: "Double Negatives"
            link: figs-doublenegatives
          - title: "Ellipsis"
            link: figs-ellipsis
          - title: "Generic Noun Phrases"
            link: figs-genericnoun
          - title: "Go and Come"
            link: figs-go
          - title: "Nominal Adjectives"
            link: figs-nominaladj
          - title: "Order of Events"
            link: figs-events
          - title: "Parts of Speech"
            link: figs-partsofspeech
          - title: "Possession"
            link: figs-possession
          - title: "Verbs"
            link: figs-verbs
          - title: "When Masculine Words Include Women"
            link: figs-gendernotations
          - title: "Word Order"
            link: figs-order
      - title: "Pronouns"
        sections:
          - title: "Pronouns"
            link: figs-pronouns
          - title: "First, Second or Third Person"
            link: figs-123person
          - title: "Exclusive and Inclusive 'We'"
            link: figs-exclusive
          - title: "Forms of You"
            link: figs-you
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Dual/Plural"
            link: figs-youdual
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Singular"
            link: figs-yousingular
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Formal or Informal"
            link: figs-youformal
          - title: "Forms of 'You' - Singular to a Crowd"
            link: figs-youcrowd
          - title: "Reflexive Pronouns"
            link: figs-rpronouns
          - title: "Pronouns - When to Use Them"
            link: writing-pronouns
      - title: "Sentences"
        sections:
          - title: "Sentence Structure"
            link: figs-sentences
          - title: "Sentence Types"
            link: figs-sentencetypes
            sections:
              - title: "Statements - Other Uses"
                link: figs-declarative
              - title: "Imperatives - Other Uses"
                link: figs-imperative
              - title: "Exclamations"
                link: figs-exclamations
      - title: "Quotes"
        sections:
          - title: "Quotations and Quote Margins"
            link: writing-quotations
          - title: "Direct and Indirect Quotations"
            link: figs-quotations
          - title: "Quote Markings"
            link: figs-quotemarks
          - title: "Quotes within Quotes"
            link: figs-quotesinquotes
      - title: "Writing Styles (Discourse)"
        sections:
          - title: "Writing Styles"
            link: writing-intro
          - title: "Background Information"
            link: writing-background
          - title: "Connecting Words"
            link: writing-connectingwords
          - title: "End of Story"
            link: writing-endofstory
          - title: "Hypothetical Situations"
            link: figs-hypo
          - title: "Introduction of a New Event"
            link: writing-newevent
          - title: "Introduction of New and Old Participants"
            link: writing-participants
          - title: "Parables"
            link: figs-parables
          - title: "Poetry"
            link: writing-poetry
          - title: "Proverbs"
            link: writing-proverbs
          - title: "Symbolic Language"
            link: writing-symlanguage
          - title: "Symbolic Prophecy"
            link: writing-apocalypticwriting
      - title: "Translation Issues"
        sections:
          - title: "Textual Variants"
            link: translate-textvariants
          - title: "Verse Bridges"
            link: translate-versebridge
      - title: "Unknowns"
        sections:
          - title: "Translate Unknowns"
            link: translate-unknown
          - title: "Copy or Borrow Words"
            link: translate-transliterate
          - title: "How to Translate Names"
            link: translate-names
          - title: "Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information"
            link: figs-explicit
          - title: "Making Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information Explicit"
            link: figs-explicitinfo
          - title: "When to Keep Information Implicit"
            link: figs-extrainfo
          - title: "Biblical Distance"
            link: translate-bdistance
          - title: "Biblical Volume"
            link: translate-bvolume
          - title: "Biblical Weight"
            link: translate-bweight
          - title: "Biblical Money"
            link: translate-bmoney
          - title: "Hebrew Months"
            link: translate-hebrewmonths
          - title: "Numbers"
            link: translate-numbers
          - title: "Ordinal Numbers"
            link: translate-ordinal
          - title: "Fractions"
            link: translate-fraction
          - title: "Symbolic Action"
            link: translate-symaction
      - title: "Biblical Imagery"
        sections:
          - title: "Biblical Imagery"
            link: biblicalimageryta
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Common Metonymies"
            link: bita-part2
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Common Patterns"
            link: bita-part1
            sections:
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Animals"
                link: bita-animals
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Body Parts and Human Qualities"
                link: bita-hq
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Farming"
                link: bita-farming
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Human Behavior"
                link: bita-humanbehavior
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Man-made Objects"
                link: bita-manmade
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Natural Phenomena"
                link: bita-phenom
              - title: "Biblical Imagery - Plants"
                link: bita-plants
          - title: "Biblical Imagery - Cultural Models"
            link: bita-part3