Every part of the tool.

A verse editor that respects the work.

The center of Scriptorium is a single column of verses, set in Fraunces at a comfortable reading size. Click a verse to edit it in place — there is no separate editor pane, no modal, no roundtrip.

Inline USFM markup is recognized as you type. Wrap a phrase in \wj … \wj* to mark the words of Christ; mark poetry with \q1, \q2, and \qa; flag a quotation with \qt. The editor renders the formatting live and never asks you to leave for a markup panel.

Everything is keyboard-driven. Tab moves to the next verse, Shift+Tab goes back, Ctrl+S commits a revision, Ctrl+↑/↓ cycles workflow states.

Reviewer collaboration, in the file.

Reviewers attach comments to individual verses. Threads stay with the verse forever, but resolved threads collapse so the chapter view stays clean. A reviewer can mark a verse Revised when they're satisfied, which sends it back to the translator's queue.

Open comments appear in the verse margin as a small gold tick. Click it to expand the thread in a side panel — never a modal that hides the verse you're discussing.

Whole-Bible search, instant.

Search across every verse in your project — by exact phrase, by USFM tag, by workflow state, or by glossary term. Results stream as you type. Regex is allowed (and useful: \b(LORD|Lord)\b finds every Tetragrammaton rendering in seconds).

Search results are themselves a working surface: click a verse to jump there; use Cmd+K to refine without losing your place.

Hold a translation to itself.

The glossary stores the renderings you have committed to: covenant for בְּרִית, steadfast love for חֶסֶד, holy for ἅγιος. As you draft, Scriptorium underlines any verse where the source word appears but the preferred rendering doesn't — quietly, in gold.

Run the consistency scan to see every miss in one report. Each row links to the verse, the source word, and your current rendering. You can promote a variant ("loyal love") into the glossary as an allowed alternate, or rewrite the verse to fit.

Title page to bibliography.

A Bible is more than its text. Scriptorium has structured editors for every piece you will need: title page, copyright, dedication, foreword, preface, abbreviations, translator's notes, glossary (printed at the back, automatically), study guide, bibliography, and maps.

Each section is optional; each travels with the translation through export. The order, page-break behavior, and typographic treatment are all editable from the project's Layout page.

Hand it to your typesetter.

For a professional edition, you'll want a typesetter. Scriptorium exports the whole project as an IDML package — Adobe's interchange format — with paragraph and character styles already mapped for body, poetry, Words of Christ, drop caps, running heads, page numbers, and section headings.

Custom book selections, custom column rules, custom margins, and custom typographic treatment for the Tetragrammaton all survive the export. Your typesetter opens one file and the project is laid out; they tune kerning, you tune words.

Your file is safe.

Projects are stored as a single .scrp file on your computer — a SQLite database under the hood. Writes are atomic: a save either completes or it doesn't, and a crashed write is rolled back on launch.

Daily snapshots sit alongside the project file in a .snapshots/ folder you can copy to a thumb drive. Crash recovery is automatic; if Scriptorium quit unexpectedly, your last keystroke is restored on next launch.