linebreak means verse number change 1 empty line means a linebreak 2 empty lines means a paragraph break 4 spaces/1 tab means verses the rest of the markup is left as is all lines not starting with usfm tags are counted as verses to not count one line as a verse, have it start with '\ ' in commentaries, it is the opposite : mark with '\ ' the lines that start a verse

if not in commentary mode, any ' \ ' string will be simply deleted

3 usfm files:

• tables with tibetan, phon, w2w
• litteral translation
• standard version

https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/sutras/heart_sutra_c5.pdf https://www.institutvajrayogini.fr/pdf/soutra-du-coeur.pdf