[sword-devel] I am new here

2004-03-20 Thread Catalin Nicolaes Ravaru
Please, tell me: the diaspora.zip, mkfastmod.exe, mod2vpl.exe, vpl2mod.exe and uconv.zip are unavailable for the moment ?  I have tried to download them in vain. I am new, and I don't know what do I need to write a module -- for a new Bible. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED].   Yours sincerely

[sword-devel] quick question on version

2004-03-20 Thread Bruce Bramkamp
Mr. Freedman,   Being nowhere near your knowledge level on preservation and integrity of text, but wanting to know I'm using the best possible version, -could you recommend a "best" english translation of Tanakh? Have read some of your posts on sword-devel and you seem to be an authority on

[sword-devel] What is markup?

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, I am trying to understand why you think by putting quote marks "in the text" rather than in an attribute makes the quote mark any more or less a part of the "Bible text". If I were to encode a Bible at the character level as follows: ... vs In the... Are the characters "In the" any mo

[sword-devel] RE: [spam] RE: OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, > 1. I want all quotation punctuation to be included verbatim in the > text, not markup, of the OSIS document. I don't want any punctuation, > including quotation marks, to be handled as a rendering issue. > In an XML document everything is markup. Are you making a distinction betwee

RE: [Fwd: [sword-devel] Re: [osis-editors] OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated]

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, I think you should view the character within the "n" attribute as a part of the text AND a way to override the default behavior. I think that overriding the default with nothing and then putting the quote mark in the text itself is an unfortunate direction and makes the quote mark no mor

[sword-devel] RE: OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, > > I disagree. The rendering process should never add any punctuation due > to the q element when the n="" parameter is specified. The rendering > process should be free to decide how to render Jesus words , i. e. the > same as normal text, red letters, bold, dark purple, or anything >

RE: [Fwd: Re: [sword-devel] Re: [osis-editors] OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated]

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, > In my experience, the types of quotations that are rendered > differently in print (depending on stylistic preferences) are: > > * Direct quotations of Jesus. These would be quotes using the element. > > * Old Testament quotes in the New Testament. > I believe as of OSIS 2.1 the

RE: [Fwd: [sword-devel] Re: [osis-editors] OSIS 2.0.1 modules updated]

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Tillinghast
Michael, I think you will find that in the majority of cases that you will be using milestone containers rather than containers because quotes often cross other hierarchies, so the use of milestone exclusively is not much of a loss anyway. However, I would still recommend AGAINST to cause ther