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
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
ore likely to get the results you want by NOT putting the
quote mark in the text itself.
Todd
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:17 PM
> To: Todd Tillinghast; 'Patrick Durusau'
> Cc: [EMA
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
>
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
> Just having a "standard" way to turn off the unwanted quotation mark
> generation currently associated with and would be a
> much-welcomed change to OSIS. It would also save me a lot of work.
>
> At 04:12 19-03-04, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> >Michael and Patrick,
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