On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Rev. Michael Paul Johnson wrote: > At 10:39 10-01-03 -0700, Chris Little wrote: > >OSIS handles everything on Michael's list, though some items are not > >addressed specifically (such as poetry/prose formatting, which would be > >done with style sheets). > > Poetry/prose formatting cannot be done properly just with style sheets. > To accurately represent a translation like the WEB or NIV that presents > text in poetry and prose format, you must be able to mark every section > as poetry or prose. In prose, you must mark paragraphs, and in poetry, > you also need to be able to distinguish between initial and subsequent > verses of poetry line sets. In GBF, this is done with <Pp>, <PP>, <CM>, > and <CL> tags. In XSEM, this is done with <p>, <linegroup>, and <line> > tags. In SIL SF, this is done with \p, \q, and \q2 tags. I am > disappointed that so many Bible study software packages simply discard > this information. The result is ugly poetry that often looks like it has > many capitalization errors in it.
Okay, OSIS does address "formatting" to this extent, but these aren't display formatting, strictly speaking, but marking of text units. OSIS has <p>, <lg>, and <l> tags corresponding to <p>, <linegroup>, and <line> from XSEM. However, <lg>/<l> may be used in marking either poetic lines or orthographic lines. Display formatting details, such as alignment, indentation, spacing between lines/paragraphs, etc. would all need to be handled with stylesheets using attributes such as type in OSIS. This includes marking different types of lines to define their degree or type of indentation. --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
