Let's try to come to closure on the issue at hand. There is a request for quotation marks to be allowed to be text elements (not just markup) and for the standard to be changed to allow for continuation quotes.
To both of these there are suggested markup changes.
What is the proper forum for requesting and making changes to the OSIS standard? I took a look at "The OSIS Website" at bibletechnologies.net and I did not find it? Is it the OSIS Portal at http://whi.wts.edu/OSIS?
I think this discussion should move to that forum, if this is not the place.
Is there a defined process to make a formal request for enhancement? (e.g. bugzilla) I suggest that this request be made formally.
Is there a document that describes the principles by which suggestions for change to OSIS are evaluated? I also did not find any "Guiding Lights".
If not I suggest that it be created.
I think that things like the following would be appropriate for such a document.
Let me reiterate *some* principles of an editorial master (a document that has all the markup necessary to produce a writer's published work, from which all derivations are created):
1) The language of a document may differ from the language of the reader. The text of the document needs to be preserved in the language of the document.
2) Text should not be buried as an attribute of an element, but may be repeated there. This allows for text to be presented w/o using the markup for presentation. That is, just dumping all the text elements in the order they appear.
<date calendar="Gregorian" year="2004" month="2" day="5">5-2-04</date>
<money unit="talent">5</money>
3) Markup can be used as an assist to help a reader understand data in the text. It can also be used as an assist to help software understand content.
4) The intellectual property (IP) of a writer may include document presentation. There need to be markup to preserve IP. If this is not done in OSIS, then OSIS cannot be used as an authoring markup and the editorial master of a document will not be kept in OSIS.
External to such a markup system, a publication will have "control data" that is external to the document by which the document will be transformed for publication. This will include things like XML, and sword's conf files (what I call a control table).
The simple point is that if OSIS is not a sufficient standard for an editorial master, then the OSIS document will be derivative.
I would like the OSIS standard to be able to be used as an editorial master for Bibles and theological works.
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