These observations came to light earlier today while I was doing a rebuild of the Norwegian Go Bible, so I decided to check the Sword module as well, even though it was not derived from that, AFIK.
Visually, there is little difference between an mdash (U+2014) and a horizontal bar (U+2015), just a small difference in length. I would plumb for the horizontal bar, which at least has the advantage that this codepoint can be displayed by my Sony Ericsson K750i, whereas an mdash can't. -- David Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for speedy response, Trevor. > > Not bad for someone suffering New York to London jetlag, eh. ;-) > >> Just to clarify my observation, the tokens were not plain hyphens, but a >> "hyphen wrapped within parentheses". i.e. if I wrap the token in quotes >> here, "(-)". > > Okay. It wasn't clear to me that the parentheses were intended as part of > the token itself. > >> This just looks as though it was unintended, and is therefore most likely >> to >> be an artefact. >> >> Here are some examples: >> >> Gen 13:10 Da så Lot ut over landet, og han så at hele Jordan-sletten >> like >> til Soar overalt var rik på vann, som Herrens have, som Egyptens >> land(-)det >> var før Herren hadde ødelagt Sodoma og Gomorra. >> >> Gen 14:6 og horittene på deres fjell(-)Se'r-fjellene(-)like til El-Paran >> ved >> utkanten av ørkenen. > > As I read those examples it looks to me as if the multi-character token is > intended to be an n-/m-dash. They offset parenthetical comments or at > least that is how I read the Norwegian with my Swedish eyes. (A real > Norwegian or Swede might say otherwise, of course.) It could be that they > are marking the inclusion of intra-text notes. > > Regards, Trevor > > <>< Re: deemed! > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Den-Norsk-Bibelen---possible-digitization-artefacts-%28-%29-tp18422148p18423839.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
