On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Ben Morgan wrote:
I've been improving the layout of poetry in BPBible. Many Bibles
have poetry with two levels of lines, with one level more indented
than others. (If you don't know what I'm getting at, look at the
attached screenshot from BPBible)
When I first implemented this, I did it for the ESV.
The ESV marks this second (indented) level as l type="x-indent", and
doesn't mark the first at all.
It also has type="x-declares" for "Declares the Lord" type lines
which are indented even further.
Then I looked at the WEB. It does it differently.
It has l type="x-primary" for the unindented level and l type="x-
secondary" for the indented level.
Are there any other ways used to mark these lines?
Is there a standard way to mark these in OSIS? If not, I think there
should be as it is quite a common practice.
Ben,
Sorry for the late reply. I was so busy with my daughter's wedding
that SWORD stuff was put on hold. And a lot of stuff got missed.
I encoded the ESV. I freely used the x- types to map the markup I
found in the ESV source to be somewhat lossless. I was rather
inventive and was in no way trying to come up with a "standard" way of
doing something. I don't think we should use any of the x-attributes
as a standard way of doing markup, unless after discussion here we
agree to it and we document it in www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles.
With regard to OSIS, if there are short-comings, we should try to
influence the standard. This is a proper venue for how we at CrossWire
would like to work with OSIS.
Regarding the <l> element and indents here is what the manual has to
say:
l: The l element is used to mark separate lines in a lg (line group)
element. This will be most commonly used in the encoding of poetry.
The level attribute takes a positive integer value that indicates
which line in a line group is being encoded. This can be used in
processing to insure proper indentation of lines.
If I understand this right, the level attribute should be used to
indicate the depth of indentation. Perhaps level="1" and level not
being specified should mean the same thing. And ESV should be re-coded
to have it properly set.
(I'd like Chris' input!)
In Him,
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