On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM, David Haslam<d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > > DM is correct - I just checked four different printed editions of the KJV in > our house, and they all have Pilcrows as part of the text. One of them had > a distinctly different typeface appearance for this character, but it was > definitely there in all the right places. > > It may be noted in passing that a majority of digital versions of the KJV on > the world wide web actually omit the Pilcrows, which means that, in this > respect at least, they are not being as faithful as they should. Probably > these are also editions which don't use italics for the interpolated words.
Do these same electronic sources actually display the verse-as-paragraph typesetting of the KJV or do they use the pilcrow characters to delineate typeset paragraphs? I've seen that done before with the KJV, though very infrequently. --Greg > > In the book "The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611) - Its > Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representatives" by F.H.A. Scrivener (1884), > I could not find any reference to pilcrows, nor even a hint about these in > the section (IV) about "Its punctuation". > > -- David > > > David Haslam wrote: >> >> And if you didn't already know, the name of this symbol is the Pilcrow. >> >> The pilcrow sign is ¶ (U+00B6). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow >> The section sign is § (U+00A7). See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign >> >> Enjoy learning (I do)! >> >> - David >> >> DM Smith-5 wrote: >>> >>> Brian J. Dumont wrote: >>>> I'm using KJV Beta (2.4), and have noticed quite a few paragraph >>>> markers (¶) which show up. See Num 16:12 for one example. >>>> >>>> Shouldn't these be replaced with osis markup to denote paragraphs? >>> >>> >>> No, they are part of the text of the KJV. >>> >>> In Him, >>> DM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/KJV-Beta-issue-tp23962991p23969487.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 _______________________________________________ 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
