I agree with all the points that John makes; these things do require adequate support in SWORD.
I wish to make one additional observation from my reading of the USFM Reference and email discussions with Studge, as well as seeing how things are in the real world of USFM files for many projects. For poetry there can be two kinds of "paragraph" breaks in USFM. \b is a line break (for poetry) that does not reset the text to the left margin. \p is a line break (for either prose or poetry) that resets the following text to the left margin. There are other differences too. \b should never have text following on the same line. "No text should follow this marker, and it should not be used before or after titles to indicate white-space." In contrast... \p optionally may have text on the same line. *\p(_text...)* Normal paragraph. Followed immediately by a space and paragraph text, or by a new line and a verse marker. For poetry passages, the translator should use \p to terminate the poetry format, where the subsequent text is prose (e.g. narrative). Nevertheless, many translators using Paratext mistakenly use \p between stanzas where "best practice" (and the USFM Reference) would enjoin them to have used \b We need to recognize this, and make allowances accordingly. David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Sword-support-of-indents-and-line-breaks-tp4652140p4652141.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
