[osis-core] Element Review: <reading>

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> Is the purpose for reading to:
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> allow for The Amplified Bible
>
> or for notations like 2 thes 2:13
> which most texts render aparXA as the contracted ap' (apo) arXAs (from 
> the beginning)  but most texts will note something like:
> alternate reading: aparXAn (first fruits)
>
> or possibly something like:
> lit.: a son of God

The third example (as I remember the discussion with Eric in Rome). 
Reading occurs in <note> to indicate an alternative reading from another 
source. The Amplified Bible would be covered with <transChange> to 
indicate a departure from translation to expansion (slippery distinction 
I know but not sure how to be more precise).


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> or possibly for minor text crit, like many NKJV general study Bibles 
> have, like:
> NU: omits this phrase
> to note variants in NKJV probably due to underlying greek variants 
> between TR and Nestle-Aland/UBS GNT (NU)
>
Patrick

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> Patrick Durusau wrote:
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>> <reading> has: <foreign>, <milestone>, <name>, <reference>, <seg>, <w>.
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>> Looks like it needs: <abbr>, <divineName>, <transChange>?
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>> Comments?
>>
>> Patrick
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu