[osis-core] new half-verse milestonePt type?

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

OK, halfVerse it is! Got to take care of our Anglo-Saxon readers. ;-)

Should have a new version out early tomorrow. Steve and I are making 
substantial progress. Won't be finished but should be better.

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:

> I realize this is rather specialized and perhaps outside the scope of 
> what BTG wants to handle, but I'll propose it anyway since it doesn't 
> require much.
>
> Anglo-Saxon poetry includes Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and, 
> of relevence to BTG, Codex Junius, which itself includes Anglo-Saxon 
> verse adaptations of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel.  Anglo-Saxon poetry 
> recognizes a half-verse point that is rendered in print as 3-4 extra 
> spaces.  Some other forms of poetry used in other languages also mark 
> a half-verse, so this does apply outside of just Anglo-Saxon, but I 
> don't know specifics.
>
> So I'm requesting the addition of a "half-verse" value to the 
> milestonePt type, or "halfVerse" if we want to avoid hyphens.  Some 
> prose explanation would be deserved to clarify that this is a point 
> and not a spanm so it cannot be used to mark the medial character in 
> Hebrew verse.
>
> --Chris
>
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Patrick Durusau
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Society of Biblical Literature
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