[osis-core] OT Quote in NT

[Troy A. Griffitts]

> It also sounds like you're using <q> and </q> just as stand-ins for 
> open/close quotation marks rather conceiving of them as a container for 
> a quotation itself.

Actually, after re-reading this, I'm not sure I understand your 
accusation.  Rest assured I _am_ conceiving <q></q> as a container for 
whatever we define as a 'quotation itself'.  Not sure any other 
conception would be XML-friendly.  Not sure if you are accusing me of 
'rather conceiving' this way, or posing an alternative to how you think 
I am conceiving: 'rather [than] conceiving'.  But in either case, I 
think we agree.

We should be:

	...conceiving of them as a container for
	a quotation itself.

I think it is the definition of a quotation that we need to 
resolve/solidify.

PS.  Not to lose site, I'm still hoping for an element/mechanism apart 
from <q> to markup OT allusions found in the New Testament regularly 
marked with SMALL CAPS in modern, literal translations.


> 
> --Chris
> 
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
>> Hey Chris,
>>     Thanks for the pertinent, articulate reply.  However, I still 
>> disagree.  Through many ages of English grammar, a QUOTE (") has meant 
>> a small set of specific things.  I think assigning this traditional 
>> meaning of the English term QUOTE to our usage of our tag <q> is a 
>> wise thing.
>>
>>     The NASB and other Bible translations did not feel that QUOTE (") 
>> was proper to use for these entities in Scripture, and neither do I.  
>> They are a very specific and different thing, and it would not be 
>> intuitive for an encoder to use <q> for such a thing, as he would 
>> think that using <q> would assign an attribute to the text which was 
>> more, or rather different, than what he wants to assign.
>>
>>     Just to sum up:
>>
>>     I believe that <q> SHOULD always be renderable with QUOTE (", ', 
>> `, et. al.)
>>
>>     I believe that when literal translations render a segment as SMALL 
>> CAPS in the New Testament what they feel is a reference or allusions 
>> to the Old Testament, they assign a meaning that, when one thinks of 
>> QUOTE ("), is only dangerously in error.
>>
>>
>>     -Troy.
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