[osis-core] paragraph break defended once again.

[Patrick Durusau]

Troy,

I really don't think of myself as "mad" but then who would trust the 
judgment of a crazy person? Self-reports of sanity should always be 
doubted. ;-)

I don't think anyone is saying that you should not be able to preserve 
what you quite correctly call a "paragraph delineation." The question is 
must we use something with "p" as the GI to do so?

I know we have put a lot of stuff in the schema just to satisfy the 
"semantics" of users and quite rightly so. I guess I thinking that if 
people have to use milestones for linebreaks, or any of the other things 
we enumerate for milestones, is it really that much of a stretch to do 
paragraph breaks that are not containers?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Chris,
> 
>> We do provide a mechanism for correctly marking paragraphs; it's the 
>> <p> element, and it's not a milestone unless you give it start & end IDs.
> 
> 
> Agreed.  Our current schema only allows a <p></p> CONTAINER, and does 
> not allow for a 'Paragraph Break' marker.  I am arguing that it should. 
>  The overwhelming number of texts that I have seen all include a 
> paragraph break marker.  Determining a paragraph CONTAINER is a task 
> that we currently FORCE on the encoder of a document.  I am suggesting 
> that we DON'T force this on the encoder; but instead, we should supply 
> them with a 'Paragraph Break' construct.
> 
> This is what I'm proposing.  If you disagree, that is fine.  But I think 
> it is the job of the AUTHOR/EDITOR to decide and explicitly state a 
> paragraph container, if they wish to do so-- not the job of the encoder 
> to guess.  As authors understand this new tool we've given them (<p> 
> CONTAINERS), I'm sure they will begin to use such.  But some texts will 
> NEVER have these, including ancient fragments of documents that might 
> have some indication of paragraph delineation, which we should STILL be 
> able to encode.
> 
> Again, my proposal is to allow a paragraph break semantic that IS 
> recognized by stylesheets, and I think <p/> would require NO change to 
> an existing stylesheet, and also fully conveys the intent-- a 'paragraph 
> break'.
> 
> If no one else thinks we need an OSIS recognized 'Paragraph Break' 
> construct, I will think you all mad, but will concede quietly.
> 
>     -Troy
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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