[osis-core] paragraph break defended once again.

[Troy A. Griffitts]

> But what's more, I really can't conceive of any use for it.  Could 
> someone think up a use case for it?  I would concede if there were some 
> actual use in marking e.g. manuscripts.

http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Vaticanus/general.html#div


>  There is no ambiguity as to what is intended by their use of their DTD 
> in their document--in fact it's probably the cleanest & most lucidly 
> marked document I've ever encountered.

Well, to cite an example for you.  Just looking briefly, reading the 
text would make one assume that there should be a paragraph break 
between Mat. 1 and Mat 2.  Also, if I had to guess, I would probably not 
place a paragraph break between Mat. 8 and 9.

I just don't want to have to read the text and guess-- that's all.


> Let me put it this way: Paragraph breaks necessarily follow (or possibly 
> come between?) paragraphs.  In order to have one, you must have the 
> other.  Paragraphs are blocks of content that deserve to go inside a 
> container (<p>).  What Troy is suggesting is that there is no such thing 
> as a paragraph in the NASB--only paragraph breaks.

I am not suggesting that the NASB does not have a concept of a paragraph 
container.  I'm suggesting that they do not have unambiguous markup of 
these, and I don't feel it is the encoder's task to unambiguate the 
containers.

I also see other uses for a paragraph break marker, like in mss markup 
or other fragment markup (possibly including modern document segments)

I think it is important to know what is and is not one's task and place, 
and I am merely pulling for a way to be a faithful encoder and not 
overstep my role.

	-Troy.



> 
> It just makes no sense to me to add a type to milestone for a case 
> already handled by a special element (<p>).  It's maddness, if you will. :)
> 
> --Chris
> 
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