[osis-core] Selah

[Todd Tillinghast]

Everything Chris said sounds very reasonable to me.

Todd

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> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org 
> [mailto:osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of 
> Chris Little
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:27 PM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] Selah
> 
> 
> Selah is a very common thing to mark though, suggesting that 
> we ought to 
> have a standard manner of indicating it. (And our position with <seg> 
> has always been that we won't use it for anything we 
> designate ourselves.)
> 
> General Bible Format and Lockman's markup both offer presentational 
> "right justify" tags that are used exclusively for selah.  Perhaps we 
> need a special element for it, or it might be a type of 
> another element 
> (e.g. the proposed <discourseMarker> element).
> 
> --Chris
> 
> Patrick Durusau wrote:
> > Todd,
> > 
> > Curious because the NRSV is not consistent.
> > 
> > Look at Ps. 77,
> > 
> > Selah, v. 3 separate line
> > 
> > Selah v. 9 same line as other text
> > 
> > Selah v. 15 same line as other text
> > 
> > If I were doing line markup, I would just include it in a 
> line and if 
> > I
> > wanted to distinguish it, then use seg. Same for other 
> container elements.
> > 
> > If the user wants to key off of it for special presentation, noting 
> > that
> > in all cases it is justified to the right margin, need to 
> enclose in <seg>.
> > 
> > Does that help?
> > 
> > Hope you are having a great day!
> > 
> > Patrick
> 
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