[osis-core] RE: OSIS Meeting PHL 11/17-11/18/2005 Agenda Item 1) Quotes

[Todd Tillinghast]

Neil,

I think the direction is that this is a valid point but that it should 
be handled in conjunction with full support for discourse markers.

So for now right or wrong the only "markers" that get special treatment 
is quotes.

Todd

Neil Rees wrote:
> Do we need to extend this to all or more punctuation e.g. full-stops (periods) and question marks?
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> IN Armenian they use what we call colon (:) as a full-stop/ period
> In Greek they use what we call semi-colon (;) as a question mark
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> Studge
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Tillinghast [mailto:todd at snowfallsoftware.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:02 PM
> Cc: Troy A. Griffitts; rees at studge.freeserve.co.uk; Mike Perez; sderose at acm.org; kdeblois at biblesocieties.org; Patrick Durusau; chrislit at crosswire.org; klowery at whi.wts.edu; OSIS Core
> Subject: OSIS Meeting PHL 11/17-11/18/2005 Agenda Item 1) Quotes
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> 1) quotes
> Issue raised by Troy regarding encoding the quote mark used in an 
> original text.  Main interest for Troy was no having to know the mark 
> tradition for each language.
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> <q mark="the mark character here"> is provided with OSIS 2.1
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> While this works it can get a bit wordy for every quote.
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> Suggestion was made regarding putting a default mark somewhere in the 
> header.
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> Patrick and Troy are going to work on a proposal for that syntax off 
> line and post to the list.
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