<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 12, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Chris Little wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-Line-feed and tabulations are not considered as space: if you look at</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Genesis 1:2, it should be "Et l'Esprit de Dieu" and it is displayed as</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Etl'Esprit de Dieu" (a space is missing).</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This looks like a problem with osis2mod, but the OSIS file itself could<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">use some whitespace cleanup.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There is a lot of stray whitespace, for<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">example at ends of lines, before </p>. The problem in Genesis 1:2 could<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be handled by deleting changing the linefeed + tab to a single space.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I think this is rather a "feature". osis2mod is trimming "extraneous" whitespace. I think this was to handle input that is pretty. I'm in favor of retaining all whitespace. My opinion is that an osis document should be what is actually wanted. I've got some changes I need to make because of the NASB (osis2mod is not handling stuff between verses well). I can change this too if it is what people want.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>