[osis-core] Use of "+" in grain of a reference.

[Todd Tillinghast]

The below message refers to the test encoding of Matt.13 I sent out last
night.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:owner-osis-
> core@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Todd Tillinghast
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:56 PM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] Use of "+" in grain of a reference.
> 
> And I did not use the "+" behavior?  It seems to indicate a range or
> characters rather than a point.  When referring to a segment of a
verse
> it would seem the only appropriate value following the "+" would be
the
> number of characters in the segment not the number of characters in
the
> first word in the segment.
> 
> Have I missed the boat on the "+"?
> Is it to help parse the word in parentheses?  If this is the purpose
> would it be more "third normal" to just count the characters of the
word
> in parentheses?
> 
> Is there a reason to not remove the "+"?
> 
> Todd