[osis-core] <lb> element - did we make a mistake when we added it?

[Chris Little]

Todd Tillinghast wrote:

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>>I don't think marking linebreaks (in addition to the lines themselves)
>>in poetry is a common occurrence at all.  I've never seen it outside
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>>the CEV, and I think that occurrence is arguably bad practice, though
>>it's not our place to fix the translators' mistakes.
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>I agree that it is a more rare case and that my perspective is
>influenced by spending time with the CEV.
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>If it is RARE then we should consider REMOVING <lb/> and forcing the CEV
>(who may likely be the sole user of the <lb/> element) to use <milestone
>type="line"/> and admit that we were unduly influenced by a single text
>at the time of the meeting.
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Well, we didn't necessarily make a mistake by adding <lb/>.  I really 
think it's reasonable to switch to <lb> from <milestone type="line">, 
especially if <lb> has special types associated with it.

I also think it would be sensible to state that all orthographic lines 
should be marked by <lb> rather than <l>, which would make <lb> much 
more common than it currently is, at least outside of Bibles.

--Chris