[osis-core] new half-verse milestonePt type?

[Todd Tillinghast]

So what is this element to be called, where can it live, and are there
any special attributes or enumerated type values?

Chris can you give a one line example?

Todd

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> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:24 PM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] new half-verse milestonePt type?
> 
> Chris,
> 
> OK, halfVerse it is! Got to take care of our Anglo-Saxon readers. ;-)
> 
> Should have a new version out early tomorrow. Steve and I are making
> substantial progress. Won't be finished but should be better.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Chris Little wrote:
> 
> > I realize this is rather specialized and perhaps outside the scope
of
> > what BTG wants to handle, but I'll propose it anyway since it
doesn't
> > require much.
> >
> > Anglo-Saxon poetry includes Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and,
> > of relevence to BTG, Codex Junius, which itself includes Anglo-Saxon
> > verse adaptations of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel.  Anglo-Saxon
poetry
> > recognizes a half-verse point that is rendered in print as 3-4 extra
> > spaces.  Some other forms of poetry used in other languages also
mark
> > a half-verse, so this does apply outside of just Anglo-Saxon, but I
> > don't know specifics.
> >
> > So I'm requesting the addition of a "half-verse" value to the
> > milestonePt type, or "halfVerse" if we want to avoid hyphens.  Some
> > prose explanation would be deserved to clarify that this is a point
> > and not a spanm so it cannot be used to mark the medial character in
> > Hebrew verse.
> >
> > --Chris
> >
> >
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