[osis-core] Should we allow <divineName> in <catchWord>

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick and Chris,

I see Chris' point.  At present I put no markup of "LORD" I catchword.

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Little
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:01 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] Should we allow <divineName> in <catchWord>
> 
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Patrick Durusau wrote:
> 
> > ><catchWord> has been pretty difficult to work with.  I think we
should
> > >either include all of the options available in normal text OR make
> > >catchWord have only a sequence of one or more <reference> elements
that
> > >refer to the current document AND use the grain.  Multiple
<reference>
> > >elements would be used if there are ellipsis are desired.
> > >
> > Maybe it is the jet lag or more likely just being dense but I really
> > don't see the difficulty in working with <catchWord>.
> >
> > Let's assume that you have <divineName> in the text and in
<catchWord>
> > which appears in a note on the same page. Do you really want to find
> > duplicate references to the same occurrence of <divineName> just
because
> > it appears in what is a textual clue to what is being addressed in a
> note?
> >
> > In most cases, <catchWord> should only contain a text string, no
other
> > elements, although we allowed a few so references could be embedded,
> etc..
> >
> > I have yet to imagine or hear any reason why you want to allow this
sort
> > of markup in <catchWord>. Certainly no way to constrain it to match
the
> > markup that is found in the main text, which it is supposed to be
drawn
> > from so it looks more like a source of problems than anything else.
> 
> 
> I actually see a problem with not allowing <divineName> inside of
> <catchWord>.  As I recall, we added <divineName> largely to indicate
the
> meaning behind small caps rendering of Lord, etc.  If Lord occurs as
part
> of <catchWord> text, currently it either cannot indicate that it
should be
> rendered with small caps or it would need to do so through some
> non-standard method, like <seg type="divineName">, which would make
> creating generalized style-sheets more difficult.
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
> 
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