[osis-core] Yet another beta on formatting

[Chris Little]

Okay, I checked Merriam-Webster again and found I had mis-read the entry 
last night.  Troy's right, all mentions of "bible" should be "Bible" 
(titlecased)--even when referring to a common noun.  (It's still overly 
defensive hypercorrection, but it's hypercorrection that has moved into 
the real of tradition, I guess.)

--Chris

Chris Little wrote:

> Oops, I accidentally missed mentioning one of the instances of "Bible" 
> in the documentation that ought probably to be changed to "bible": 
> "XML 2000 on Bible encoding".
>
> Troy,
>
> You have to distinguish two uses of the word.  If it's a common noun, 
> referring to any bible, it's not capitalized.  If it's a proper noun 
> (used in the sense of a title), it's capitalized.  Thus, for example, 
> the following are correct:
>
> (1) I took my bible to church.
> (2) I took a copy of the Bible to church.
>
> While to following are incorrect:
>
> (3) *I took my Bible to church.
> (4) *I took a copy of the bible to church.
>
> We could be politically correct and capitalize them, but know that we 
> would be doing so for the wrong reasons (overly defensive 
> hypercorrection rather than actual grammaticality).  You also can't 
> capitalize "biblical", "bible-reading", or other forms derived from 
> the word "bible" that aren't specifically proper nouns.
>
> --Chris
>
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
>> Hey guys!  I validate.
>>
>> Only 1 gripe.  IMO, all instances of 'bible' where we mean THE Bible 
>> should be capitalized.  We are not referring to any bound canon, but 
>> The Christian Bible proper.  It also shows an irreverence that we 
>> don't wish to portray to our users.
>>
>>     -Troy.
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> XMLSpy re-wrote the schema from its memory model, thereby changing 
>>> the code. Yikes! Thanks to Todd for catching this.
>>>
>>> New beta version of the formatting attached. (Fixed XMLSpy to not 
>>> load into schema view and to do text only.)
>>>
>>> Assuming the diff says ok, we are good to go!
>>>
>>> Hope everyone is having a great day!
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
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