[osis-core] OT Quote in NT

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Chris,

> You're basing your argument on presentation, not meaning.  I don't think 
> we should go down that road.

Agreed that we don't want to go down the road of basing elements on 
presentation rather than meaning.

I'm not positive which part of my message makes you feel that I'm doing 
this.  My reference that <q> and ", ', `, et. al. should be similar was 
not intended to do this (if that was the offending segment).  The 
purpose of the correlation is to assign a 'traditional' definition of 
QUOTE to our <q> element.


> It also sounds like you're using <q> and </q> just as stand-ins for 
> open/close quotation marks rather conceiving of them as a container for 
> a quotation itself.

Yes, I am.  I would like to assign the meaning to the XML markup of <q> 
from the traditional English markup of ", ', `, et. al.  My argument is 
that authors already have a definition in their head for when to use ", 
', `, et. al. and I would like to capitalize on their understanding.

	-Troy.


> 
> --Chris
> 
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
>> Hey Chris,
>>     Thanks for the pertinent, articulate reply.  However, I still 
>> disagree.  Through many ages of English grammar, a QUOTE (") has meant 
>> a small set of specific things.  I think assigning this traditional 
>> meaning of the English term QUOTE to our usage of our tag <q> is a 
>> wise thing.
>>
>>     The NASB and other Bible translations did not feel that QUOTE (") 
>> was proper to use for these entities in Scripture, and neither do I.  
>> They are a very specific and different thing, and it would not be 
>> intuitive for an encoder to use <q> for such a thing, as he would 
>> think that using <q> would assign an attribute to the text which was 
>> more, or rather different, than what he wants to assign.
>>
>>     Just to sum up:
>>
>>     I believe that <q> SHOULD always be renderable with QUOTE (", ', 
>> `, et. al.)
>>
>>     I believe that when literal translations render a segment as SMALL 
>> CAPS in the New Testament what they feel is a reference or allusions 
>> to the Old Testament, they assign a meaning that, when one thinks of 
>> QUOTE ("), is only dangerously in error.
>>
>>
>>     -Troy.
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