[osis-core] paraBreak, cite, q-continuations

[Chris Little]

Troy,

Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> Chris,
>     Let me get this straight.  You are saying that you feel that Lockman 
> intends Matthew 9:1 to be it's own paragraph?  One verse.
> And from your quote below, you also feel that they intend for Rev 13:1 
> to be it's own paragraph?
> 
>     I wholeheartedly disagree, and don't feel we can solve this by more 
> traffic.  I appeal to Caesar.  (Steve, you around?)

True, in the case of Matt.9.1.  Rev.13.1 contains one entire paragraph 
and the start of a second because of the way the natural topical 
divisions fail to line up with chapter divisions.

I'm sorry if you disagree, but Lockman's preface material and choice of 
rendering style m pretty clear.

>     Patrick, I would argue that if an entire paragraph can exist inside 
> of one verse, then <p> should be allow in <verse>.  Any chance you could 
> just add <p> to <verse> for me?

We already discussed this in the lead-up to 1.5.  The decision was that 
if you need to break paragraphs mid-verse, the verse needs to be done 
with milestones.

>     Everyone, after spending a week arguing for a practicle addition for 
> a real world case that I feel is necessary, I'm very discouraged to not 
> get any concessions.  We have added so many other things that go against 
> the rules you all cite: we have page breaks-- why not force them to 
> containers.  We have line breaks-- same argument.

Of the milestones, only "halfLine" has any linguistic meaning.  (We 
might have created a halfLine element, but it seems an unnecessary 
expense for something only used in certain Indic and Medieval Germanic 
poetic materials.)  Page, column, screen, & line breaks are purely 
orthographic & have no linguistic meaning.  Paragraphs, I hope we can 
agree, have linguistic meaning as divisions.

The bigger issue is that we already have a way to mark paragraphs and we 
agreed last time in Dallas that we don't want two ways of encoding a 
single thing, when possible.  (I don't know why we have two ways of 
marking line breaks--2nd message on that topic to follow.)

 > I'm just frustrated
> to have to spend one week on a real world problem that I can't get solved.

The problems you've cited are real, but we've suggested solutions for 
all of them.

>     I don't have time to defend my practicle position any longer against 
> idealisms.  Please vote and let me know if I'll need to use non-OSIS 
> recognized tags to do my paragraph breaks, continuation quotes, and Old 
> Testament citations.

How does making a non-conformant document help anything?  Use Lockman's 
own DTD if you want to do that.

--Chris