[osis-core] Add <verse> to <inscription>]

Steven J. DeRose sderose at acm.org
Wed Jul 7 10:54:11 MST 2004


>Subject: Re: [osis-core] Add <verse> to <inscription>
>Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:03:19 -0400
>From: Patrick Durusau <Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org>
>Reply-To: osis-core at bibletechnologieswg.org
>To: osis-core at bibletechnologieswg.org
>References: <002a01c44e3e$4975eae0$657fa8c0 at BLUELIGHT>
>
>Todd,
>
>Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>>  Can we add <verse> to <inscription>, so that a verse can start/end
>>  within an inscription?
>>
>
>Do you have an example of this?
>
>In other words, an inscription that contains a verse (the thing in
>itself) as opposed to the typography of someone recording such a thing?
>(Is there a difference?)
>
>To illustrate:
>
>On the wall of my office: <inscription> Patrick likes to quote the
>Bible, where it says: <verse>Why do you call for the day of the
>Lord?</verse><verse>The day of the Lord is darkness and not
>light.</verse></inscription>
>
>That is a verse appears in an incription that someone may be reporting
>in a text and the markup reflects the structure of the inscription as
>observed.

I can't think of any Biblical cases; is it likely to show up in 
extra-Biblical materials any time soon (most of which probably won't 
have verses anyway...)?



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