[sword-devel] KJV OT encoding question

[chrislit at crosswire.org]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, DM Smith wrote:

> At the end of many verses there is a <milestone type="x-p"/>. It only occurs 
> in the OT and in every OT book.
>
> What is this?

It's a paragraph "milestone". To correct, the marker should be converted 
to <p>...</p>. (Every KJV chapter begins a new chapter. So conversion 
should be as easy as putting <p> at the beginning and </p> at the end of 
each chapter and converting each of those milestones to properly placed 
</p><p>'s.

In some printings of the KJV, this is rendered as a pilcrow in the verse 
starting a new paragraph. Specifically, you will find this in editions 
that start a new line for every verse. Editions with paragraph-style 
formatting obviously render paragraphs with linebreaks between paragraphs.

--Chris