[sword-devel] KJV Beta issue

[Greg Hellings]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM, David Haslam<d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> DM is correct - I just checked four different printed editions of the KJV in
> our house, and they all have Pilcrows as part of the text.  One of them had
> a distinctly different typeface appearance for this character, but it was
> definitely there in all the right places.
>
> It may be noted in passing that a majority of digital versions of the KJV on
> the world wide web actually omit the Pilcrows, which means that, in this
> respect at least, they are not being as faithful as they should.  Probably
> these are also editions which don't use italics for the interpolated words.

Do these same electronic sources actually display the
verse-as-paragraph typesetting of the KJV or do they use the pilcrow
characters to delineate typeset paragraphs?  I've seen that done
before with the KJV, though very infrequently.

--Greg

>
> In the book "The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611) - Its
> Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representatives" by F.H.A. Scrivener (1884),
> I could not find any reference to pilcrows, nor even a hint about these in
> the section (IV) about "Its punctuation".
>
> -- David
>
>
> David Haslam wrote:
>>
>> And if you didn't already know, the name of this symbol is the Pilcrow.
>>
>> The pilcrow sign is ¶ (U+00B6). See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
>> The section sign is § (U+00A7). See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign
>>
>> Enjoy learning (I do)!
>>
>> - David
>>
>> DM Smith-5 wrote:
>>>
>>> Brian J. Dumont wrote:
>>>> I'm using KJV Beta (2.4), and have noticed quite a few paragraph
>>>> markers (¶) which show up.  See Num 16:12 for one example.
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't these be replaced with osis markup to denote paragraphs?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, they are part of the text of the KJV.
>>>
>>> In Him,
>>>     DM
>>>
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