[sword-devel] KJV Beta issue

[DM Smith]

Greg Hellings wrote:
> 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.
>   
Every KJV that I have shows each verse starting on a new line, with the 
verse number at the beginning of the line. Most do not display the verse 
number for verse 1.

In Him,
    DM
> --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