[sword-devel] KJV Beta issue

[David Haslam]

Has anyone checked what the 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Paragraph_Bible Cambridge Paragraph
Bible  (2005) does?

There is now a paperback edition (2006) of this modern textual recension by
David Norton.

-- David


DM Smith-5 wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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