[sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

Chris Little chrislit at crosswire.org
Mon Mar 9 22:41:31 MST 2009



Daniel Owens wrote:
> One more thing to consider is poetic elements that are right-justified. 
> One of the translations I have worked on preparing for SWORD had "Selah" 
> right justified (VietNVB, in case you're interested). I just encoded it 
> like so:
> 
> <l level="4">Sê-la.</l>
> 
> It isn't right-justified, but I think level 3 was the highest indented 
> line I found. There should be a standard way of right-justifying, though.
> 
> Daniel

It's not a general purpose right-justify directive, but OSIS does have a 
specific line type for Selah (and Selah-derived) lines:

<l type="selah">Selah</l>

--Chris



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