[sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

[Ben Morgan]

On 10/03/2009, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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>


The way the ESV marks these is <foreign type="x-selah">Selah</foreign> (not
on a line of their own)
The WEB doesn't specially mark them, but they are on a line of their own.

God Bless,
Ben
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