[sword-devel] Canonical Headings in Psalms

[Michael H]

The primary USFM translation program, ParaTExt, sorts things by chapter.
Specifically, everything between \c and \c is considered 1 chapter. and the
normal view of the Paratext program is to limit what appears on screen in
this way: Only text that occurs after the \c shows with the rest of that
chapter. Because of this, things like chapter titles (\cl,) sectional cross
references (\r,) psalm title/descriptors (\d,) and section titles (\s),
etc. must be placed below the \c tag even if they will ultimately appear
before the drop cap number on the printed page.

Due to this limitation of paratext, valid USFM as it is being edited and
valid text for presentation are two separate things. Be aware that sorting
occurs on USFM items that occur at the start of each chapter once the work
gets to publishing.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:09 AM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> DM wrote, "In many translations these are not headings but are verse 1 and
> the rest of the verses number from 2 onward."
>
> There's at least one Psalm where the descriptive title is verses 1 & 2,
> with
> the main Psalm starting at verse 3.  e.g. Psalm 54 in some French Bibles,
> etc.
>
> There are other Psalms where the descriptive title is only PART of verse 1.
>
> Aside: (need to know for USFM to OSIS converters)
>
> In Paratext, the custom for translations that assign part of verse 1 to the
> descriptive title is as follows:
>
> \d
> \v 1 Descriptive title.
> \q1 Rest of verse one text.
>
> i.e. Paratext assumes that the \d marker prevails until the first
> [paragraph
> or] poetry marker, and that it can include a verse marker.
>
> David
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