[sword-devel] Names, proper and geographic

[Michael H]

In USFM, the proper name marker [ \pn ] is a feature in East asian
Languages (Chinese), proper names are typographically marked (dotted
underlines most frequently) to aid the reader recognizing those glyphs.

That's the original use, and the intent of it's presence in OSIS. There
might be others. The point is, it was originally intended as a visible
marker, not metadata.




On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Tom Sullivan <info at beforgiven.info> wrote:

> Peter:
>
> To my mind, the simpler the better. I would not actually use the OSIS
> markup for name. There is a potential compatibility problem with different
> software. I think it would be best if one were to simply right-click on a
> word, and the user would see what, if any, resources were available for it.
> Such would be a more generalized solution.
>
> For what it is worth.
>
> Tom Sullivan
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> On 12/03/2017 05:49 PM, refdoc at gmx.net wrote:
>
>> OSIS offers to mark these up. There are databases and there are public
>> domain texts on which one can experiment.
>>
>> What functionality would be a reasonable expectation associated with a
>> marked up name? Potentially different presentation style, a dictionary link
>> maybe? Something else?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird
>> autocorrects.
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