On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Greg Hellings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div id=":18f" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">None. Information is all relative to the context. You lose no<br>
information if you encode printed KJV italics terms with <i>, <em>,<br>
<hi type="i"> or <transChange>. It still means the exact same thing -<br>
the enclosed text was added by translators and the module creator<br>
wishes to maintain that. The only time you'd lose information when<br>
moving to OSIS is if you specifically chose to drop information out.<br>
As for losing information if you move into ThML - I'm not fully<br>
familiar with the ThML specification, one of the biggest problems I<br>
have with it is that the versions I can find on the web (1.02 from<br>
2001) don't have support for actually encoding a whole Bible. But for<br>
the rest of the genre which ThML supports, I see no information which<br>
can't be represented in ThML.<br>
</div></blockquote></div>The point I was making was not that you can't encode it, but you lose the semantic significance of it. The user can tell that <i>test</i> was added, but the program can't - unless that is the only way <i> is ever used - which it isn't. If you use italic formatting for anything else, you have lost information - not presentation information - but the actual meaning is now inaccessible to the program, as it can't necessarily tell what a particular <i> means. If I want to mark translator added words in violet, or even allow omitting them altogether, this is now not easily possible.<br>
<br clear="all">God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br> in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br>
in the valley of decision.<br><br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV)<br><br>
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