<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, David Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfhmch@googlemail.com" target="_blank">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some Bible modules that are for a language with a non-Roman script do NOT<br>
have an attribute 'n' value in the OSIS,<br>
so the automatically generated footnote markers (a, b, c, d, ...) look<br>
especially bad.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That is what the 'n' attribute is for. If the auto-generated footnote markers look bad, then put in an 'n' attribute to the source OSIS file.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Defaults generally look bad when applied to circumstances outside of their source default.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If at all possible, we should employ letters from the same script.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I don't know of a programmatic method for this, but if there is one it would probably introduce dependency on another library such as ICU or similar. Xiphos currently does not require ICU directly and BibleTime tries to not require it at all by using the built-in Qt libraries for Unicode handling. But, in general, if users don't like the 'default' behavior they should use the provided mechanism of the 'n' attribute to change it.</div>
<div style> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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For collaboration projects, this subject should be something to be reviewed<br>
with the copyright owners and/or Bible translators.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>And they should provide values for the 'n' attribute.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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/This was briefly commented on in a private email concerning the Central<br>
Kurdish (Sorani NT) module/.<br>
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David<br>
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