<div dir="ltr"><div>DM, that's a very good point, I agree that the use of abbr in this situation is appropriate.<br></div><div>But we shouldn't really be choosing between representing it as an abbreviation or as a name : it's both. It's the abbreviation of a name.</div><div>So the way of carrying the full semantic information is to use both tags (abbr inside name - so that expanding abbr would result in a properly annotated name).</div><div><br></div><div>Ex: For <name type="x-nomen-<span class="gmail-il">sacra</span>"><abbr expansion=“God”>Gd</abbr></name> so loved the world</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le dim. 16 mars 2025 à 18:11, David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> <div dir="auto">I second that motion!</div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 16:44, DM Smith <<a href="mailto:On+Sun,+Mar+16,+2025+at+16:44,+DM+Smith+%3C%3Ca+href=" target="_blank">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"> Recently we had a discussion regarding nomina sacra, which is a Greek New Testament manuscript abbreviation for sacred names. It is going back and forth what is the appropriate markup: Name element or abbreviation element for semantic markup and/or using the highlight element, hi, with overline. It was noted that overline is supported in SWORD but not JSword.
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<br>I’d like to suggest that if the expansion element is present that it is indexed/searched at the same position as the text.
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<br>Example, pretend this is Greek:
<br> For <abbr expansion=“God” type=“nomina-sacra">Gd</abbr> so loved the world
<br>Then a search for the exact phrase
<br> “God so loved the world”
<br>would return the verse.
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<br>Not indexing/searching the expansion wouldn’t find God in the verse.
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<br>Having it at the same position is necessary for exact phrase search.
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<br>In Him,
<br> DM Smith
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