<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi David,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The novelty was not in the use of the OSIS XML element <b>q</b> - <i>per se</i>.<br>It's rather the use of the <i><b>milestone form</b></i> of the <b>q</b> element, at start & end of each quotation.<br><br>And moreover, it's now got me wondering how all the attribute values for the <b>sID</b> & <b>eID</b> pairs were generated? Did the source text have these already, or were they generated by <b>osis2mod</b> somehow?</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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On Saturday, April 12th, 2025 at 7:03 PM, David Instone-Brewer <davidinstonebrewer@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto"><div>David, I'm fairly sure STEPBible inherited this q markup. I always thought it originated with Crosswire before the Strongs were added. </div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><i><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">David IB</font></i><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, 11 Apr 2025, 18:44 David Haslam, <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I only spotted the use of this novel idea for the first time today...</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal">The milestone version of the OSIS q element</b></span><br><br>In the <b>Tyndale House Edition</b> of the ESV module <b>ESV_THE</b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">the verses with speech are coded like this example in the OSIS:</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><blockquote style="border-left:3px solid rgb(200,200,200);border-top-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-right-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-bottom-color:rgb(200,200,200);padding-left:10px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace">$$$Genesis 29:7</span><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace">He </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H00559">said</w>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(42,71,246)"><q level="1" marker="“" sID="01029007.1"/></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H02005">Behold</w>, it is </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H05750">still</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H01419">high</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H03117">day</w>; it is </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H03808">not</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H06256">time</w> for the </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H04735">livestock</w> to be </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H00622">gathered together</w>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H08248">Water</w> the </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H06629">sheep</w> and </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H01980">go</w>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:H07462">pasture</w> them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(42,71,246)"><q eID="01029007.1" level="1" marker="”"/></span></div></blockquote><span></span><br>
NB. For readability, each XML element starts on a new line in this email.<br>The colours are mine too.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Verses in the NT in which the words of Jesus are in quotation marks are coded as in this example:</div><blockquote style="border-left:3px solid rgb(200,200,200);border-top-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-right-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-bottom-color:rgb(200,200,200);padding-left:10px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace">$$$Matthew 3:15</span><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G1161">But</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G2424">Jesus</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G0611 strong:G3004 strong:G4314">answered</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G0846">him</w>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(237,65,57)"><q marker="" who="Jesus"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(42,71,246)"><q level="1" marker="“" sID="40003015.1"/></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G0863">Let</w> it be so </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G0737">now</w>, </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G1063">for</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G3779">thus</w> it is </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G4241 strong:G1510">fitting</w> for </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G2254">us</w> to </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G4137">fulfill</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G3956">all</w> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G1343">righteousness</w>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(42,71,246)"><q eID="40003015.1" level="1" marker="”"/></span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(237,65,57)"></q></span><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G5119">Then</w> he </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace"> <w lemma="strong:G0863 strong:G0846">consented</w>.</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">AFAICT, this has never been documented in the developers' wiki.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">HT to <b>Dr David Instone-Brewer</b> and the <b>STEP Bible</b> team.<br>NB. David retired from Tyndale House about 5 years ago.<br>
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