<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I wish to propose that we design in a new SWORD filter.<br><br>The conf key would be:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><b>GlobalOptionFilter=ShowWordDividers</b></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the writing systems for the various languages of SE Asia (<b>Thai</b>, <b>Khmer</b>, <b>Lao</b>, <b>Myanmar</b>) there is [generally] <b>no space between words</b>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In this respect, they are like many European languages before the start of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Space-Between-Words-Origins-Medieval/dp/080474016X" title="silent reading">silent reading</a>. The descriptive term is <i><b>Scriptura Continua</b></i>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<br>Some Bible translations for this region are already making use of one of the ZERO WIDTH characters to invisibly mark the divisions between lexical words.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Options include:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;">U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO BREAK SPACE</li></ul><div>They exclude:</div><div><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;">U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER</li></ul><div>A further possibility, even without requiring a full study Bible with Strong's, etc, is to simply wrap each lexical word within the OSIS <b>w</b> element.</div><div>One without any OSIS attributes would suffice for this purpose. Likewise, for the <b>seg</b> element.</div></div><div><br></div><div>My proposal is that we design a feature to <b>show/hide word dividers</b> by displaying them using a suitable visible but non-intrusive character.</div><div>My suggestion is to use this Unicode character by default:</div><div><br></div><div><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;">U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT</li></ul></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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<div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">We could even allow the actual visible character to be specified in a second conf key, thus:</div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc;">VisibleWordDivider=U+00B7</li></ul></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><span style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Benefits would include:</span><div style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><ul data-editing-info="{"orderedStyleType":1,"unorderedStyleType":1}" style="padding-inline-start:2.85714em;margin-block:0px;scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Helps with language learning to know where lexical words start and end</li><li style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Helps with front-end search for whole words, exact phrase or all words</li><li style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Helps with checking the accuracy of Bible translations by clearly displaying lexical word boundaries at the touch of a single key in the front-end</li><li style="scrollbar-width:thin;scrollbar-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35) rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Paves the way for Study Bible with the addition of Strong's mark-up, etc.</li></ul></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">Here's a sample of Khmer verse text with the MIDDLE DOT as the visible word divider:</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 class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><b>Obad.1.1</b> <table width="748" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:561pt">
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<td height="39" align="left" width="748" style="padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; border-image: initial; height: 29.25pt; width: 561pt; border-top: 0.5pt solid white; border-right: none; border-bottom: 0.5pt solid white; border-left: 0.5pt solid white; background: rgb(184, 204, 228); color: black;">នេះ·ជា·សុបិន·និមិត្ដ·របស់·លោក·អូបាឌា
ព្រះអម្ចាស់·ជា·ព្រះ·មាន·បន្ទូល·ពី·ក្រុង·អេដំម ។
យើង·បាន·ឮ·ដំណឹង·មក·ពី·ព្រះអម្ចាស់ គឺ·មាន·ទូត·ម្នាក់·បាន·បញ្ជូន·ឲ្យ·ទៅ
ក្នុង·ចំណោម·ជន·ជាតិ·ទាំង·ឡាយ·ដោយ·ពាក្យ·ថា "ចូរ·ក្រោក·ឡើង !
ចូរ·យើង·ក្រោក·ឡើង·ធ្វើ·ចម្បាំង·ទាស់·និង·គេ"</td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">cf. Here's what it looks like with the ZWSP as the in<span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">visible word<span> </span></span>divider:</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 class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><b>Obad.1.1</b></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><table width="748" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:561pt">
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<td height="39" align="left" width="748" style="padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-left: 1px; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; border-image: initial; height: 29.25pt; width: 561pt; border-top: 0.5pt solid white; border-right: none; border-bottom: 0.5pt solid white; border-left: 0.5pt solid white; background: rgb(184, 204, 228); color: black;">នេះជាសុបិននិមិត្ដរបស់លោកអូបាឌា
ព្រះអម្ចាស់ជាព្រះមានបន្ទូលពីក្រុងអេដំម ។
យើងបានឮដំណឹងមកពីព្រះអម្ចាស់ គឺមានទូតម្នាក់បានបញ្ជូនឲ្យទៅ
ក្នុងចំណោមជនជាតិទាំងឡាយដោយពាក្យថា "ចូរក្រោកឡើង !
ចូរយើងក្រោកឡើងធ្វើចម្បាំងទាស់និងគេ"</td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">If SWORD developers agree that my proposal merits consideration, please would you start on the software development.</div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">
Best regards,<br><br>David
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