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[Patrick Durusau]

Jim,

Back in the OSIS saddle again!

Jim Schaad wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Two issues, one request for  a clarification and one just a please help
> me.
> 
> 1.  I think it would be worthwhile to add a section on "conical"
> ordering of elements in an OSIS document.  I was looking at a pargraph
> that was an entire verse and an entire quote.  According to my
> calculations the arrangement of these three elements alone (without the
> problems of adding notes, titles and other such things) is that there
> are 24 different encodings to start the paragraph with.  This is just
> too much different ways for my poor style sheet to handle, although not
> a huge issue for the programmic methods of doing display that can build
> and keep state while crossing the different items.
> 
Think we will be covering this in the Users Manual as a "best practice."

Do you have a sampel or two that you would like to contribute?

Omitting the quote processing for this reply.

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> 
> 3. Possible addition for consideration:  To facilitate the extraction of
> chapters from the text, it would be nice to be able to add <q> and
> <speech> elements at the beginning of divisions (such as chapter) in
> order to have history of these elements moved forward.  I would suggest
> tagging them with an attribute of cID that matches the correct sID and
> eID.
> 

Lost me on this one. Not sure what you mean by "history of these 
elements move forward." May just be thick this morning but I am not 
seeing the problem or the operation of the solution. Sorry.

Can you say a few more words about either the problem you are solving or 
how the solution would work? Either one may help me understand what 
needs to be done.

One place where I am confused, for example, is adding <q> and <speech> 
elements at the beginning of a division, like a chapter. Do you mean 
that a <q> or <speech> begins just after the chapter opens? In other words:

<div type="chapter"><q>/<speech>?

Or do you mean that the <q>/<speech> begin elsewhere?

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

-- 
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!