paragraph formatting question

[Daniel-Hug]

I have a question about paragraph formatting. I have provided a screenshot of a passage in Matthew 21 below. It seems that you have two different levels of paragraphs. Is that right?

[mlvbible]

These are just stray tabs from where an Editor clicked in a blank area. WP just added tabs to accommodate. We remove these periodically and they don't show up on the screen either way.

[Daniel-Hug]

Are these newlines between each verse also unintended leftovers from the editor? That is not just their natural wrapping point. The reason I ask these questions is I am actually trying to port the existing formats to a new format. My goals with a new format other than RTF, HTML, etc. are as follows:

• Do away with the inconsistencies caused by rich text formats
• Be able to easily read and edit in plain text
• Allow easier programmatic searches
• Allow simple conversion from this format to others: HTML, PDF, JSON (for use by developers perhaps through an API)
• Have it become our new base format from which others are generated

Let me know what your thoughts are on replacing the existing base format and what those newlines are for. Thanks!

[mlvbible]

This is discussed in the Preface. Blank lines are to attempt to keep subjects together.

Some paragraphing is because of sub topics or conversations between one or more people.

[mlvbible]

You have to remember that NO verse was in the Bible.