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Soft hyphens #10

Open DavidHaslam opened 6 years ago

DavidHaslam commented 6 years ago

There are lots of hyphenated words in Moffatt, but many transcribed words have spurious soft hyphens.

I suspect that these are the result of having used "soft hyphens" in case of word-wrap at the end of text lines in the original.

Aside: Are any of these are an artefact of having used LibreOffice ?

Soft hyphens are rarely applied uniformly by typesetters. Rather they are ad hoc expedients applied at specific locations where they seem to have been needed.

For an electronic edition, I recommend the removal of all soft hyphens.

NB. They play havoc with exact searches in Bible sofware.

DavidHaslam commented 6 years ago

The use of soft hyphens can become ridiculous!

        <verse osisID="Gen.4.4" sID="Gen.4.4"/> while Abel brought some of the first­born from his flock, that is, some fat slices
         from them. The Eter­nal favoured Abel and his pres­-
         <milestone type="column" n="2"/>
         ent;
        <verse eID="Gen.4.4"/>

Here the word present is split by a column break, but contains a hyphen as well as a soft hyphen where the word is split.

In this example, the words first­born and Eter­nal also contain a soft hyphen.

NB. GitHub hides these!

cf. In Exodus, the word firstborn is found both with and without a soft hyphen, and more often with an ordinary hyphen!

Such inconsistencies need to be resolved.

DavidHaslam commented 6 years ago

See also #9

DavidHaslam commented 6 years ago

Most of the soft hyphens were found in the existing XML files, but there were also 129 soft hyphens in 1 Chronicles.usfm

I've just removed them from the USFM file in my branch.

DavidHaslam commented 6 years ago

NB. Multiple (ordinary) hyphens should be systematically replaced by the horizontal bar.