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A TEI-Conformant version of the 1611 text of the Bible
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Canonical Psalm titles #10

Closed DavidHaslam closed 7 years ago

DavidHaslam commented 7 years ago

These currently use the TEI head element.

Currently there is no XML attribute that would distinguish the 116 canonical Psalm titles from the noncanonical descriptions at the start of other chapters.

These canonical Psalm titles in the KJV correspond to those in the Hebrew text.

lb42 commented 7 years ago

I am now thinking it might be better to tag the "noncanonical descriptions" (the summaries at the starts of other chapters) with something other than <head> e.g. <opener>. The titles of the Psalms really are <head>s though: could add a @type='title' vel sim maybe to distinguish from the <head> containing their number ("Psalm 12")

DavidHaslam commented 7 years ago

If TEI permits that and it seems appropriate, then go for it.

In OSIS also, <abbr expansion="Chapter">CHAP.</abbr> would be appropriate inside the head element.

These titles are best thought of as "chapter label", and correspond to the USFM tag \cl

Then there's the thorny question of Roman numerals.

Should we apply any particular XML markup to these chapter numbers?

It might be thought of as cheating to use the abbr element in OSIS for this purpose, yet it's a kludge that could be helpful.

<abbr expansion="119">CXIX</abbr>.

lb42 commented 7 years ago

Cf discussion and fix reported on issue #4 : I don't think "CXIX" is an abbreviation for "119" : they are just different ways of writing the same thing. In TEI you could do this with <num value="119">CXIX</num> if you wanted, but it seems a bit pointless to me.

DavidHaslam commented 7 years ago

Not so pointless if for downstream uses that could save developers the chore of converting Roman numerals to decimal.

I agree, it's not truly an abbreviation, but OSIS had no equivalent to <num value="119">CXIX</num>.

Maybe that's an enhancement to propose, at least for use within CrossWire ?

lb42 commented 7 years ago

There are other more reliable ways of finding the number of a chapter than translating the roman number! e.g. . It could also be supplied by means of an @n attribute, as I do for the verses.