DavidTroidl
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7 years ago According to the article mentioned:
In most modern Torah scrolls and Jewish editions of the Bible, there
are two types of /parashot/, an "open portion" (/parashah petuhah/)
and a "closed portion" (/parashah setumah/).So the parashot include both the PE and SAMEKH markers. These are by no means definitive in determining breaks in the text. They can occur in the middle of a verse or chapter. They can also span multiple chapters. If PE were to indicate a paragraph, then Isaiah chapters 51-64 would be all one paragraph.
We indicate their presence in the text, and leave it up to the reader to interpret the appropriate meaning.
As to the SWORD features, I would prefer to have a continuous text, rather than verse per line. The front ends seem routinely to interpret a chapter break, even when encoded as a milestone, as a break in the flow of the text. This should be sufficient for readability.
Peace,
David
On 1/29/2017 4:42 PM, David Frank Haslam wrote:
Does the OSIS source text make any special provision to encode the parashah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parashah found in some MSS?
There are 1168 instances of the Hebrew letter PE terminating a verse in the OSHB. Those mean "the end of a parashah". You could interpret it to mean "end of a paragraph", roughly speaking.
Currently the XML makes no use of the OSIS element |
...
|Might there be some real advantage in doing so?
And related to this question, should the SWORD module for OSHB include
Feature=NoParagraphs
which for some front-ends (e.g. Xiphos) at least, has the effect to make the /default/ setting as Verse Per Line after the module is first installed.
cf. The letter PE at the end of a parashah is a bit like the Pilcrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow symbol at the start of a paragraph in translations such as the King James Bible.
/It would be interesting to see how well these correlate to a PE at the end of the previous verse./
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Does the OSIS source text make any special provision to encode the parashah found in some MSS?
There are 1168 instances of the Hebrew letter PE terminating a verse in the OSHB. Those mean "the end of a parashah". You could interpret it to mean "end of a paragraph", roughly speaking.
Currently the XML makes no use of the OSIS element
<p>... </p>Might there be some real advantage in doing so?
And related to this question, should the SWORD module for OSHB include
Feature=NoParagraphs
which for some front-ends (e.g. Xiphos) at least, has the effect to make the default setting as Verse Per Line after the module is first installed.
cf. The letter PE at the end of a parashah is a bit like the Pilcrow symbol at the start of a paragraph in translations such as the King James Bible.
It would be interesting to see how well these correlate to a PE at the end of the previous verse.