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\rem should ignore markers to end of line #77

Open mhosken opened 2 months ago

mhosken commented 2 months ago

\rem as a remark should ignore everything up to the end of the line, in USFM, rather than being treated as a paragraph style. This allows the \rem line to contain markers, etc. and for those to be ignored. It enables things to be \remmed out.

The difficulty is that in USX \rem is a element. We can still keep it as such, but it is a rather special paragraph.

Do we want to do the same with all the headers? Are there any muiltiline header elements?

KentSpiel commented 2 months ago

I do not see that is it practical for \rem to act as you suggest. I would like to see additional remark syntax added:

No we do not have any multi-line header elements. We do not even have a table element containing all the rows of a table. The only well defined containers we have are sidebars and notes.

By the way, does the extension file allow us to define custom remark markers?