From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 13:41:38 EDT
Jony Rosenne wrote on 06/27/2003 08:32:11 AM:
> I am under the impression that the existing scientific encodings of the
> Bible are encode with the help of some kind of mark up, and maybe this
is
> how they should continue.
The existing eBHS texts use an encoding in which the order of characters
is significant (there are no notions like canonical ordering and canonical
combining classes), and several positioning distinctions (including three
different meteg-vowel positionings) are represented using distinct
characters.
Newer projects are using XML, but for things markup is suitable for.
Suggesting that things like vowel-vowel or meteg-vowel orderings be
handled by markup does not provide a solution for scores of users, such as
publishers needing to typset the text, content providers trying to deliver
content using common web browsers, seminary professors creating lessons
and students writing papers...
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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