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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
