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The following Bible passages have been useful to illustrate certain
aspects of format coding. Discussion of these passages in workshops
can be used to assess how well the format coding system is
understood. Translation project staff should be expected to handle
these passages correctly.
- 1.
- PSA 1. This is a good example of the use of
\b, \q1, and \q2 to separate the various concepts
of a psalm into readily visible groups.
- 2.
- PRO 6:16-19. This illustrates multiple levels of
\q. The British Edition of the Good News
Bible uses \q1 to \q7 to produce this section.
- 3.
- 1CH 9:10-12. This section illustrates the use of
\q for a non-poetic passage. Each group of priests is started with
a \q1.
- 4.
- NEH 12:12-21. This section is a typical table
which occurs in a Bible text.
- 5.
- NAM 2:1-2. This section illustrates the use of
\m after a poetic section. There has been some debate as to whether
the positioning of the parenthesis in the British Edition in verse 2 was
correct. Some would have preferred (\v 2 The... instead of
\v 2 (The....
- 6.
- JDG 11. This is an illustration of a chapter which occurs in
the middle of a paragraph. The answer to this puzzle is simply to
start the paragraph with
\pc and to type the the chapter and
verse without any paragraph marker between them (\c 11 \v
1).
- 7.
- ISA 19. This is a case where the drop chapter number confuses
the graphic representation of a paragraph. The solution is simply to treat
the beginning of both verses as beginning of paragraphs.
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1999-05-05