RickGross
06-27-2006, 03:28 PM
When a Bible text comes to BibleWorks, we put it into a standard format (specifically, "reference followed by verse on a single line") so that the BibleWorks exegetical tools can work with all versions equally. An exception is that we preserve any embedded information (called "tags"), such as Strong's numbers, that we get from the publisher, so that tools that use these tags can find them in the texts. Existing tags are morphological and provide no useful formatting information to our copy and print routines.
None of our texts, including the poetic texts, have come to us from the publishers with print formatting tags (e.g., "[Start Poetry Line Here]") included. If they had, we would not only have preserved them (as other tags) but also created options in our copy and print routines to use the information in the tags to format poetic text as such. It would have been great if the tags had come with the texts. Because the tags aren't there, however, we would now have to go through each poetic text line-by-line and insert them, a very labor-intensive process. Once the tags were there, it would be a relatively simple matter to instruct copy and print routines to use them to format output text. Perhaps someday we'll have enough manpower to edit the texts to insert such tags, but it's not likely in the foreseeable future, in that we have to concentrate our limited resources on continually improving our exegetical capabilities, those being our chief focus.
Last update: RG/June 27, 2006
None of our texts, including the poetic texts, have come to us from the publishers with print formatting tags (e.g., "[Start Poetry Line Here]") included. If they had, we would not only have preserved them (as other tags) but also created options in our copy and print routines to use the information in the tags to format poetic text as such. It would have been great if the tags had come with the texts. Because the tags aren't there, however, we would now have to go through each poetic text line-by-line and insert them, a very labor-intensive process. Once the tags were there, it would be a relatively simple matter to instruct copy and print routines to use them to format output text. Perhaps someday we'll have enough manpower to edit the texts to insert such tags, but it's not likely in the foreseeable future, in that we have to concentrate our limited resources on continually improving our exegetical capabilities, those being our chief focus.
Last update: RG/June 27, 2006