Chris Little wrote: > Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote: >> First, please let me apologize. By the personal attacks in your message, >> you may have gotten the impression that I was attacking you personally >> instead of promoting the idea that OSIS is not appropriate to set forth >> as a standard format for use in Bible translation and Scripture file >> archiving. > > I didn't take it as a personal attack, but I did take it, by the > manner in which it was delivered to sword-devel (really not an > appropriate forum for discussing the merits of OSIS), as an offensive > and abusive attack with a specific intent to stir controversy. I'm sorry. That was not my intention. My intention was to get people to THINK about the wisdom or lack thereof of using OSIS based on the merits or lack thereof of that standard versus possible alternatives that exist or could be created. It is possible, and even likely, that I'm not the only one who would believe that OSIS leaves a great deal of room for improvement. > Your complaints boil down to basically two categories: > > 1) You want preservation of presentational forms of quotation marks. > This was addressed at length already, yet manages to earn about half > of the text of your complaints against OSIS. I'm sorry it's not > codified in prose for you yet, but everyone at the last OSIS TC > meeting was in agreement that it was already part of the standard (<q > n="'">-type encoding). Apparently, amending the documentation to reflect those changes and openly publishing the results has not been a high priority.
This change, once fully implemented in documentation and properly published, would elevate OSIS from unusable without modification to usable but not the best choice for any of the applications I'm responsible for. Thank you for the improvement. My position will not change until I see the open standard living up to its name and being openly published in its "current" form. After that really, fully happens, I'll be content to oppose OSIS less vigorously. Until then, please don't assume malice on my part, and I'll try to do the same for you, in spite of our obvious disagreements. I have no delusion that we will ever agree on everything concerning OSIS, but I would hope we could be civil about it... maybe even Christ-like. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
