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Semantic division (add \sd#) #22
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This would be very helpful for us as we are currently (ab)using the section markers for identifying chunks of text that are suitable for translating at one time. Our chunk markers are like paragraph markers except that they are intended to help translators, not end-user readers (hence they often don't line up with the
Seems like these semantic division markers would be more suitable for this purpose than the milestones (#33). Edit: I realize now that #7 is really what we are looking for! |
Proposal
\sd#
for "semantic division"#
represents the level of semantic division.\sd
=\sd1
A companion USX 3.0 proposal exists at: ubsicap/usx#16
Detail
Biblica's "Books of the Bible" is an example of a text which requires a hierarchy of vertical spacing to divide the text into sections in a way that is conceptually similar to the use of a sequence of levels of heading texts (i.e.
\ms#
and\s#
) in many other texts. This semantic division space is dissimilar in that these division locations do not (usually) contain text, but rather whitespace, a decorative division marker or horizontal line, pagination location etc.This proposal can also help to constrain the use of
\b
, which primarily denotes whitespace (and strictly speaking only for poetic stanza breaks) -- which does not represent this 'semantic division' need at all.Examples
Matthew 13.51-54 (NIV "Books of the Bible")
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