Bezae Question

[Robb B]

On GNT-BEZ I have the text set up like the Read-Me recommends (show as separate verses with a narrow font for references). Before the updated version (1.6) and re-installing 7.1 tonight, this would produce a continuous column of text. Now it shows space between many (most?) of the verses. Was this an intentional change, or something related to 1.6 of Bezae? If I choose show as paragraphs I get continuous text. Here's what it used to look like:

 

 

 

Here's what it looks like now:

 

 

 

Thanks for patience with my ignorance of how this should look!

[Helen Brown]

We have looked at this, and there is a reason for it. In paragraph mode we want the lines to appear like in the manuscript. An extra character was added to force a new line within the paragraph, except when the new verse starts within a line of the Codex, as in Matthew 2:2. This extra character corrects the appearance in paragraph, but unfortunately it does add an extra space in Verse mode.

[Robb B]

So does this mean that the suggested setting should be paragraphs rather than separate verses to reproduce the original look of the manuscript as closely as possible?

[Helen Brown]

That is correct.