Is opening `\p` necessary?

[jcuenod]

Supposing I have:

\id COL - my-translation
\c 1
\v 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy---the brother,
\v 2 to the saints in Colossae---the faithful brothers in Christ---grace to you and peace from God our father.
\p
\v 3 We always give prayerful thanks about you to God, the father of our lord Jesus Christ,

I get errors parsing this (with ignore_errors, I lose vv 1-2). If I add a \p after \c 1, it works as expected. Is this according to spec?

[joelthe1]

According to the USFM documentation here's the possible things that can show up after \c (which does not include \v):

From the USFM Docs

[jcuenod]

This confused me a little because there's a list under this image that includes:

An optional collection of one or more embedded elements.

Under that list is [Verse] — v

[joelthe1]

Agreed, that is not clear. I have raised this with the USFM committee.