Hi Keith, TEI is not just a bunch of tags, similar to HTML, which is fairly limited; TEI has evolved into a kind of meta-standard, describing how you can encode a wide range of text. Finding your way in that, tweaking it to your own set of requirements, getting tools to produce something neat (ePub anybody) out of it, etc. will take you considerable time. I think once you've coded a few types of books in TEI. Everybody who does TEI does a tiny subset, including me... The technical inability is not something we can blame TEI for, it is the difficulty of the underlying problem -- finding a common denominator to describe any type of book produced since the first clay-tables where produced 5000 years ago. That problem, by its very nature is extremely hard. Jeroen. On 2012-09-16 11:02, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi Jeroen,
I have look a TEI and believe me the learning curve is not the problem. It is simply too ambiguous. Then there are as you mentioned all the rules how to do things.
The problems you mention, also show its technical inability. Though that may be my honest opinion.
regards Keith.