On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:46:36 +0100, Jeroen Hellingman <jeroen@bohol.ph> wrote: | Marcello Perathoner wrote: | | > Bowerbird@aol.com wrote: | > | >>> Could someone please explain the benefit of semantic tagging and | >>> why it won't horribly lengthen the amount of time required to | >>> produce an eBook? | >> | | You'll need about one hour to add very basic level TEI tagging to a | simple work, such as a novel. For scientific works with loads of tables, | footnotes, foreign citations, and numerous cross references, it can take | several days, but they will be increasingly required to be able to | handle such works at all. | | The learning curve for basic TEI is not too steep, and can be learned as | easy as HTML in a few hours, then as you encounter more difficult | constructs, you can gradually absorb more of the stuff. For books | requiring special things, we will probably end up having specialists. | | Important in this stage is that we will have tools available such that | people can easily validate what they are doing. Last time I marked up a text by hand was, Hmmmm 19 years ago using nroff, and a great pain in the **** it was. Then someone invented WYSYWYG (What You See is What You Get), and producing properly laid out text became a doddle. Surely you are not suggesting that we go back the Dark Ages, nay Neolithic times? Which Windoze WYSIWYG application produces TEI tagging, to whatever standard PG proposes? -- Dave F