Jonathan Ingram wrote:
and one of the best ways to *fail* to change their mind is to plonk 1400 pages of documentation in front of them and say 'here's what you should be using,
Then don't do that. You don't plonk the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual (5000 pages) in front of your secretary if you want her to type a few pages in M$-Word. You just give her a "Word for Dummies" book and that is all she needs. She don't need to know about the difference between AGP and PCI-X bus. The full TEI spec explains the DTD and what not. Nobody needs that except the implementors. There are many gentle introductions to TEI-Lite floating around. And thats another advantage of using a standard. You don't have to write that stuff yourself. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org