joshua said:
I wanted to add my personal holy grail that hopefully a TEI-Lite master format will help bring about... A single master document.
i've detailed this on another reply i am writing, which is still in progress, but i'll headline it here: a methodology of a "master document" is worthwhile, but there's no reason that master _must_ be in t.e.i. any form of markup that captures all the information that's deemed necessary can serve capably as a master.
A master document format that is auto-converted to the others (at an acceptable level) would be wonderful and, imo, worth a little extra up front effort to prepare it.
well, yes, it would be wonderful. and worth the effort. and if it didn't take much extra effort, but instead was intuitive even to untrained volunteers, that would be _really_ special...
If someone could get a working bit of code in place, I'd be happy to start testing it like crazy and work on old texts to get it converted to that format.
i've already got a "bit of code in place" using z.m.l. -- a.k.a. zen markup language, a.k.a. zero markup language -- but i doubt you're interested in testing it _at_all_, let alone "like crazy", which is quite alright with me, thank you very much, as i don't need _your_ help... nonetheless, the beta-test is open to all, by e-mailing: zml_talk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com -bowerbird