On 12/21/05, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
Jon Ingram wrote:
Indeed. It would be more sensible to mark the poem (indeed the whole work) in TEI, and use that as the canonical version.
I can definitely agree with this; I think TEI, even minimal TEI, is probably a better canonical form than XHTML. But TEI-encoded text has to exist, and it has to be made available to the public so they can get the canonical form if they desire. If TEI exists, use it, if not use the best encoding available. I don't think Mr. Thompson is prepared to create a canonical TEI version of the work just to solve this one problem (although it would be cool if he did). The Transcriber's Notes should simply refer to whatever canonical form is available.
Actually, I've intended to use TEI or something more capable to create a canonical version from the start. My original questions merely had to do with the plain text version, which I'm trying to prepare without losing too much information. Wally