----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Gueth" <creeva@gmail.com>
Now I'm not going to get in the middle of this on going feud, but what readers do we have for each format? The TEI formats are listed there but what do you use to read them so you do not see all the markup encoding. Firefox shows the markup when you open the file. Notepad shows the markup (to be expected). MS Word just crashes upon opening because it says that there are problems with the contents.
Good question, Brent. The answer is that TEI is not really meant to be read by humans (just as HTML source code is not really meant to be read by humans). The great thing about those TEI docs is that I only produced 1 file (the TEI document) and then a server automatically generated the ASCII, HTML and PDF formats. I didn't have to manually fiddle with multiple files. The TEI file is a text file, so technically you CAN read it in Notepad (or any text editor of your choice) but it won't be all that pretty. Hopefully, the resulting files *from* it will be pretty, though. The reason TEI is nice for this is that it provides a consistent markup method that is fairly easy for a computer to manipulate to "output" formats. if you have any further questions, fire away. I'll be happy to try to answer them. Josh