--- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
I don't think we'll get PG to post texts in non-standard cooked-up formats.
Neither do I, and I don't want them to. Hopefully we'll either use TEI, or a markup which can easily and losslessly transformed into TEI. However, there are a lot of people out there, including a lot of DP volunteers, who are unconvinced about the utility of XML, 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, come back when you've finished reading' -- this is true even of TEI-lite, which has some foibles you have to see past (overly terse tags, for example -- at least to my mind :) ). I used to be one of the members of the 'undecided about XML' camp myself. I've gradually changed my mind, and I'm working on helping to change the minds of those I'm working with. I also don't just automatically accept the TEI-way as being best for the applications I wish to use it for -- so I've been developing my own structured markup which I'm happy with, and which happens to have converged very closely to the corresponding TEI markup. As I said in my previous email, this makes me much more confident to accept the use of TEI-style markup in areas where I haven't had the time to investigate alternatives. Those of you who aren't involved in DP will probably see nothing more about this until the day that 85% of new PG ebooks come with a TEI edition :). -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail