On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:54:35 +0200, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
I feel Jim is raising artificial objections he knows we cannot overcome. If he doesn't want to learn TEI and he doesn't feel like proofing a TEI text in emacs, fine. But then, he should step aside and let other people do this work.
I find this very offensive. I came home, and was reading happily enough through the threads until this. I differ with you quite profoundly about the implementation of XML, and, I'm sure, several other issues. But my opinions are honest, and based on what I believe is best for PG as a whole. I do not "raise artificial objections" -- these are the expectations I have had for XML as far back as I can remember, and they are expectations regularly assumed, if not met, by people who evangelize XML. I "learned TEI" (not all of it, of course) with the hope of using it in PG, in late 2001/early 2002, and I marked up my first book in XML in February, 2002, which was long before I ever heard your name. If you can't accept that I am debating these issues in good faith, there is no point in continuing this discussion. jim