----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Noring" <jon@noring.name>
Jon Ingram wrote:
Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
1) Btw Josh, has any "formal" working group been put together to continue with PGTEI development? Or is it mostly Marcello and you? Is there a dedicated PGTEI mailing list or forum anywhere?
Formal only in the sense that I bug Marcello mercilessly with reports (though I've laid off him recently). In the meantime, anyone that *wants* in on things can message me backline. I've got lots of stuff up on a server that I can point you to for testing/comments. Quick-n-Dirty update: TEI -> Text: working on how we want to deal with unicode characters. Otherwise, pretty much ready for public comment. TEI -> HTML: little things keep showing up, ie, support for overline styles need to be added, the XML header causes IE to enter "quirks" mode which can create some strangeness in rendering, svg is converted to png instead of passing the SVG directly to the browser for rendering (this may need to stay this way because of non-universal SVG support in browsers). Almost ready to open a call for CSS contributions to create a PG standard style. I hope to have a few alternate styles available at launch, too. TEI -> PDF: this one has the most "weirdness" PDF tables are just a large pain in the patoot. They require special massaging that the other two formats don't need. SVG is again converted to PNG and inserted into the PDF instead of a vector based insert which would scale better (I think this is what is happening ... need to check with Marcello on this one). The overline style doesn't work here either. I'm holding off major movement on PGTEI until the new DP version rollout is done. Some of the minds I want to tap most are going to be busy dealing with new DP fun.
I've been perusing (catching up on) the various forums at DP's site and it does not appear there's a forum which would be a good match for PGTEI and other future-tech-development topics.
I'd say Future Features for now. After the DP rollout, I may beg the powers-that-be for a new forum topic for TEI. Josh (aka JHutch on the DP Forums)