Hi Jeroen, I have look a TEI and believe me the learning curve is not the problem. It is simply too ambiguous. Then there are as you mentioned all the rules how to do things. The problems you mention, also show its technical inability. Though that may be my honest opinion. regards Keith. Am 14.09.2012 um 23:28 schrieb Jeroen Hellingman <jeroen@bohol.ph>:
Over a period of about 15 years, I've contributed over 500 ebooks to Project Gutenberg, and even as a single individual, I have trouble maintaining that bulk -- and even while I have the luxury of working with a decent master format, (TEI, which from a strictly technical point of few is the best choice, but suffers from a extremely steep learning curve, which makes it a bridge-too-far for most volunteers) and tuned-to-my-requirement tool-set (my tei2html scripts), I am reaching a point that just maintaining that sub-collection (fixing errors, improving tagging of early texts, etc.) gets a considerable task. (And then I can regenerate HTML and ePub files with a few keypresses, and have everything in a revision control system)