marcello said:

What I've done with Faust is to reformat the text file in a sensible way

and then use perl to automatically add TEI markup.

bingo. now do that to the whole library. that's what i've been suggesting all along.

I advise to use a perl script to add the basic markup and to refine the markup in a second markup-proofing step.

i advise to write a program to add the basic markup (perl is fine, but so is any other tool someone uses), and then to refine your _program_ until you no longer need to do _any_ further refinements of its output. (or until it's easier to refine output than the program.) in the long run, doing things _that_ way will save you _tons_and_tons_ of unnecessary, one-time-only work. and, again, this is what i've been suggesting all along. now someone will come along and say, "that can't be done". and then i'll say "you're wrong, it can be done, i've done it." rinse and repeat, month after month, for nearly a year now. and no, i _won't_ do it for you, just to "prove" that i can... -bowerbird