[both a public and private reply] Josh wrote:

Jon Noring wrote:

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Also, anyone here interesting in converting the markup to TEI? (It should be relatively straightforward since I use a structural/semantic markup which is relatively compatible with TEI markup principles.)]

Jon, I'm currently working closely with Marcello on the PGTEI spec. I'd love to have My Antonia to convert to TEI.

Either send me a .zip file of the HTML you've got or give me a link to a download site and I'll put it on my to-do list. I can probably get to it middle to late next week.

Thanks! The valid XHTML 1.1 version in its current state (which is now of pretty low error rate, but could be improved as Bowerbird and I have been "lively" discussing), is found at: http://www.openreader.org/myantonia/ Any of the links to the "XHTML 1.1" versions (using different stylesheets) brings up the same identical XHTML 1.1 document, such as: http://www.openreader.org/myantonia/basic-design-nopagenum/myantonia.html Undoubtedly there are some things I've done in markup which could have been done better, especially with regards to "better mapability" to TEI. I certainly would like feedback on this. We can also chat by phone (on my penny) or on Skype or other free VoIP, if that will be more efficient for you to resolve anything in it which may not be clear (I'd like to know that, too.) Of course, everything in the "front matter" section will probably require more work. I'm not sure how you want to handle things like the Table of Contents. I have planned to revamp and simplify the front matter section (for now I tried to emulate the original layout of the Title Page, for example, but plan something more generic and simple for the final product since most front-matter stuff is metadata rather than content-related.) The encoding itself is pure ASCII (thus UTF-8 conformant) and all the special characters are represented by both numeric and mnemonic character entities, the manifest of which is located at the top of the document. With regards to fixing of the few remaining errors, I'll document that from now on so the TEI version can be simultaneously fixed. Thanks! Jon Noring