proposed letter to Faulhaber, Chesnutt

[Merrilee Proffitt]

Yes, it's true, and Charles will say that the proper TEI way is "not 
obvious and too hard," and that he wanted to have something that was easy 
to use (I though emacs was easy enough, but he disagreed).  So he should be 
encouraged to make the transcription dtd available in the proper extension 
file way, in addition to the way he has it available now (and the TEI would 
I guess archive the extension files and not the NoteTab apparatus.  This 
will be kind of a trick, because the DTD is a standalone deal, and as far 
as I know, it was never properly extension-ized.

Merrilee

At 09:25 AM 12/6/2002 +0900, you wrote:

>Dear collegues,
>
>I agree mostly, but have a little quibble:
>
>John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu> writes:
>
> > 2.  The TEI Consortium would not, by housing the materials, commit to
> > further developing them, migrating them, etc.: we would simply keep and
> > deliver them in the form in which you deposit them with us.
>
>I might asking the obvious, but last time I looked at Charles
>Faulhaber's site, the only format the material was offered in was a
>self-extracting executable archive that only could be run on some
>minor commercial operating system.  We should at least expect (and
>then, would have to check) that the material offered from the TEI
>website does indeed conform to the Guidelines
>
>
>All the best,
>
>Christian
>
>--
>
>  Christian Wittern
>  Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
>  47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN