[tei-council] proposal: call for stylesheets

[Julia Flanders]

The motivation was a desire to offer a wider range of stylesheets 
that work with TEI than are currently available at the TEI web site, 
and to do so with as little cost to the TEI as possible. We assumed 
that there are by now a number of examples out there; projects have 
presumably developed stylesheets for their own use, which could be 
rendered sharable without too much effort.

There's also the possibility that making this a sort of community 
project would motivate people to make and share improvements on the 
most promising samples. ("perfect, if only it did XYZ...")

So I wasn't imagining that people would whip up a stylesheet just for 
the competition, but that they would take something they already have 
and document and/or polish it for sharing purposes.

>For those of us who had to leave early, can you summarize the 
>rationale? At first sight, this
>is a slightly strange request. Writing a set of stylesheets to 
>render TEI documents well
>is a serious exercise in software engineering, not a weekend bit of 
>fun to win a competition :-}
>
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