[tei-council] 1.0.1 release text

[James Cummings]

Laurent Romary wrote:
> Should not we provide pointers to the main pages concerned with this  
> announcement: Entry point to the guidelines, Roma, <measureGrp>, XSLT  
> update, etc. ?
> Laurent

Laurent,

I'd include the change in att.naming of @ref taking multiple URIs in the 
list of things changed in this release.  Although a corrigible error which 
was just corrected, it still is significant. (And we shouldn't be afraid of 
pointing out where we have corrected bugs...)

Best,
-James

> 
> Le 2 févr. 08 à 21:33, Sebastian Rahtz a écrit :
> 
>> I propose the following as release notes for
>> 1.0.1, for which I will be pressing the Big Red
>> Button tomorrow. I will leave it to Laurent
>> to make a public announcement, using any
>> or all of the text below (but don't send anything
>> until I confirm its done, Laurent!).
>>
>>
>> ********************
>>
>> After the P5 1.0 release on November 1st 2007,
>> the TEI Technical Council has continued to refine
>> the Guidelines and respond to error reports.
>> with over 300 sets of changes committed to Sourceforge.
>>
>> The vast majority of changes are to the text,
>> at the grammatical, technical, and explanatory
>> level.
>>
>> We would like to acknowledge here the
>> pre-eminent part played by Brett Zamir,
>> who has read every chapter carefully,
>> and made a huge number of important
>> corrections and clarifications.
>>
>> A very few changes have been made which
>> affect generated schemas:
>>
>> * model.gLike was added to the content model of <measureGrp>
>> * <ptr>  was adjusted so that either @cRef or @target is mandatory
>> * an error generating schema from attribute classes was fixed
>> * some Schematron rules have been adjusted
>>
>> This release also includes a complete set of
>> reference documentation generated for Chinese,
>> French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
>> The translation work is not finished yet, but
>> is starting to be useable for these languages.
>>
>> For the first time, the Guidelines are available
>> in PDF as well as HTML. The design of this
>> printable format was a collaborative effort by
>> many members of the TEI Board of Directors
>> and Technical Council, coordinated and
>> implemented by Sebastian Rahtz.
>>
>> New releases of Roma and the TEI XSL stylesheet family
>> accompany this release, correcting reported
>> bugs and providing more internationalisation.
>>
>> -- 
>> Sebastian Rahtz
>>
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>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>
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