[tei-council] Comments on Getting Started

Fri Aug 22 04:50:41 EDT 2008

Hi all,

following the request of Peter and of the council I post here my 
comments on the Getting Started document.

In general, I really like the cut and the way the goals are expressed. I 
do have so fare two main comments:

1. I think that a short chapter on text analysis would be of great help. 
 From my teaching experience I have noticed that for someone that it is 
really complicated for someone that is used to work on Word to 
understand the rationale of semantic markup and use elements like <div> 
and <head>; tables are really complicated. Once these concepts are 
passed, it's then relatively easier understand other kinf of inline markup.

2. The fact that we are including screenshots and editor specific 
instruction imply that the document will need a regular (and frequent) 
maintenance as editors tend to change very quickly. Versions of editors, 
processors and browsers are an issue to be considered carefully. For 
instance: for Oxygen are we offering support for the full program of 
just for the Author version of it? etc.

I volunteer for helping with the writing, if Peter, Arianna and the 
others (I forgot who else is in the group) need it.

I hope that helps.
Elena

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Dr Elena Pierazzo
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