[tei-council] Comments on getting started

[David Sewell]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Peter Boot wrote:

> My preference would be [...] to write the document
> based on oXygen, and have appendices, maybe even wiki pages, about how
> to do this in other programs. (I would like to avoid people having to
> print a document that is very repetitive).
>
> What do others feel? Extending this to other platforms could even become
> a community effort.

Yes, I agree with using oXygen as the "canonical" base description, and
link to other how-to illustrations. Of course we will have to come up
with a mechanism for that. It might be easier for other contributors to
use a Wiki authoring environment than to do this in the form of TEI-XML
stored in SourceForge.

David

-- 
David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager
ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press
PO Box 801079, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA
Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903
Email: dsewell at virginia.edu   Tel: +1 434 924 9973
Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/