[tei-council] Fwd: Re: TEI for Google Docs?

[Kevin Hawkins]

Another message where we could use broader input than what our small 
group, formed to offer technical advice on samples, can come up with on 
our own.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: TEI for Google Docs?
Date: 	Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:46:27 -0800
From: 	Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca>
Reply-To: 	mholmes at uvic.ca
Organization: 	UVic HCMC
To: 	Ranjith Unnikrishnan <ranjith at google.com>
CC: 	Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>, 
"James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk" <James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk>, 
"laurent.romary at inria.fr" <laurent.romary at inria.fr>



On 12-03-06 05:38 PM, Ranjith Unnikrishnan wrote:
>  Interesting suggestion. I'm not sure if the Docs team would be
>  interested in supporting export to TEI but can ask. What would the use
>  of such functionality be?

One example: Various journals and conferences in our field use TEI as
the format for abstracts and papers. People would be able to author
these documents in Google Docs and save them in TEI.

Cheers,
Martin

>  On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kevin Hawkins
>  <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
>  <mailto:kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>>  wrote:
>
>      Hi again Ranjith,
>
>      I've been hearing of interest in our community of having Google Docs
>      export in TEI.  I think this would actually be fairly easy.  There
>      are two ways we could proceed:
>
>      a) Produce a Google Docs file that includes at least one instance of
>      every paragraph style, list style, and formatting (bold, italic,
>      etc.). Then one of us produces this same document encoded in TEI for
>      you.
>
>      b) Produce a mapping of every paragraph style, list style, and
>      formatting (bold, italic, etc.) in Google Docs to TEI elements,
>      explaining how to build the hierarchy.
>
>      Please let us know if either of these would work for you!
>
>      Kevin
>
>

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)