[tei-council] Draft Roma Replacement Specification

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 10 Nov 2013, at 13:00, James Cummings <James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> I would add that we will not have unlimited money for this, and that it will
>> have to be an agile development, without fixed outcomes.
> 
> Agreed. But it is also useless to throw money at something 
> without any criteria -- if they produce something that doesn't 
> enable the basic most common tasks of ODD editing.

ah, if only we agreed what those "basic tasks" were! as it stands, you have
effectively specified that they must write a full XML editor with
the (unstated) assumption that it will all be done with form filling, and 
be able to accept arbitrary TEI input.
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Sebastian Rahtz      
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