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                   *             TEI P2            *
                   *   new fascicle now available  *
                   *        Chapter 13 (TE)        *
                   *         Base Tag Set          *
                   *    for Terminological Data    *
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We are happy to announce that a new fascicle of the second draft of the
TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange is now
available for public comment.
 
As readers of this list will recall, TEI P2 is being distributed for
comment as a series of fascicles or part-issues, each containing a
complete chapter of P2, as and when the texts were available.  (File
TEI ED J8, "Obtaining the Second Version of the TEI Guidelines," has the
details, if you have forgotten).
 
The present fascicle contains chapter 13 of P2, which describes
encoding for interchange of terminological data.  Terminological
data are usually made up of sets of terminological entries, which can
take the form of terminological databases (TDBs) or can be used
to print hardcopy terminological documents, such as terminological
dictionaries, technical vocabularies, or thesauri.
 
Texts of P2 are being made available in a number of different electronic
formats. These include plain screen-readable text (filetype DOC), LaTeX
(filetype TEX), PostScript (filetype PS) and of course SGML (filetypes
P2X and REF).  In addition, this chapter includes three DTDs as well,
named TEITERM2 DTD, TEITE2N DTD, and TEITE2F DTD.  To get electronic
copies of this fascicle from the TEI-L fileserver, all you need do is
send an ordinary email note to the address
 
      LISTSERV@UICVM  (or [log in to unmask])
 
containing the line
 
      GET P2te xxx
 
(where xxx is one of the filetypes mentioned above)
 
To obtain the DTDs associated with this chapter, type
 
      GET TEITERM2 DTD
      GET TEITE2N DTD
      GET TEITE2F DTD
 
The documents you request will be returned to you automatically as
e-mail messages.  Beware! some of the files are quite large, and so may
be delayed.  You will also receive an automatic notification that the
file is on its way to you.  (If you receive something illegible in a
'Listserv packed format', please contact one of the editors directly to
see about getting you the file in a more useful form.)
 
The same files are available via anonymous FTP from the SGML Project at
the University of Exeter.  To access these files, your computer system
must be on the InterNet.  If it is, you should be able to give the
command
 
    FTP sgml1.ex.ac.uk  [ or  FTP 144.173.6.61]
 
When you are connected to the Exeter SGMLbox, type the following
commands:
 
   cd tei/p2/drafts
   get p2te.p2x
   get p2te.doc
   get p2te.ps
   get p2te.ref
   get teiterm2.dtd
   get teite2n.dtd
   get teite2f.dtd
 
(note that the filename *must* be given in all lower-case letters)
 
The files may also be obtained from the Markup-L Listserv fileserver
in Germany, and from Professor Syun Tutiya in Japan.
 
For more details on these and other sources of TEI information, please
order copies of files
 
  EDJ8 MEMO (describes how to retrieve electronic copies of TEI P2
             and the various formats in which they are available)
  EDJ9 MEMO (describes how to request paper copies of TEI P2, for
             those without electronic mail access)
 
(on the Exeter file server, get file tei/intro/edj8.doc)
 
-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
 Lou Burnard
 
 23 December 1992