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* TEI P2 *
* new fascicle now available *
* Chapter 6 (CO) *
* Elements Available in *
* All TEI DTDs *
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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 6 of P2, which describes
elements which may appear in any kind of text and the tags used to mark
them in all TEI document types. Included are elements associated with
paragraphs, highlighting and quotation, names, numbers, dates,
abbreviations, addresses, simple editorial changes, links and
cross references, lists, notes, annotation, and indexing, reference
systems, bibliographic citations and references, verse and drama,
and arbitrary segmentation used for analytic purposes. The publication
of this chapter and Chapter 7, the base tag set for prose (on
October 24, 1992) marks a turning point in P2: it is now possible to
tag a substantial portion of many types of documents using the
published fascicles of P2. We will of course continue to work on other
fascicles, and they will be announced as they become available. Thank
you for your patience!
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). (Chapter CO is being made available initially only in
DOC, PS, P2X, and REF forms; a LaTeX form will follow in a few days.)
In addition, this chapter includes two DTDs as well, named
TEICORE2 DTD and TEIPL2 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 P2co xxx
(where xxx is one of the filetypes mentioned above)
To obtain the DTDs associated with this chapter, type
GET TEICORE2 DTD
GET TEIPL2 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 p2co.p2x
get p2co.doc
get p2co.tex
get p2co.ps
get p2co.ref
get teicore2.dtd
get teipl2.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
10 December 1992
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