> From:    Edward Vanhoutte <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: research is display
 
> [...]
 
> Does anyone have an idea of how this can be achieved in a scholarly
> integral way, for a demo in which I put the corresponding paragraphs in
> a nested notes architecture resulted exactly in what I wanted, but the
> result is mere 'bricollage'.  If it proves to be impossible, I think
> text encoding is a lost cause for the potential dense use it could have
> in textual criticism and the publication of electronic scholarly
> editions.
 
Working with TEI in the last years gave me the impression that SGML/TEI
is not a good format for the end user. The limited capabilities and the
high price policy of the browser software forbids its use in the
academic world. On the other hand I do think that TEI is the best
storage format for electronic editions. In our publication of the text
of the young Goethe we therefore put a Teilite version of the text on
the cd-rom (without software) and a version of the text with software,
which probably will be outdated in 10 years.  I still hope that XML will
change this situation. Does anybody know whether the long announced work
on a conversion/adaption of the TEI dtds to XML dtds has begun, whether
a working group has started on this task or whether P. Bonhomme's trial
version is still the only thing around?  Fotis Jannidis
 
PS: Anybody interested in the Edition of the young Goethe and the
duplication of the text can find more information on the web:
http://www.jgoethe.uni-muenchen.de.  (just in German, sorry)
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Zeitschrift fuer Computerphilologie
Dr. Fotis Jannidis
http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de