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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: How to get contributions (was: just HTML??)


From: Bryce Harrington
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: How to get contributions (was: just HTML??)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:28:48 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jean-Daniel Fekete wrote:

> Please,
> 
> Insteead of redefining a new DTD, I suggest you read the TEI Lite
> document.
>  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/test/teiu5.pdf
> or
>  http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Lite/teiu5.html

> Don't create a new XML DTD on your own, it will be reinventing the
> wheel, and probably not as round as it already is with TEI.

Agreed!  Wheel reinvention -> bad.  Making real progress -> good.

I know nothing of TEI, but know a good deal about DocBook, and it kind
of chagrins me to see so many suggestions of things that are _already_
in docbook - often with the same names!  

Yes, I know DocBook has a seemingly endless variety of tags.  So what?
90% of the time you only use about a dozen - the same dozen y'all are
listing out.  

I imagine it's a similar case with TEI.  
 
> I have already worked on encoding encyclopedia and other documents.  The
> way to advance positively would be to
> 1) try the TEI Lite version and encode some documents
> 2) see what's missing and if a specific TEI tag set resolve the problem
> 3) if we still miss some tags, create our extension
> 4) create a document that describe the specific practices for encoding
> our encyclopedia.

This seems like an extremely logical way to go to me, too.

> Sorry for pushing that hard but, as RMS stated, working on the tools
> will bring us nowhere near the creation of an encyclopedia.  Start
> writing contents using existing tools and try to improve them if
> required.

Agreed, totally.

Bryce




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