Re: [Bug-gne]Distributed design

[Jean-Daniel Fekete]

Funny attitude, really!
You are not working on an encyclopedia project (I still can't really figure
out what GNE is).
You don't want to use softwares such as Perl that are mature, if not always
readable.
You don't want to use TEI technology because it is meant to code things from
paper, so you will use your own.

Are you going to rewrite you WEB browser and OS as well because they were
not meant to be used for GNE?
Aren't you falling into the "redesign the world" trap?

Every tool GNE will create, GNE will have to maintain it and document it.
Why not using the free tools and format that exist around.  If Perl is
complicated, take time to learn it. If TEI is complicated, take (hopefully
less) time to learn it.

I can help for TEI, I am currently working on a set of small tools to
translate back and force from RTF/TeX/HTML to simple TEI and back (I have
this last part already working).

  Jean-Daniel Fekete
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----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Mahan <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: [Bug-gne]Distributed design


> First, my wife is not feeling well lately so I'm doubling as a full-time
> nurse :(
>
> Anyway.
>
> I looked at php4 and it looks like something I can sink my teeth into and
be
> fairly productive (the key word) quickly.
>
> Looking at TEI, I am not extremely convinced that it would be good for us,
> since no one else is really doing what we do, and because it is really a
way
> to render paper (book) formats in xml, which is far from what we are
really
> doing.
>
> I'll finish the contributor (author/editor/etc) thing this week, and then
> will get into the articles themselves in earnest.
>
> Also... if an article is fairly long, and has multiple sections, do I want

> to treat the sections as separable and linkable?  What I am looking for
is:
>
> section 1
> section 2
> section 3
> etc
>
> each being callable as a separate sub document. Then, can a document
include
> sections writeen by other people? This would make the thing quite
modular...
> etc... Just a thought, though, for version 2.
>
>
> On the distributed design:
>
> I think that a few fast computers might be less efficient than a lot of
> older computers, as long as the maintenance and administration of those
> machines is also distributed (meaning I don't have to do it).
>
>
>
>
> Christopher Mahan
> address@hidden
> http://www.christophermahan.com/
>
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