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"Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@i...> writes:
> We are now ready to start developing a set of formal DTD's for Gutenberg and
> other e-texts.
I don't think we need yet another vocabulary for literary texts.
I would highly recommend either (a) starting with TEI or TEI-lite and
removing stuff, or (b) starting with XHTML and adding stuff. The Text
Encoding Initiativen, in particular, has spent a lot of time working
out the kinds of problems you'll be facing (including encoding drama
and verse of all descriptions), and several e-text archives, including
the Oxford Text Archive, already use TEI. Alternatively, XHTML is
well known, and you could add markup from a Gutenberg namespace (or
even from a TEI Namespace).
DocBook is not really suitable for working with literature, though it
is (obviously) fantastic for technical documentation.
> The aim is to develop DTD's be suitable for:
> Books
> Poetry
> Plays
> Saga's
> Diaries
> Compendiums
> Letters
> Mixed content
> *Atlases
> *Encyclopedias
> Dictionaries
> Historic Documents
> *Scientific Documents
> *Parallel Translations
> Other
>
> *These may be too ambitious for our initial DTD's,
> but we should at least have a look at them.
The TEI even has support for parallel translations (really!).
All the best,
David
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David Megginson david@m...
http://www.megginson.com/
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