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Freeze is lifted!
by Patricia O'Connor 15 Aug '25

15 Aug '25

Dear all, Helena, Elli, and I have successfully released the Guidelines 4.10.0 and the Stylesheets 7.59.0. The freeze is lifted, please feel free to push to dev again. Best, Trisha Dr Patricia O Connor (she/her) PhD in Digital Humanities and Old English TEI Technical Council Member, TEI-C <https://tei-c.org/activities/council/> 2023-2025 Research Assistant, RESCAPE <https://www.chartes.psl.eu/en/patricia-o-connor> 2023-2024 Research Assistant, Transatlantic Intellectual Networks <https://research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/projects/transatlanticintellectualnetworks/> 2022 Research Assistant, CLASP <https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/> 2021-2022 TEI Communications Officer, TEI-C <https://tei-c.org/> 2021-2023 Research Assistant, School of English, UCC 2020 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar 2016-2018 Web: www.research.ie Twitter <https://twitter.com/trishaoconnor88> - LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-o-connor-7653ba55/> - Website <http://trishaoconnor.com/>

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Freeze announcement
by H B S 13 Aug '25

13 Aug '25

Dear all, We are officially in freeze: Please do not commit any changes to the dev branches until the release is finished. Best, H.

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Upcoming TEI Release: Refridge to Freeze
by Elisa Beshero-Bondar 11 Aug '25

11 Aug '25

Dear TEI Technical Council, Welcome to the week of a TEI Release! We have a release scheduled this week on August 15, with great thanks to our release technicians, Helena, Elli, Trish, with Joey as our Pacific Rim monitor. Note that there's a TEI Council meeting conveniently scheduled tomorrow in the middle of our release week, and I suspect it may be helpful for us. :-) The meeting will be from 10:30–12:00 PDT | 13:30–15:00 EDT | 18:30–20:00 UTC | 19:30–21:00 CET * at our usual Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/98850059066?pwd=UzhBL2NFc1lweWYzS2xZd2dqYVZpdz09 Meeting ID: 988 5005 9066 password: tei We will definitely need to reschedule our Council meeting times, so I'll circulate a calendar poll very shortly. As for the release(!): we have been in a state of refrigeration for the preceding week, and very shortly we transition to freeze. Technically we should be in a freeze today, but a few of us may be working (heatedly) on some tickets that we want to include in this release. For all of us, it will help us greatly if you can check the tickets assigned to you on GitHub for TEI and Stylesheets and punt some of them to the next release milestone (TEI 4.11 or Stylesheets 7.60) or finish up work expeditiously on anything nearly ready for the 4.10 / 7.59 release milestones this week. Thanks, and see you on Slack! Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD TEI Technical Council Chair Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology | Professor of Digital Humanities | Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Development site: https://newtfire.org

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Next Stylesheets meeting: July 29th
by H B S 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

Dear all, The next Stylesheets meeting will take place on Tuesday July 29th at 4 pm UTC, 9 am PDT, 12 pm EDT, and 6 pm CEST. Please find the agenda here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNfj0b7utonqFU7BeiE_KuhowGthH_C6wnQE1fk… Best, Helena

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Block Discount for Council: TEI 2025 Hotel Reservation
by Elisa Beshero-Bondar 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Hi, Council! Jan Rybicki has kindly arranged a block of rooms in an attempt to find Council a good rate for lodging during the TEI 2025 Council F2F and conference. Here are the details from Jan: Liebeskind Hotel https://www.liebeskindhotel.pl/en - Code: *UJSEPT2025* - Valid until 13.08 - Rates: - single occupancy 350 PLN / night with breakfast - double occupancy 450 PLN / night with breakfast Caveat: I just tried to use the discount code he provided and it didn't work for me (so I've written to let him know / ask for help). If it works for you, please let us know! I tried to post this message last night but it bounced due to the size of the message being over 40K (and I believe that's because I tried to forward details directly from an email chain between Jan and the hotel). So it's possible you'll see my previous messages later if Hugh approves them. (Hugh, you probably don't have to do that now.) :-) Cheers, Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD TEI Technical Council Chair Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology | Professor of Digital Humanities | Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Development site: https://newtfire.org

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Next Stylesheets meeting: June 24
by H B S 21 Jun '25

21 Jun '25

Dear all, The next Stylesheets meeting will take place on Tuesday June 22nd at 4 pm UTC, 9 am PDT, 12 pm EDT, and 6 pm CEST. Please find the agenda here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNfj0b7utonqFU7BeiE_KuhowGthH_C6wnQE1fk… Best, Helena

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Fwd: please drop simplePrint or correct its embarrassing description.
by Elisa Beshero-Bondar 15 May '25

15 May '25

Dear Council, Martin Mueller sends this request about simplePrint. I wonder which of these options is more sensible. I think I’m persuaded that we should drop it now and replace it with the TEI Publisher ODD, but perhaps we can discuss at the VF2F. Elisa Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD (she/they) Chair, TEI Technical Council Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology | Professor of Digital Humanities | Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Typeset by hand on my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Martin Mueller <martinmueller(a)northwestern.edu> > Date: May 15, 2025 at 2:27:11 PM EDT > To: Elisa Beshero-Bondar <ebbondar(a)gmail.com> > Subject: please drop simplePrint or correct its embarrassing description. > > > Dear Elisa, > > I have on several occasions complained (without success) about the embarrassing description of TEI simplePrint. My name appears at the top of the current introduction. > > The description is oddly condescending and in some instances plain wrong. In retrospect, I think it was a mistake to associate the Processing Model with a particular schema. Since the Processing Model is alive and well in EI Publisher, the best thing would be to drop this particular customization and replace it with TEI Publisher Base > > If that can’t be done—and I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t be done—it should at least be possible to correct gross inaccuracies. > > In the first of the four summary points, the distinction between print and manuscript is misleading. There are manuscript pages that could be easily encoded with simplePrint, and there are aspects of typography or layout on a printed page that you could not do with this tag set. The relevant criteria are the complexity of the page design and the degree to which you would want to capture its “materiality”. > > In the second point, “Early Modern” is defined as “up to the end of the nineteenth century”. The conventional limits of the term are roughly from the 1400’s to 1800. I am not aware of any features that can be encoded in simplePrint but are rarely found in modern materials. > > In the third point the reference to “Western European” is plain wrong. As long as the text can be represented in combinations of Unicode, you could use simplePrint as long as the document structure is supported. Homer, the Hebrew Bible, and Anna Karenina are not exactly “Western European” texts. > > The condescending tone of the document is most pronounced in the final point, which seems to assume that “specialist research” is measured by the degree of attention to the way in which the text was printed. There are highly specialized forms of inquiry that do not give a hoot about the ways in which pages are laid out and pages are printed as long as the words appear in the right order and in a spelling that makes their meaning apparent. > > To conclude with my initial point, the best solution would be to quietly drop simplePrint and replace it with TEI Publisher’s Base ODD. For its first couple of years TEI Publisher followed simplePrint and added its own Base version, which was marginally different. I suggested to Magdalena that TEI Publisher should should drop simplePrint and start with Base. What ever was useful about simplePrint survives in TEI Publisher Base without any of the very dubious rhetoric of simplePrint. > > Best > > MM > > Martin Mueller > Professor emeritus of English and Classics > Northwestern University >

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Next Stylesheets meeing: April 22
by Helena Bermúdez Sabel 20 Apr '25

20 Apr '25

Dear all, The next Stylesheets meeting will take place on Tuesday April 22nd at 4 pm UTC, 9 am PDT, 12 pm EDT, and 6 pm CET. Please find the agenda here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NNfj0b7utonqFU7BeiE_KuhowGthH_C6wnQE1fk… Best, Helena

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Great thing forgot
by Lou Burnard 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Surely the "in memoriam" page at the front of the guidelines ought to include Michael's name? . Apologies for not having thought to mention this before current release.

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DHSI Courses in Montreal
by Elisa Beshero-Bondar 25 Mar '25

25 Mar '25

Dear TEI list, Those interested in courses related to digital humanities as well as XML and TEI will find some good anticipated options on the slate at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which has moved to Montreal, Quebec this year! Please take a look at this year's courses <https://dhsi.org/course-offerings/>(all of which we hope will be approved with sufficient enrollment), and consider whether a DHSI course might be helpful to you or those you work with. I'll note some very good options for our community in Week 1, May 26-30 (be sure to look from the start to the end of the list)! I hope to see you in Montreal in May! If you're curious about my course (that I co-teach with David Birnbaum), please peruse our course materials <https://ebeshero.github.io/UpTransformation/> and be in touch with questions about your project--we very much enjoy assisting with your projects in real time! Cheers, Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD TEI Technical Council Chair Program Chair of Digital Media, Arts, and Technology | Professor of Digital Humanities | Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Development site: https://newtfire.org

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