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ballots distributed for election for chair of Technical Council
by Kevin Hawkins 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Colleagues, I have just set up an election for Council chair using OpaVote and sent ballots to the following addresses: stefanie.gehrke(a)biblissima-condorcet.fr stefan.majewski(a)onb.ac.at stadler(a)edirom.de s.bauman(a)neu.edu raffaeleviglianti(a)gmail.com philomousos(a)gmail.com pfschaffner(a)umich.edu mholmes(a)uvic.ca lou.burnard(a)retired.ox.ac.uk james.cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk fabio.ciotti(a)uniroma2.it There are two candidates, whose names should be presented on the ballots in random order: Hugh Cayless Lou Burnard You have until 13 January 2015 at 21:43 Central Standard Time (UTC - 6 hours) to cast your vote for one of the two candidates. --Kevin

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Doodle Poll for Council Meeting
by James Cummings 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hi all, I've put up a doodle poll to schedule our next meeting. I've suggested 2pm (GMT) or 3pm start (for an hour or more meeting) on any of the weekdays the week of Monday 19 January. Timezone support is on so it _should_ show you the time in your own timezone but feel free to double check this with www.timeandate.com. Please select any date/time you can make. If you might *usually* be able to make one of these on another month (or if it would be only mildly inconvenient) then select (yes) (ifneedbe) and/or leave a comment. http://doodle.com/mmqpzigxa5p6zqyz -James Chair Emeritus -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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minor problem in PDF table of contents
by Lou Burnard 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

An eagle-eyed reader of the PDF version of the Guidelines points out that the links from the table of contents page are not quite right. The problem seems to be that a link to section "n" in the PDF doesn't include information about whether it's going to section "n" in the front, body, or back, and always goes to the first one that's available. The links in the HTML version are fine, so this must be something going wrong in the LaTeX, or more likely in the generated PDF. On 07/01/15 22:23, Keith Handley wrote: > > The PDF has the table of contents as bookmarks. If you click on "1 The > TEI Infrastructure", you go to the spot labeled "1 Releases of the TEI > Guidelines". If you click on "2 The TEI Header" you get "2 Dedication". > > You get similar stuff for the top-level bookmarks for chapters 3 > through 6, as well (which have corresponding numbered chapters in the > front matter). > > The same thing happens with sub-chapters, when there is a sub-chapter > with the same number in the front matter. So "4.1 Divisions of the > Body" points to 4.1 in the front matter. 4.2 and 4.3 behave similarly, > but 4.4 works correctly--I assume because there is no chapter 4.4 in > the front matter. >

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Council Chair Elections and Teleconferences
by James Cummings 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hi Council! Happy New Year! We have two things to sort out before the Council can get down to business this year: 1) Elections: Lou and Hugh put themselves forward for election to the glorious position of Council chair. I've asked someone if they will act as the returning officer and am just awaiting their response. All current council members get a vote and so you may wish to refresh your minds as to Lou and Hugh's candidate statements for getting elected to the Council: http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2014/mm70.xml#burnard http://www.tei-c.org/Membership/Meetings/2014/mm70.xml#cayless 2) Teleconferences: I'm about to set up a doodle poll for a set of date/time combinations that we can then use as a template to schedule meetings for the rest of the year. I'll send the link to that in a separate email later this evening. Apologies for the delay with both of these. -James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings(a)it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT Services, University of Oxford

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oops -- please check xlsxtotei
by Syd Bauman 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I *thought* I was pushing a stylesheet bug fix to GitHub for review by Sebastian et al. But it seems (probably because, quite reasonably, I have the necessary privileges) that my change was committed w/o review. Could Sebastian, James, Martin, Hugh, and anyone else who stands a chance of understanding the code check that it makes sense? See https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets/commit/b3cd09986637ea3339f22dfe503a0d63… You'll find there are hundreds of changes, but they're all white-space changes except lines 277-280 (search for "Syd"). Could anyone who has an Excel spreadsheet that has intra-cell changes in style (like typeface or italics) test this? Would make me feel a lot better about this change if we had more than 1 case in which the new code was an improvement. :-) Thanks. P.S. How do I send mail to the GitHub list for Stylesheets?

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simple/minimal
by Lou Burnard 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

I just noticed that the current oxygen framework offers a menu of available TEI document types which includes items called "Simple", "Simple with Internationalisation", etc. (see attached graphic, if this list permits it) These are of course nothing to do with the "TEI Simple" schema currently used for EEBO TCP texts. The corresponding schema files are not so named, obviously but it seems a source of needless confusion to retain the name "simple" here rather than say "minimal". Where are these names defined, and is it not in the council's remit to correct them?

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How about a translate-a-thon at the Members Meeting?
by Martin Holmes 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hi all, I have a vague memory of this idea being raised at some point, but I can't find any evidence of it, so maybe it was all in my head. After three attempts to get translation projects going have failed almost at the starting gate, it seems to me that we need an alternative strategy. Since the Members Meeting will be in France next year, how about organizing a one-day "translate-a-thon" to update the French translation? We could provide food, organization and guidance, and try to get a large enough group of interested French speakers to storm through as much of the French translation job as can be done in a day. We might get it all done. Even if we don't, I bet we could get far enough with it that the job would get finished over the following weeks. What do you think? Cheers, Martin

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Stylesheets 7.28.0
by Sebastian Rahtz 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

In order to complete my term on Council in typically chaotic way, I have taken the opportunity to make a final release of the TEI Stylesheets for the year. Inter alia, this fixes a serious bug in PDF generation of the Guidelines which Lou spotted (looked at the content model for an element in the reference material in the last release); but mostly it represents a lot of fooling around with TCP conversion and rendering, of which more on Jan 1st. I have _not_ updated the oXygen TEI P5+XSL package, as I don’t want to interfere with work to automate that. So a happy holiday to you all, assuming you all do have some of winter solstice break around now, and farewell from me to the TEI Council -- Sebastian Rahtz Director (Research) of Academic IT University of Oxford IT Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.

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Enrich: (was Re: they come to bite us: biblScope/@type fallout
by Lou Burnard 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

I'm not sure I agree with that. There is quite a lot of data out there in the real world using Enrich and we wont win any friends by breaking it all for no good reason. I think it would be better to add @type as an explicit locally-defined attribute in the enrich ODD. There is also, I suspect, software which we really don't want to force people to modify., especially since we are no longer in touch with its developers. On 19/12/14 12:55, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >> On 19 Dec 2014, at 12:50, Martin Holmes <mholmes(a)uvic.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Following the removal of biblScope/@type, P5-Test and P5-Documentation >> built OK, but the main build failed because of the ENRICH schema, which >> I know nothing about. I guess we have two options: customize the ENRICH >> schema to add back @type on <biblScope>, or modify ENRICH so that it >> uses @unit instead. >> >> Since ENRICH seems to be an interchange format, the former seems the >> better option, so I'll proceed on that basis; if you know differently, >> please shout. It looks like Lou was heavily involved in ENRICH: >> >> <http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ENRICH/Deliverables/referenceManual_en.html> >> >> If the project is still very active, and has some method of discussing >> and propagating change, we could suggest that they incorporate this >> change into their schema through whatever mechanisms they usually use. > Lou, James and I all worked on ENRICH. No, it doesn’t have an active group > any more. > > I’d be inclined to the "modify ENRICH so that it uses @unit instead” method, > as I don’t want ENRICH to be something other than a subset of TEI. > but I’d like to hear what James and Lou think before you do anything. > -- > Sebastian Rahtz > Director (Research) of Academic IT > University of Oxford IT Services > 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 > > Não sou nada. > Nunca serei nada. > Não posso querer ser nada. > À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo. >

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building P5 pdf locally
by Lou Burnard 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

On 18/12/14 14:39, Hugh Cayless wrote: > Sorting out the details of the build system would be nice. I can't myself > do a full buildâ€”it fails somewhere around PDF generation, possibly because > I don't have all the right fonts. But it's not at all clear to me what > those are or how to get them. I've never dug into it because I can generate > the HTML GLs just fine. Is there documentation about the details anywhere? If you run "make dependencies" it should list the packages that need to be installed under debian. These include msttcorefonts, and a bunch of other more exotic (but freely available) font packages, some of which have changed their names since the Makefile was last updated There is also a "make fonttest", but sfaics all this does is check to see whether you have Minion or Myriad fonts installed, and warn you that it will fall back to using yucky Computer modern roman if you don't. By default the Makefile doesn't try to build PDF, or Epub, or Mobi formats for the Guidelines, unless I am missing something. Is this something anyone would want to do when just testing their local mods? It's quite a big deal.

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