Dear Council,
Marjorie Burghart and Conal Tuohy have released their TEI plugin for the open source editor in jEdit. They would like to invite us for testing the tool and sending them feedback.
Please see Marjorie’s email with all the details below.
Best,
Martina
Von: Marjorie Burghart
Gesendet: Montag, 22. Juni 2020 16:51
An: Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) ; James Cummings ; louburnard
Cc: Conal Tuohy
Betreff: A new tool for the TEI!
Dear Martina, Lou, Hugh and James,
Conal and I are very pleased to let you know that a TEI plugin for the open source editor jEdit has been officially released:
http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?TEI
The plugin is slowly propagating through the mirrors of jEdit's Plugin Central, if you don't see it there yet it should appear shortly.
Before making an official announcement, we would appreciate getting feedback from "power users" of the TEI :) We thought of you (and through Martina, of all Council members). If you have the time to give it a try, we would very much appreciate your feedback on potential bugs, ergonomy issues, etc. Conal thinks those first bugs could be fixed in a new release in a couple of weeks.
Conal is hosting the source code on his github, where you could report issues:
https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/jEdit-TEIPlugin/issues
and he has created a wiki page:
https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/jEdit-TEIPlugin/wiki
How to proceed:
- Install the latest version of jEdit http://www.jedit.org/
- Through the plugin manager (Plugins > Plugin Manager...), search the "TEI" plugin and install it with all its dependencies
NOTA BENE: if you already had jEdit with the XML plugin installed, you will also need to update the XML plugin to the latest version.
What it does: well, not everything :) The aim is NOT to replace Oxygen entirely, but to offer the community a viable free alternative, especially for teaching workshops and users with basic needs. We tried to cover the needs listed here (basic, and even some some deemed superfluous) :
https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php?title=Editor_for_teaching_TEI_-_features
Conal is currently working on two other improvements:
- schematron support
- a mechanism akin to Oxygen's validation scenarios.
The plugin has been developed by Conal, and the first steps in its development funded by a small grant I obtained from DARIAH - but Conal has done much more work "pro bono", and is kindly continuing development to enhance the features. If the community sees some use in this first step, I am planning to do my best to get further developments funded.
Best wishes,
Marjorie
