Didn't hit reply all. See below On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 12:12 PM Raffaele Viglianti < raffaeleviglianti@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Martina,

Overall, it seems pretty fast to me, and I like how it's simple to create a TEI file from a template and that elements and attributes are suggested as you type. Here are a few comments from testing on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

These things should be there to make it truly useful in a teaching context: - validation doesn't seem to trigger automatically, one needs to click "Parse Buffer" to initiate it. This isn't bad per se, but it took me too long to figure it out. I would recommend making the button more visible (icon?) and call it something more descriptive (e.g. "Parse and Validate") - show values from the RNG when scrolling through possible elements and attributes. This is the easiest way to know whether an element is appropriate or not; I rely on it as a training device - attribute values from closed or semi lists should be shown and documented

Desiderata (besides the ones already mentioned by them): - I'm not a jEdit user, but when the plugin is activated, all its components appear in tiny floating windows that need to be docked. It's a one-off operation, but frustrating, and I suspect younger students will not be familiar with this kind of UI. It's possible that nothing can be done about this, unless jEdit's API allows for a plugin to start "docked". - it would be great to have a wrap element button or shortcut (Oygen's Ctrl+e)

Best, Raff

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:12 AM Scholger, Martina ( martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) wrote:

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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) < martina.scholger@uni-graz.at>; James Cummings < James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk>; 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

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