TEI Technical Council meeting minutes

A colleague pointed out that I had forgotten to announce the TEI 
Technical Council meeting minutes from our face to face meeting 
in Ann Arbor.  These are available at:

http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Meetings/tcm50.xml

We covered a large number of Bugs and Feature Requests submitted 
on sourceforge as well as discussing a number of larger topics. 
We have since been working through these and resolving as a many 
as possible in preparation for our next release of the TEI 
Guidelines.

-James

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Computing Services, University of Oxford

Re: lucene/Solr import filters

Comes this week. Was on vacation in May.
Best,
Marco

On 05/22/2012 11:59 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Peter MacDonald<pmacdona <at> hamilton.edu>  wrote:
>> Stuart:
>>
>> We have a new repository here at our small college that uses
>> Islandora/Fedora as its delivery system and one of the collections consists
>> of 456 TEI files. We use Solr to index our TEI files, but it has been a
>> challenge to configure Solr to meet our delivery needs. You can see it at
>> work here:
>>
>> http://cwl.dhinitiative.org/
>>
>> So far we only index roleName, forename, surname, orgName, geogName,
>> geogFeat, and sic. We are also experimenting with full persName and
>> placeName elements, but those are not quite ready for primetime because our
>> TEI files are not yet 100% consistent in their encoding of these elements.
>> We eventually want to use the placeName elements in a mapping interface.
>>
>> Anyway, I wonder if you would be willing to share the file you use for
>> configuring Solr for TEI. I've never seen it done by anyone but us and there
>> might be a more efficient way of doing it. I would be happy to send you mine
>> if you were interested.
> I'm not sure that our particular config will help you very much, but
> I'm happy to share what I learnt.
>
> * We use the same XSLT tool chain for solr as I use for HTML, so we

TEI, XSL-FO, and Glyphs

Hi everybody,
I was wondering, whether anybody has a best practice way of handling 
Glyphs (especially asian ones) when transformin TEI files to PDF using 
oXygen. Of course if I select a font containing the glyphs but that 
would make me check on every glyph beforehand. Is there a way of 
fallback handling glyphs not available in the font my xml-fo file specifies?

Best wishes,
Benjamin

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TEI, XSL-FO, and Glyphs

Re: TEI, XSL-FO, and Glyphs

Hi Benjamin

Years ago I remember generating font-metrics files and building a 
userconfig.xml file for FOP, in order to be able to print special 
glyphs. I don't remember all the details, but this, for instance, might 
be helpful: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fontembed.html

FOP also has a font-substitution feature which may be helpful: you could 
group all your fonts into one substitution group and rely on this 
feature to choose the best font: 
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/fonts.html#substitution

In the worst case you may have to explicitly map characters to the 
appropriate fonts:

You could specify in your XSL-FO document which font to use for a 
particular character. You could do this with an XSLT that post-processes 
the XSL-FO, matching particular characters, and wrapping them in 
<fo:inline elements> in order to specify a font with a matching glyph. 
See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters

To identify which fonts contains glyphs with a particular character, you 
could use the FOP font metrics tools, or you could try this (Microsoft 
Windows) utility program: http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Find_Glyph

I hope that's helpful!

Conal

On 06/06/12 03:36, Benjamin Wolff Bohl wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I was wondering, whether anybody has a best practice way of handling 
> Glyphs (especially asian ones) when transformin TEI files to PDF using 
> oXygen. Of course if I select a font containing the glyphs but that 
> would make me check on every glyph beforehand. Is there a way of 
> fallback handling glyphs not available in the font my xml-fo file 
> specifies?
>
> Best wishes,
> Benjamin
>

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Authorities Heading

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To: info <at> tei-c.org, news <at> tei-c.org
Subject: Digital Humanities Congress 2012

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Re: TEI, XSL-FO, and Glyphs

Hi Marcus,
hi Conal,

thank you for your advice.
As I read from what you've said I will have to "know", e.g. modify my data.
What I've done so far is generate font-etrics files for all teh fonts I 
want to embed and directly reference them in my fop-config.xml. Moreover 
I decided on Using "Aria Unicode MS" font for anything "foreign". In 
order grasp the glyphs and to automatically tag them with <foreign> I 
used regular expressions searching for certain unicode codepoint ranges 
to search all my TEI files.

Thanks,
Benjamin

Benjamin Wolff Bohl

***********************************************************
Edirom - Projekt "Digitale Musikedition"
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
Gartenstraße 20
D – 32756 Detmold

Tel. +49 (0) 5231 / 975-669
Fax: +49 (0) 5231 / 975-668

http://www.edirom.de
***********************************************************


Am 06.06.2012 07:33, schrieb Conal Tuohy:
> Hi Benjamin
>
> Years ago I remember generating font-metrics files and building a 
> userconfig.xml file for FOP, in order to be able to print special 
> glyphs. I don't remember all the details, but this, for instance, 
> might be helpful: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fontembed.html
>
> FOP also has a font-substitution feature which may be helpful: you 
> could group all your fonts into one substitution group and rely on 
> this feature to choose the best font: 
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/fonts.html#substitution
>
> In the worst case you may have to explicitly map characters to the 
> appropriate fonts:
>
> You could specify in your XSL-FO document which font to use for a 
> particular character. You could do this with an XSLT that 
> post-processes the XSL-FO, matching particular characters, and 
> wrapping them in <fo:inline elements> in order to specify a font with 
> a matching glyph. See 
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters
>
> To identify which fonts contains glyphs with a particular character, 
> you could use the FOP font metrics tools, or you could try this 
> (Microsoft Windows) utility program: 
> http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Find_Glyph
>
> I hope that's helpful!
>
> Conal
>
>
>
> On 06/06/12 03:36, Benjamin Wolff Bohl wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> I was wondering, whether anybody has a best practice way of handling 
>> Glyphs (especially asian ones) when transformin TEI files to PDF 
>> using oXygen. Of course if I select a font containing the glyphs but 
>> that would make me check on every glyph beforehand. Is there a way of 
>> fallback handling glyphs not available in the font my xml-fo file 
>> specifies?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Benjamin
>>
>
>

Re: Authorities Heading

Enrico,

The Best Practices for TEI in Libraries, a community customization now 
included in the list at http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/Customization/ , 
gives examples of personal and corporate authority headings in the TEI 
header:

http://www.tei-c.org/SIG/Libraries/teiinlibraries/main-driver.html#index.xml-body.1_div.4_div.1_div.6

As you can see, these Best Practices simply indicate to use the 
authority form but don't give a way to note that a particular value of 
<author>, <editor>, etc. is from an authority file.

--Kevin

On 2:59 PM, Enrico Cima wrote:
> Dear Tei-List,
>
> I would like to know which is the best way to encode the authority
> heading of a personal or corporate name.
> Something like an index with the authorized form, refs and see also...
>
> Thank you,
> Enrico