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fizzbucket / tei_transformer

Transform TEI-encoded files into print-ready pdfs in an easily-customisable way
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Further development? #2

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

What is the status of tei_transformer? It is an interesting (and useful) project. Will there be any further development?

fizzbucket commented 6 years ago

Not really? I developed it for a particular project (my masters thesis, http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/5157/thesis.pdf) which is now long finished and I'm busy working on my doctorate. Although I'm quite happy to support it and answer any questions, it operates in a problem space with such diverse requirements that I assumed anyone wishing to use it would be customising it very heavily to meet their own needs anyway. At some point I'm planning to document it properly, but for this reason I have no intention of making it a turnkey solution at any point in the near future.

I think of it more as an exemplar of how I solved a particular problem than an ongoing project, if that makes sense, but I'd be very happy to give advice if you're planning something similar, or hand over responsibility for further development if you feel differently about its prospects.

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ghost commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had found the link to your thesis: very interesting in its own right! I see what you mean about the problem space. Both the source xml and target have so many variants. I’m interested myself in targeting XeTeX/Memoir, and Memoir has a number of macros for handling verse (stanzaic line indentation, etc.). I think I’ll do as you envisioned, and use the current tei_transformer codebase as a starting point for a custom transformation workflow. Thanks for sharing your work and making life easier for the rest of us. I’ll definitely watch the repo just in case you ever decide to broaden the scope. Good luck with your doctoral work.

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Not really? I developed it for a particular project (my masters thesis, http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/5157/thesis.pdf) which is now long finished and I'm busy working on my doctorate. Although I'm quite happy to support it and answer any questions, it operates in a problem space with such diverse requirements that I assumed anyone wishing to use it would be customising it very heavily to meet their own needs anyway. At some point I'm planning to document it properly, but for this reason I have no intention of making it a turnkey solution at any point in the near future.

I think of it more as an exemplar of how I solved a particular problem than an ongoing project, if that makes sense, but I'd be very happy to give advice if you're planning something similar, or hand over responsibility for further development if you feel differently about its prospects.

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adunning commented 6 years ago

I also just ran across this; it's a really nice piece of work, and the Python code is far easier to follow than the various attempts at XSLT out there. If you wouldn't mind sharing a snippet of the XML file that you used with this as an example, it would be really interesting.

fizzbucket commented 6 years ago

No problem! Just bog-standard tei, really.

selection.txt personlist.txt config.txt

(The first two files should be xml, and the third the .yaml configuration I used, but Github obviously only lets you upload .txt...)

adunning commented 6 years ago

Brilliant; thank you!

(@jon1924, let me know if you are working on something similar, as I am from Waterloo myself and currently in Toronto.)