Re: Cocoa texts and conversions?

On 2017-01-07 01:04 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Lou Burnard
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     I also think the claim on Wikipedia that the TEI maintains this
>     conversion needs a bit of attention.
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> OK, that's probably my fault. If someone who understands the situation
> better than I has ten minutes to hit edit on-wiki and explain, that
> would be great.

What I'm actually trying to do is understand the situation better, and 
I'm getting there. This is what I think we've learned:

  - Cocoa is not very amenable to a generic conversion process, since 
its syntax and usage is extremely variable;

  - Our current Cocoa conversion script (James will hopefully confirm or 
refute this) was written specifically to convert certain OTA texts, and 
could not be applied generically;

  - In any case, that script is broken (it produces invalid TEI);

  - There is a possible way forward in writing a conversion that creates 
milestone elements, as suggested by Lou, but that would still depend on 
knowledge of the actual syntax and special characters used in any 
specific set of texts;

  - There are still some Cocoa texts out there which have not yet been 
converted to TEI.

What I take from this is that it would probably make more sense to work 
with those people such as Elizabeth who have Cocoa texts that matter, 
and get those converted to TEI; meanwhile we could retire the conversion 
that doesn't work, and remove it from the Stylesheets repo. This is 
obviously a question for Council, though.

Cheers,
Martin

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> cheers
> stuart
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