TEI P3 on CD-ROM

                 TEI P3 ON CD IS NOW AVAILABLE
 
TEI P3 -- the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines -- were published in book
form in May of last year. Readers of this list will not be surprised to hear
that the text was prepared as an SGML document, from which those two big green
volumes were generated by automatic processing (and a fair bit of cussing). 
They may also be aware that the text of the Guidelines has been available
electronically for free by anonymous file transfer (in plain  ASCII or in SGML)
for even longer; many will also have found the excellent browsable version
mounted at UVA's PAT server and available over the Web from
http://etext.virginia.edu/TEI.html. Being in SGML, "The Guidelines" can be
imported and processed by a whole range of software systems -- a fact which
gives us, as editors, particular pleasure.
 
This is to announce the publication of another browsable electronic
version -- one that you can take home and read on a free-standing MAC or
PC, with all the searching and indexing capabilities we have come to
expect from good quality electronic texts. This one is published by
those nice people at Electronic Book Technologies, and is available now
from the TEI at the SPECIAL PRICE of USD 75 or GBP 50 -- just the same
as the printed book.
 
The DynaTEXT edition, of course, can do a lot of things that the print
version cannot (though it doesn't make such a good door stop).  It is
available on a standard CD and can be installed on any machine capable
of running Microsoft Windows 3.1, or Apple Macintosh System 7.0 or
later.  

If you have a CD-ROM drive on your machine, you can either install just
the DynaTEXT browser on your hard disk (requires 3.25 Mb) and read the
text directly from the CD-ROM, or you can install the whole thing on
your hard disk (11.5 Mb).  If you don't have a CD-ROM drive of your own,
you'll need to use a machine which does have one, to make a set of
floppy disks from which you can install the text on your own machine.
So you do need access to a computer with a CD player for at least the
few minutes it takes to create these floppies.  And you'll need 11.5 Mb
of disk space.  A colour display screen is a really good idea. Most (but
not all) of the functions of the DynaText browser come built in, but you
can't use it to create new electronic books.
 
You can however use it to find answers for all those niggling little
questions that any serious user of the TEI Guidelines is always asking
("What's the content model for <front>?"--  "Where is fish mentioned in
P3?" -- "What are the attributes of the Metrical class?" -- "What on
earth is the oVar tag for?") in seconds!
 
Order your copy now! (Orders placed in Europe may now be charged to VISA
or MasterCard.)
 
-Lou Burnard
 C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
 
 
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    GUIDELINES FOR ELECTRONIC TEXT ENCODING AND INTERCHANGE (TEI P3)
 
                           DYNATEXT EDITION
 
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Please supply _____ copies of TEI P3 on CD at:
 
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This form should be returned to one of the following:
 
Europe:  TEI Orders, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury
         Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK
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         payable to Oxford University Computing Services, unless paying
         by credit card, in which case please fill out the following:
 
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Rest of world:  C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at
         Chicago, Academic Computing Center (M/C 135),
         1940 W. Taylor Rm. 124, Chicago IL  60612-7352, U.S.A.
         (enclose check or money order in U.S. dollars, payable to
         the Association for Computers and the Humanities)
 
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