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the Classical Text Editor
an attempt to provide for both printed and digital editions © Stefan Hagel
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clarification P. Robinson (2005) about tools for print editions:
“Others are based on extensions of the Microsoft Word family of software: e.g. Imprimatur and the Classical Text Editor (CTE)” The CTE is not based on MS Word not devoted exclusively to print editions But…
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the CTE digital impact factor
over 500 licenses in about 250 projects 4 are individual licenses for electronic editions Less than 1% digital editors? No institutional interest? the reverse effect Little feedback about the digital export Less programming effort dedicated to digital output
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the goal “ Our goal must be to ensure that any scholar able to make an edition in one medium should be able to make an edition in the other.” (P. Robinson) The CTE tries to implement the inclusive interpretation of this sentence.
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software requirements
The aspect of output quality The editor’s concentration must be devoted to scholarly questions Changes must be easily made at any stage The digitalisation aspect Editors must not be discouraged The print edition may be crucial, if only for bureaucratic reasons Creating a digital edition should be an additional option Requirements: Only one tool Print and digital output No code writing Acceptable results with minimal technical expertise, but Extensibility for advancing users
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the CTE data flow model CTE PDF <XML> <TEI> <HTML>
Rich Text Format Text / Unicode Text Manual Input Clipboard Macro pre-processing CTE PDF <HTML> <XML> <TEI> <XML> <HTML> … XSLT
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the strategy the sacrifice
Luring the traditional editor into publishing also an electronic version the sacrifice “Fundamental to the model of electronic scholarly edition as it has developed over the past decade is the inclusion of full transcripts of all witnesses to the text.” (P. Robinson) But: scholars who don’t set out for a digital edition from the start don’t care about a machine-readable critical apparatus. Advantage: the electronic edition will contain a human-readable apparatus.
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examples please find the examples on the CD Unchanged XML/TEI output from CTE files (without additional tagging) Formatted merely by CSS and JavaScript easily re-useable templates optimized for MS Internet Explorer <hi> formatting done programmatically Notes and margins can be turned off and on optimized for Opera „Dynamic“ CSS formatting: notes by mouse action / margins Synchronization of several versions Location search [view with standard browser] Opera 8 [view with standard browser] Opera 9 [view with standard browser] works around the Opera 9 CSS overflow:visible bug
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conclusion: possible environments
Technical expert scholar low-level tools creative solutions needs time for programming would perhaps use a program like the CTE for large texts, to modify the output by stylesheet languages or programmatically Average scholar all-in-one tool ready-made templates concentrates on texts the typical CTE user combination of scholarly output quality and technical output quality Working group scholars prepare their contributions with a high-level tool like the CTE technical expert collects and prepares for publication
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