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Meeting to review the presentation -- my task now is to collapse six slides which begin with the picture of the filecard box into a single stepped diagram illustrating the old encoding process and the horrible binary result.

Started a tutorial based on SNOW1 (for the moment), and in the process of writing the first bit of it, came up against many annoyances in the rendering of egXML blocks; fixed those rendering issues (in three places, site, redesign, and codesharing. Grrr).

Emailed DR with latest changes/additions required for site.
Site in progress.

In Progress: updating site with new course listings 2013-14.

In progress: updating site with new course listings for 2013-14.

Added rendering handling for sp, speaker, and p within sp. The stage tag isn't handled yet. Rolled out changes both to site and to redesign codebases.

The ISE was getting the error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
when running xwiki.
It turns out that the existence of quotes in JAVA_OPTS directives causes the option to be ignored. So, for future reference, use -Djava.awt.headless=true instead of -Djava.awt.headless="true" when launching tomcat on a headless server.

...on RL's instructions.

Since SNOW1 was a bit of a mess at the beginning, because of the encoders following obsolete examples, I've manually encoded the title page as an example.

Also found a problem with METR1 which was not really a bug, nor an encoding invalidity: a body element which goes straight to content (e.g. a head) with no intervening div is not invalid, but it triggered rendering problems because it was completely unexpected. As it happens, the encoding should not have been that way -- other divs appear later in the body -- but it wasn't technically wrong, so it would be good to figure out a way to prevent this through the schema or more likely through Schematron. We could change the content model of body so that it can only have divs, of course.

Section 2 is now down to 6 slides, with more detail and more extensive notes.