Mariage

Team meeting to finish up the semester.

Encoding team will work on the three docs under way (le_blanc, le_bon, and ville_t) while I'll work on the port to eXist; following that, we'll start on the modern spelling plan.

Looks like CB and GB-S were both working on references.xml this morning at the same time. Had to manually merge some changes because CB couldn't commit her files.

Fixed some bugs introduced by the transformation from rend to style (intrusive default attribute values), and implemented a Schematron schema with three rules (so far) to help catch typos. Fixed many of the typos it caught.

I've converted all the documents and updated all the XSLT, and the site appears to be working fine both on Peach and on Pear, but the app won't start on my local machine, which is worrying. I need to port this to a new eXist asap.

Worked on the layout CSS for the Le Blanc and Ville Thierry documents. The difficulty of setting the page width adequately so that text isn't grouped too far to the left, without triggering the occasional line-wrap, is a continual problem, but we're getting to a good approximation for these two documents. I still need to move from @rend to @style -- that will be done when I get back from ICLDC3.

Task arising out of meeting with CC 2012-12-03:

1. In references, any <ref> element in listBibl should be converted to a <ptr> element.
2. Encoding instructions/documentation should be updated to reflect this.
3. When rendering, the target attribute of the ptr should be used to create a link out of the first component in the reference (title of an article, etc.).

In preparation for CB joining the project this afternoon, I've written a beginner's-intro-to-Mariage document, which we'll probably expand as time goes on. I've also brought the SVN instructions into the repository, and added SVN Properties to the head of all the XML files, to give us a bit more instant trackability.

Met with CC to go over the grant application, and then to assess the current state of the site and the plan for this semester's work. Made a variety of fixes to site information, menus etc., simplified the text classification system, and made a lot of fixes to metadata and links in several of the more recent long texts.

Over 300 errors in CSS now corrected.