Spent some time getting the new RAs booked onto machines and working. EM is busy transcribing the second volume of the text that TG is working on; we haven't started on the XML with her text yet. AC is working on the Varin text; there we have a previous XML file started by CC, but not complete (it's missing authorial annotations, which are actually more extensive than the poetry), but the latest transcription doc file seems to be complete, so AC is moving blocks of transcription from the doc file into the XML file, and marking them up.

Things not yet done:

• Both of them are still working on local copies of files, until their accounts are added to the Mariage group. Have to remember to back up their stuff, and when the permissions are done, get their oXygen project files pointing at the files on the server.
• EM still needs to be started off with XML; that should be done next Wednesday, when she overlaps with TG, so that they can both learn together.
• AC and I need to meet with CC to figure out detailed plans for the Varin markup. For instance: all the poetry appears to be in italics except for some instances of plain, so we need an efficient approach to the markup to handle this, without using <hi rend="italic"> in every line. One approach is to use <lg rend="italic"> and then <hi rend="plain"> where non-italic bits appear.