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120 changes; these are the regexps:

(?<!abbr>)([Dd])ep(<hi rend="[^"]+super+[^"]+">t\.?</hi>\.?) 

<choice><abbr>$1$2</abbr><expan>$1epartment</expan></choice> 

RS asked that we supply for the committee an overview of projects we have been involved in for the various departments over the years. Did a trawl back through blogs, work diaries, and previous reports to the Dean, and I think I have a good list, which I've uploaded into the Sharepoint site. It certainly won't be complete -- I only have my own very detailed work diaries going back to 2002, and no access to SA's -- but it does give a sense of the historical work patterns.

Last prep and tweaks.

Small fix to the english grad apps program that allows reviewers to review PhD and MA applications online. The names of applicants are passed to a Javascript function that is triggered upon button click, like this (names used are not real):

<button onclick="showform('LASTNAME-Firstname-PhD')">Assess...</button>

However, if the name had an apostrophe, it was breaking the Javascript:

<button onclick="showform('LAST'NAME-Firstname-PhD')">Assess...</button>

So, I simply escaped the names with addslashes().

Finished cleaning up the image, created the two smaller images, and built the Image Markup file, although I haven't entered any text yet. Added everything to SVN, but I haven't uploaded it to the site yet.

Note to self: when cleaning up images, select by colour in the Gimp is your friend.

Up to now, we've been using a schema which was generated using oddbyexample.xsl from our document collection last year, and then slightly modified. I've now substantially modified the ODD file to make the following changes:

• Allow <argument> to appear in various locations in which it's not normally allowed, because we have marginal-style arguments throughout our new prose texts, and many of the appear in locations where there's no sentence or division break.
• Fix some previous errors in attribute values that were available because of errors in the original documents.
• Added back the <rs> element, which we use in TOCs.
• Added lots of new attribute values for e.g. @type, which are required for the new documents.

In the process, I fixed some issues in a couple of the actual documents, and I now have the two new documents linking to the updated schema instead of the tei_all they were temporarily using.

I've migrated the new version of the website into a Subversion repository. Since there are multiple people editing the site, this'll eliminate the risk of overwriting changes, having things fall through the cracks, etc. The videos are not under version control but all other files within /dev are.

The repository is at: /svn/francotoile