Back on the project for a few weeks, and getting up to speed on developments over the past year. I'm adding this comment of ECH's to the blog for us to think about in the future:
"One thing I wonder about is a glottal stop infix in the middle of a root. Is there any way to make clear that the parts of the root belong together? For example, if a form is ca+?+qw, the root is caqw, but with the tab format you can’t see that."
Another pass through the detail and the summary.
Proofing/editing/expanding bits of the application in an early draft. Deadline looming!
Met with ECH to work on SSHRC application.
Worked through ECH's completed application and added some comments and suggestions. Looks good to me.
Working on text for inclusion in grant proposal. Forwarded to ECH.
ECH called to discuss two possible grant proposals; we went over the groundwork and arranged a ftf meeting to actually finalize the applications next week. Also she reported a couple of glitches on display of the site on some Windows computers; these were likely old, but details are not available of the setup. We should definitely build in detailed testing of how widely-supported the CSS3 font embedding really is.
ECH will be travelling with a laptop and unreliable internet access, so we installed a local copy of Tomcat and the Moses db on the laptop. Notes for doing this in future: to run e.g. utf8_startup.sh or shutdown.sh, duplicate the file and give it a .command extension, and then edit it to supply the full path to anything that needs to be located; relative paths seem to cause problems.
ECH sent a new draft of the home page, so I marked it up (it's site_index.xml, a standard TEI file in cocoon/site). I had to make some updates to site_content.xsl, and in the process discovered that many of the transformations were being done with the default transformer instead of saxon, so I made some changes to the sitemap to fix this.
At ECH's request, GN added password-protection through changes in WEB-INF/web.xml and to Tomcat-dev's tomcat-users.xml. I've now updated my copy of the first file, and added it to SVN. Found a conflict in SVN with two files and one directory, but there didn't appear to be any actual differences, so I resolved by reverting before making my commit.