Academic

Follow-up work arising out of the council meeting:

• Set up and tested a working build environment (here documented because I'll have to do it at work too):
  • Setting up repo:

    gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net --recv-keys FEA4973F86A9A497
    sudo apt-key add ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg 

  • Add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

    deb http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/binary ./
    

  • Installing packages:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install psgml xmlstarlet debiandoc-sgml linuxdoc-sgml jing jing-trang-doc libjing-java rnv texlive-xetex
    sudo apt-get install trang-java tei-p5-doc tei-emacs saxon nxml-mode-tei tei-p5-xsl  tei-p5-xsl2 tei-roma onvdl
    

  • Removing gcj to avoid confusion (advice from here):

    sudo apt-get remove `apt-cache search gcj | grep gcj | awk '{print $1}'`
    

  • Checking out the source (in home dir):

    mkdir tei
    cd tei
    svn co https://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tei .
    

  • Test-build of the source:

    cd trunk/P5
    make
    

    Doing this for the first time, the main build was fine, as were most of the tests, but some tests towards the end threw up errors; I'm not sure yet which of these errors might be significant, and how to find that out or do anything about it.
• Went through the minutes from the meeting and gave a bit of feedback.
• Did some reading around in the source code to prepare for my first edit.
• Posted details of my planned edit on the relevant ticket to get feedback before making any actual changes.

Posting time spent over the weekend on preparation work for the workshop (creation of stage diagrams stepping through various files and processes), editing of existing presentations, and a conference call with SB and DJB.

Meetings before and after lunch.

Prepared a presentation for UBC library folks (meeting this morning) on our XML projects and workflows. Used the opportunity to test LibreOffice; xferred to laptop, which has OpenOffice, and found a problem with fonts when arrows were used. Note to self: dump OpenOffice for LibreOffice everywhere, for better compatibility and stability.

Wrote a grouping stylesheet at DJB's request, learning a bit more about grouping than I knew before. Almost perfect, but one last bug I don't have time to fix -- there is one extra page and line showing at the top. Maybe DJB can help figure out the last wrinkle.

Completed the presentation on named templates, and wrote another on xsl:key. Then went through the presentations by the other instructors looking for typos, and sent a report back.

I have two remaining presentations to create, named templates and keys. I've made a start on the first. I have to finish both of them tomorrow because the Brown course starts on Wednesday.

Finished the presentation on constructors and committed it to SVN.

Wrote the first half of a presentation on XSLT constructors, and switched the order of constructors and variables in the topic list so that variables are taught first.

Fixed SVG and PNG graphics (removing unnecessary caption); added solutions for tasks in CSS and Predicate presentations; updated XSLT Topics file; fixed a bug in the places.xml file (which I also fixed in the ColDesp repo).