On 11/14/2013 8:06 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 11/14/2013 03:08 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Dear list,
today, I have an announcement to make and a call for contributions. We
have obtained a medium-sized grant at my university to further
development of ConTeXt. Specifically, our project wants to facilitate
typesetting critical editions after the TEI xml standard and
bibliographical data. Luigi will be employed as a full-time developer
for the next 6 months (he signed his contract today); Hans will
coordinate the work flow.
Thomas,
congratulations for the excellent news.
So this is good news. Now for the call for contributions: we invite you
to send in examples in those two areas (critical editions, i.e.
linenotes cum suis, and bibliographical data, aka bib-module) which show
where ConTeXt could be developed. So please send examples to the list
that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. If you want
new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague
requests ("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference
systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible
syntax for it.
Are the requests to be addressed to this mailing list? Or do you plan
something like a GitHub repository?
Of course, I can't promise that we will be able to act on all your
submissions, but I'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite
software better!
Many thanks for this project, because it benefits us all.
Just send initial requests to the list so that others also know about
it. Luigi will collect and organize all that and put things in a
repository. Then we will decide on what to take into account (on top of
Thomas' requirements). There will be a repository (svn or so) on a
dedicated machine at Thomas' faculty.
Among the direct context related things are
- a rewrite of bib modules (partially already done)
- extensions to the (line)note mechanisms etc
- the ability to plug in a bib processor (bibtex, mlbibtex, whatever we
like)
I'll probably start with that next month.
There might be other new things showing up, and we might also look at
some pending luatex opening op that relate to our problems.
One thing that will also be done, is document the reasonable subset of
tei for doing the kind of things Thomas does so we're talking of pure
tex approaches alongside context-xml driven workflows.
As Thomas said: we're not going to act on vague requirements that lack
examples.
Hans
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