I'm sure we can all agree that the real tragedy of Macbeth is that it's never before been published in wikitext.
This oversight is now remedied :) - http://macbeth.didaxy.net/ I have been playing with "re-building" texts from their constituent micro-content and it occurred to me that plays are a perfect candidate for this method because of the way they're structured. In fact. when you think about how play-scripts are used by different people, you can start to imagine how doing this might be very useful. For example, it should be possible to tag the individual lines with their time-stamps in different recorded performances. Actors and directors can add notes to the individual lines. Lists of stage directions can be easily extracted. &c. I can imagine an edition of tiddlywiki that let's one import a play script and provides a suite of tools to help with common tasks such as learning one's lines etc. I took the script into tiddlywiki via a spreadsheet and a mail-merge kludge. I got the text from here: http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~matty/Shakespeare/texts/tragedies/macbeth but lined up the line-numbering with the open-source version here: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ In my research for this, I also came across the 'text encoding initiative' http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml which defines a very granular markup for texts. Presumably someone could write a parser to bring these into TW automagically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
