Lou Burnard wrote:
> Do you have any plans to produce a TEI add on similar to your DITA or 
> Docbook add ons? 

We have started implementing such add-on several months ago and faced 
two problems:

* TEI is huge. Even TEI Lite is huge!

* The XSL style sheets for TEI (by Sebastian Rahtz) seem to be designed 
to produce a good output only with PassiveTeX, not with the other XSL-FO 
processors: Apache FOP, RenderX XEP, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter, etc.

The second problem was the show-stopper. Therefore, we probably won't 
try again any time soon. We prefer to concentrate on XHTML, DocBook and 
DITA.



> What is involved in producing such a utility? 

Weeks of hard work to make TEI on par with XHTML, DocBook and DITA, 
(which is the minimum we can do).

See:

* "XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment" 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/index.html

* "XMLmind XML Editor - Commands" 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/index.html

* "XMLmind XML Editor - Support of Cascading Style Sheets (W3C CSS)" 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/index.html



> It would be of potentially great interest to many TEI users, I think

All the other ``major'' XML editors I know claim to support TEI. 
Therefore, it's not like being in the desert with your notepad.


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