Re: announcement and call

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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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