Il giorno lun, 25-04-2005 alle 12:04 +0100, Lou Burnard ha scritto:
Roma is currently under active development, and we hope to unveil a new and much improved version within a month or so; we are also actively trying to develop training material to accompany it (there's a very preliminary initial draft at http://www.tei-c.org/Drafts/edw88.xml)
Got it, thanks.
The version of Roma online at http://www.tei-c.org/Roma should be reasonably stable however and I will do my best to sort out any problems that are reported using it.
I think that it should definitely be the preferred way to produce custom views/versions of the TEI DTD/Schema, especially for inexperienced users like me. IMHO the UI should be modified to become a sort of "wizard" (if you want I can expand on this).
Roma is very definitely intended to generate DTDs as well as schemas, and we have never suggested that it was a "schema-only" tool.
That was my assumption, mainly because I found a short tutorial on tei-c.uk only mentioning schema production.
However, there are (in the nature of things) some things which DTDs cannot do and schemas can, which in turn has led to some bugs in the DTD generation part of the current online version.
Hmmm, that also brings to mind another interesting question: should I stay with P4 or move to P5 (and possibly schema?). Going to ask this same question on the TEI ml.
At present Roma's author, Sebastian Rahtz, is in a part of the world blessed with only sporadic email contact, which means that bugs don't get fixed quite as rapidly as they would if he were here, nor when fixed do they necessarily get propagated to the publicly accessible servers as rapidly as they would if I didn't have 99 other jobs to do as well.
I can understand that :)
Nevertheless, if you would like to send me a copy of the misbehaving ODD you mention, I'd be very glad to advise. Just make the modifications you want, and then press the Save button (rather than the Schema button): this will save your modification specification as an ODD in XML format. Send me that.
Alas, the disk partition holding my unsuccessful attempts has long moved to the Digital Heavens of Reformatted Hardware