Meeting in a lab should be the first clue that this course approaches markup and hypertext by doing. A number of you have expressed an interest in making TEI editions of texts, presumably for online browsing; we will survey existing archives and make some small editions, using EMACS PSGML mode for markup and Panorama for browsing.

I view the *MLs as a new medium for writing/expression, and we will move toward exploring these potentials in the hypertext middle of the course, building on George Landow's Hypertext 2.0. Just to see what he is talking about and work with it hands on is a decent piece of work, but we will also extract certain issues that seem to run through this discourse.

A leading feature of this new medium is the new mixture of text and image: the net wants visuals, and is forging rich systems of signification which, if we want to be writers and critics in this medium, we must learn how to describe and discuss. This is the third part.

As we embark, I offer the following motto to help adjust expectations: with technology, nothing works exactly right and some days nothing works at all.

To work and learn in this environment, you need equal (and large) amounts of patience and vision, and to believe in the inspirational and curative powers of sleep. Working in this area is thrilling and highly addictive:

Resources

hardware:

• ASCC is a LAN--we can read, down and upload to the Uniform Access computers and the Net, but we cannot be reached from outside. For greatest flexibility, upload your work with WSFTP32 (the blue icon on the left of the Desktop) at the end of a session.
• you will have a special ASCC login and password--good here only--that will enable you to read the class drive and save to a drive which will appear to you as "J" but cannot be seen by anyone else.
• When you are logged in, you will be able to read drive H, our class drive in the lab
• the printer is across the hall in the entry room; hitting the print button on Netscape will send the page over there to be printed. There are at present no limits on how much class-related stuff you can print. I recommend printing a copy of this document now, and future assigned readings the day before they will be discussed.
• there is a scanner across the hall also. You can login in and use it, following instructions
• You can telnet to your mail or saul accounts with EWAN, the gray socket icon on the left of the Desktop.

Software

• under F:\Appl\web:
  • PaintShopPro (aka PSP, PSPRO) (version 4.1)--image editor
  • Mapedit--good for making imagemaps
  • Primestyle--a Cascading Style Sheet editor for HTML
• under C:\TEI:
  • EMACS--our editor for markup (also accessible from "Start>Programs>GnuEmacs
  • NB--if you have 25 Meg at home and want your own EMACS . . .
  • extra: tutorials on using EMACS
• under C:\PP2: the Panorama Pro 2 browser; also accessible from "Start>Programs>Softquad>Panopro2"
• under H:\:
  • Bryan--readings
  • readings--including PatchWork Girl
  • sgmlarchive--including shaksper
• plus two major URLs:
  • English 569 Home and Syllabus (this doc)
  • SGMLWeb

Topics and Assignments

Markup Languages

• Document structure; markup for structure/for display--29 Sept.-1 Oct.
  • Bryan, "sgml2"
  • Dillon--markup
  • in lab: using the Panorama Pro 2 browser
• Elements, attributes, entities--6 Oct.
  • Bryan, "sgml5-6"
  • "Gentle Introduction to SGML"
• DTD's, system and formal public identifiers--8 Oct.
  • in lab: using EMACS for markup (and see eb-tut1-3.htm in C:\tei\extra)

TEI(LITE)

• Overview--Oct.13
  • teiu5: --Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI
• Assignment: a TEILITE "edition" of a poem, play, story, essay--Oct. 20
  • Guide to Document Preparation at UVA
• REF, XREF, and HREF--hypertext links--Oct. 20
  • http://vasari.cartah.washington.edu/SGMLWeb/teiarchive/Ota.ox.ac.uk/Plost.sgml
  • Using stylesheet and navigator editors in PP2; annotation webs; edition due--Oct.22

Part II--more like a seminar

Here we will use focus reports on the readings.

George L. Dillon
University of Washington
Nov. 1, 1998