Training Materials

Before meeting

Read:

Even Gentler Intro to XML

Statement of Editorial Principles

Session 1

Topics

• Intro to the WWP

• Intro to XML

• Basics of Prose Markup

• Basics of Using Oxygen

• Intro to training materials, overall process
  • WWP Training Guide
  • Getting Started with Encoding

Exercises

• Exercise 0

Homework

• Training Start Page

• Sample Text

Session 2

Topics

• Document Analysis

• Using the Internal Documentation

• Common Markup
  • Persons, Places, &c.
    • <persName>
    • <placeName>
    • <name>
    • <orgName>
  • Quotations & Direct Speech
    • <quote>
    • <said>

• Subversion
  • Version Control and Using Subversion
  • There is also an outline of the basic processes for using Subversion in encoding in Getting started with encoding

Exercises

• Review Exercise 0—anything to add now that we’ve talked about phrase-level markup?
• Exercise 2

Homework

• Read through the internal documentation

Session 3

Topics

• Characters, Spacing, Breaks
  • Unicode Quick Guide
  • Default Break Behavior
  • White Space
  • Typography & Special Characters
  • Hard and Soft Hyphens

• Rendition
  • Rendition Ladders
  • Outline of Keywords & Arguments
  • Delimiters
  • To see a template for setting up renditional defaults, open tagsDecl.xml in under_construction

• Marking changes in rendition
  • <emph>
  • <hi>

Exercises

• Exercise 5: Add rendition to previous exercises

Homework

• Review the materials in Getting started with encoding

Session 4

Topics

• Letters

• Page Breaks & Metawork
  • Page Numbers
  • <milestone>
  • <pb>
  • Metawork
  • Boundaries Between Elements

• • Corrections
    • <sic>
  • Supplied, Missing, & Unclear Text
    • <supplied>
    • <gap>
    • <unclear>

• Workflow: see Getting started with encoding for information on:
  • Trello
  • Change Logs
  • Listserv
  • Wiki
  • Office Texts

Text Selection

• Choose your first text for encoding and claim it on Trello

Session 5

Topics

• Poetry
  • <lg>
  • Encoding Verse

• Drama
  • <sp>
  • <stage>
  • <castList>

• Linking & Referencing
  • Overlap
  • Identifiers
  • Overlap in Direct Speech
  • <note>

Exercises

• Exercise 1: Poetry
• For more practice: Exercise 3 and Exercise 4