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Editors

2009-12-22T02:57:09Z

Julia:

Periodically the question of which editor to use for TEI tasks arises on the TEI mailing list. There is no single answer to this question, but this page attempts to help you frame the question correctly.

Before thinking about an editor, you should think about who is going to be using it, how often, for what and where.

Those from a technical background are already likely to have a preferred programmable editor. Those from a non-technical background are likely to be more interested in ease of use. Occasional or temporary users are going to what a program that works as similarly as possible to the other applications they use, whereas full-time permanent users are more likely to get a benefit from more powerful editor, even if it has a learning curve. Projects which use large XML files need to be aware that some editors struggle with large XML files. The sed editor (see below) is a special case, allowing for truly arbitrary sizes. Users who need to edit files directly on remote servers may need vt100-capable editors (emacs, vi, sed, etc).

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+Editors for TEI, sorted by Beginner-friendliness
|-
! Name !! Operating Systems !! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS FLOSS]? !! Explicit support for XML !! Explicit support for TEI !! URL !!Projects Using !! Beginner-friendliness<br/>(scale 1-10, 1=hard) !! Notes
|-
| [[UltraEdit]] || Win, Linux || No || Yes || No || [http://www.ultraedit.com/] || || 9 || customizable for TEI-support; can handle extremely large files; powerful regex/multi-file replace; macro recording
|-
| [[TextPad (4.73)]] || Win || No || No || No || [http://www.textpad.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 9 || PRO: simple interface, powerful regex/multi-file replace, search-in-files, primary and secondary sort, uniq, diff, hotlinked search results, syntax coloring. CON: no utf-8 support. ||
|-
| [[Emeditor]] || Win || No|| No || No || [http://www.emeditor.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 9 || PRO: large-file support, utf-8 support, diff. ||
|-
| [[EditPad Pro]] || Win ||No || No || No || [http://www.editpadpro.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 8 || PRO: UTF-8 support, excellent character-encoding conversions, syntax coloring, regex search/replace, XML 'content folding', handles large files well. CON: no search-in-files, sort, uniq, or diff. ||
|-
| [[Open XML Editor]] || Win || Yes || Yes || No || [http://www.philo.de/xmledit/] || || 8 || Text-based editing, DTD validation, various input encodings but output only in UTF-8, plugin of Saxon XSLT processor and external hex editor possible ||
|-
| [[oXygen]] || all (Java) || No || Yes || Yes || [http://www.oxygenxml.com/] ||[http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ WWP] [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ DHQ] || 8 || Can validate using DTD, W3C schema, RELAX NG, and Schematron; can run XSL transformations on file; WYSIWYG mode using CSS ||
|-
| [[XML Copy Editor|XMLcopyEditor]] || Win, Ubuntu || Yes || Yes || Yes || [http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 7 || Free; validates to DTD, XSD, Relax.ng ||
|-
| [[epcEdit]] || Win, Linux, Solaris || No || Yes || No || [http://www.epcedit.com] ||[http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/ TCP]|| 7 || Free; also supports SGML; feels a bit like XMetaL ||
|-
| [[jEdit]] || all (Java) || Yes || Yes || Yes || [http://www.jedit.org/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ NZETC] || 7 || XML use requires plugins, and only supports DTDs ||
|-
| [[Emacs]] || Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris || Yes || Yes || No || [http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/] || [http://www.nzetc.org/ NZETC] [http://www.wwp.brown.edu/ WWP]|| 3 || (See also [[TEIEmacs]]) TEI customizations available at http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Software/tei-emacs/; best mode for TEI XML is nXML, using RELAX NG compact schemas. For Mac look for Aquamacs package ||
|-
| [[vi]] || Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris || Yes || No || No || [http://www.vim.org/] || || 1 ||
|-
| [[sed]] || Mac, Win, Linux, Solaris || Yes || No || No || [http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html] || || -1 ||
|-
| [[Notepad++]]|| Win || Yes || || || [http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/] || || || ||
|-
| [[Sacodeyl Annotator]]|| all (Java) || || || || [http://www.um.es/sacodeyl/en/pages/software.htm#annotator] || || || ||
|-
| [[Serna|Serna Free]]|| || Yes || Yes || Yes || [http://www.syntext.com/downloads/serna-free/] || || || ||
|-
| [[TextMate]]|| MacOS || No || || No || [http://macromates.com/] || || || An extension is needed for XML editing ||
|-
| [[XmlBlueprint]]|| Win || || || || [http://www.xmlblueprint.com/] || || || ||
|-
| [[XMLmind]]|| all (Java) || No || Yes || No || [http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/] || || || A free version exists. ||
|-
| [[XMLSpy]]|| all (Java) || No || Yes || No || [http://www.altova.com/xml-editor/] || || || ||
|-
| [[XmlWriter]]|| Win || || || || [http://xmlwriter.net/] || || || ||
|-
| [[Editix]]|| Win, Linux, MacOS || No || Yes || No || [http://www.editix.com/] || || || A free Lite version exists. ||
|-
| [[Exchanger XML Editor]]||all (Java) || || || || [http://www.exchangerxml.com/editor/] || || || ||
|-

|}

== Humour ==

Tension between emacs and vi users is longstanding and well summarised on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war Editor war] Wikipedia page. vi was included in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX POSIX] standard, whereas emacs was not, perhaps because vi was historically available in multiple implementations from multiple vendors. The following cartoon illustrates the commonly-held assumptions that emacs and vi and very powerful but obscure while their competitors make users do all the work.

[[Image:0xbabaf000l.png|Copyright (c) 2007 Laurent Gregoire http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/0xBABAF000L/10_en.html]]

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User:Julia

2007-09-17T13:33:03Z

Julia:

Julia Flanders

[http://www.wwp.brown.edu Women Writers Project], Brown University

Providence, RI USA

The WWP's work is very closely tied to that of the TEI, and I have been involved with the TEI for a number of years. We explore detailed applications of TEI encoding for early women's writing in English.

[[Category:Users|Julia]]

User:Julia

2007-09-17T13:32:26Z

Julia:

User:Julia

2007-09-17T13:30:18Z

Julia:

Julia Flanders
Women Writers Project, Brown University

I work closely with the TEI and the WWP's work is also very much centered in this area.

Digital Humanities Quarterly

2007-09-16T21:59:52Z

Julia:

[[Category:Publications]]

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to using open standards and experimentation with digital formats. It publishes a wide range of scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, software, and digital publications. Submissions on all aspects of TEI markup theory and practice are invited.

For more information on submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.

Digital Humanities Quarterly

2007-09-16T21:56:23Z

Julia:

[[Category:Publications]]

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to using open standards and experimentation with digital formats. It publishes a wide range of scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, software, and digital publications.

For more information on submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.

Digital Humanities Quarterly

2007-09-16T21:55:39Z

Julia:

[[Categories:Publications]]

Digital Humanities Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to using open standards and experimentation with digital formats. It publishes a wide range of scholarly articles, editorials, experiments in interactive media, and reviews of books, software, and digital publications.

For more information on submission guidelines, please visit http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/.