I've used jEdit and I love Oxygen but neither of those are super practical for students (either too buggy or too expensive) learning TEI. I'm playing around with Eclipse this next semester with my students and we're (at DCC, see dcc.umd.edu) working up documentation so that others can set it up.
Is there good FREE software 2 recommend for students learning 2 encode TEI text?
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Wayne Graham
MemberBest AnswerThere is a lot of free XML editors out there, which can be roughly split between IDE (like oXygen and Eclipse) and text editors (jEdit). Here's a list of editors I've tried out in the past:
IDE:
- Netbeans: http://netbeans.org/
- Butterfly XML: http://sourceforge.net/projects/butterflyxml/Text Editors
- TEIEmacs: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/TEIEmacs
- vim: http://www.vim.org/
- Redcar: http://redcareditor.com/
- TextMate: http://macromates.com/The only one on the list that costs money is TextMate (~$54 US), but I've found that I can do everything in Redcar that I can in Textmate.
My all-time favorite editor for TEI is TEIEmacs. Once you learn how emacs works, this tool make encoding really easy. I quite honestly have found nothing else that allows me to encode faster. However, it's not for everyone. I like the Netbeans IDE, and Textmate/Redcar is my favorite GUI text editor (though I will fall back to vim a lot).
I think the important things to have in place is a workflow that allows students to get some immediate feedback (e.g. a transform button/command) that they can visualize their work in a medium they're more comfortable with (HTML). To that end, both the Netbeans and Eclipse editors have this. With other plugins available for those IDEs, you could even build a nice workflow for delivering them to a source code management system (svn, git, etc.), and pushing to a "production" server for a DCC showcase.
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