TEI Publisher 4.1.0

Wolfgang Meier

This is mainly a bug fix release based on user feedback, but also includes various enhancements and features new demos.

Release Highlights: Dynamic Layout and Custom Translation Alignment

Many users were interested in the correspondence examples, in particular the Serafin and Cortés letters showing transcription and translation side by side. We have focused on enhancing those use cases and close some gaps in functionality. One problem arising in many TEI projects is how to align two or more texts, e.g. a transcription and a translation. In the simplest case, the texts may be aligned on the level of divisions or page breaks. Unfortunately things are not always as simple as that. TEI allows a wide variety of alignment mechanisms, some more complex than others. TEI Publisher 4.1.0 thus implements a generic mechanism to define a mapping function written in XQuery. This is a simple, yet powerful approach. The letter from Cortés to Dantiscus (Mexico) showcases a rather complex mapping.

Van Gogh: Dynamic, Multi Column Example

The Van Gogh edition is often considered a model example for correspondence and several users expressed their wish to create something similar with TEI Publisher. With recent release of XML sources for all the letters we've decided to use one letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin and try to reproduce the dynamic, user configurable, multi column display of the original Van Gogh website using the webcomponents provided by TEI Publisher. The corresponding webcomponents (<pb-grid>/<pb-panel>) have been reworked to make this possible.

Other New Features and Bug Fixes

  • Sort and filter documents by title, author or file name

  • Autocomplete suggestions are now displayed for all search boxes

  • Allow arbitrary footnote labels to be passed via the @n parameter of the note behaviour

  • Support plain images to be displayed by <pb-facsimile> - if a IIIF server is not needed or available

  • Fix uploads of files containing spaces in their names

Get It!

TEI Publisher 4.1.0 is available as an application package on top of the eXist XML Database. Install it into a recent eXist (4.x.x series) by going to the dashboard and selecting TEI Publisher from the package manager.

For more information refer to the documentation or visit the homepage to play around with it.