Re: TEI U5 russian translation

[Boris Tobotras <boris@xtalk.msk.su>]

On Thu, 02 Jul 1998 17:28:08 BST, Lou Burnard wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Boris Tobotras wrote:
> 
> |        TEI U5: "Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI" is
> |now freely available for download in Russian translation. URLs are:
> |
> |        http://xtalk.price.ru/SGML/tei_ed.rtf.gz
> |        http://xtalk.price.ru/SGML/tei_ed.ps.gz
> |--
> 
> 
> That's wonderful! But surely surely you have a version in some format
> other than RTF or Postscript???

	NO! *cries loudly*

	This work was outsourced without my knowledge, fact I've regret 
immediately upon results reception. MS Word format, without any glimpses 
of stylistic markup :-/

> As you know I'm trying to collect
> these translations together on the OTA's web site -- I need an HTML
> (or preferably a TEI-lite) version for this to work. Is it available,
> or do I have to retro-convert it myself?

	Well, I've up-translated it to TEI Lite, but will require a lot 
of hand work to be useful. I'll do it wherever time will allow :(
 
> Have you also considered producing a version in which (at least some
> of) the English examples are replaced by equivalent Russian ones? I

	Yes, one of the pitiest mistakes done there.

> would imagine that this would make the text much more useful to
> Russian users. It has been done for both French and Italian versions
> 
> but thanks again for doing this -- I am sure it will attract a lot of
> interest

	It does, at least, access_log asserts so :)

-- 
	Best regards, -- Boris.