the state of mark twain project online
Sherry Darling asked on SEDIT-L recently about practices used in publishing documentary materials to the web. Here is my response on behalf of Mark Twain Project Online; I wanted also to post anything at all this year to this blog, so I’ve included the response below.
Sirens 2012
The fourth occurrence of Sirens, a conference about women in/and fantasy fiction, took place 11–14 October 2012 in Stevenson, Washington, which is about an hour east of Portland, Oregon. I didn’t take my laptop and thus didn’t liveblog any sessions, but I tweeted a bit. See the end of the Storify embedded below for next […]
a little light javascript
If you ever need to convert HTML+CSS (such as that created by WordPerfect or Word export) to generic TEI, you can write a JavaScript function that e.g. gathers up all the <span>s and iterates through them one at a time in an array, and then you do something like this to them. (What’s an array? […]
abstract for “Textual Portability”
Herewith the abstract for “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330,” my 2006 dissertation, partly so that I can reach it without rooting around in metaphorically dusty folders of my laptop’s backup external hard drive:
status: mid-june 2012
So much for blogging more regularly; aside from the usual vagaries of life, I’ve been working on a couple of side projects. One is secret till completed. The other involves copy-editing part of a cool forthcoming game by Keith Nemitz called 7 Grand Steps. Instead of inventing something interesting to write about, therefore, I’ll lay […]