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Electronic Textual Editing [With CDROM]

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It had to come to this. As the Web has grown from a purely scientific usage to a mass medium, it has now impacted text editing in the humanities. The chapters cover numerous topics related to this new way of editing and presenting text.

There is a talk about XML, and how this lets the author or reviewer generate her own unique tags. And browsers nowadays often have XML display ability. Other chapters describe Unicode, which truly gives the means of showing every human language.

The use of HTML pages can lead to new ways of displaying poetry and prose. The hyperlinks that are the core of the Web afford new means of crosslinking a text passage, that are simply unavailable on the traditional printed page.

The book conveys that this is an intellectually exciting time. The uncertainty is leading to a ferment of new approaches.