Balisage Paper: Electronic Verse Engineer
Wendell Piez
Wendell Piez has been a markup advocate, systems developer, and Balisage presenter since early days.
Abstract
Suppose you want to publish an anthology, with TEI or BITS, for example. Part of the workflow is going to be capturing verse. Electronic Verse Engineer is a Markdown-like interface for capturing verse (as opposed to unstructured paragraphs), with some annotation capability. It can capture prose, if that’s what you have. You type and it makes XML for you. It is meant to be a building block in an Anthology Builder application, to publish your anthology. (I hear that Anthology Building is going to be the next craze—when it happens, you heard it from me.)