How to cite this paper

Piez, Wendell. “Electronic Verse Engineer.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022, Washington, DC, August 1 - 5, 2022. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 27 (2022). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol27.Piez01.

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022
August 1 - 5, 2022

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.)