April 25, 2005

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I spent the weekend working with Apache Cocoon, TEI and Docbook, and eXist. An alphabet stew of XML, XSL/XSLT, DTD/Schema, etc. It was oodles of fun! My grand plan is to cobble together a semantic webbish blogging and wiki cum CMS tool that I can use ... We’ll see.

Posted by jim at April 25, 2005 08:25 AM | TrackBack
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And I think the spaces are important as well.
I read a review of a book by Saegner about the invention od spaces between words- sounded fascinating.
I had used spaces between words to create different meanings in my text-based art work. Words such as "together" and then added spaces to make it "to get her". Then I did a piece with four words: "therapist nowhere together brainwashers" and the viewers punctuated it with spaces to create a more grammatically correct sentence.
Saegner says that the spaced in turn created silent reading, where once before using Scripta Continua it required it to be read out aloud for comprehension.

Posted by: Filius on April 25, 2005 08:11 PM

oops! Sorry that last post was meant to be in response to the post about reading words as shapes etc. You know the Cmabrigde Uinervtisy
one?
I think that spaces make it comprehensible alongside visual shape, context and keeping the first and last letter in the correct arrangement.

Posted by: Filius on April 25, 2005 08:14 PM

I hope it all works better now than it did a few years back, when someone paid me good money to try to do something similar. Would you like to become a tour guide too?

Posted by: trevor@k’alebøl on April 27, 2005 10:07 AM

Trevor, I was kinda hoping it would send me back to gradual school in linguinistics. Besides thinking about the spec gives me something to do on the commute three days a week. If I can get somebody to fund my research, maybe I can come to Barcelona and get a tour ... Nah, those days of VC falling out of trees is over, or so I'm told.

Posted by: jim on April 27, 2005 11:23 AM
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