Spectator Technical Notes

Note to the Reader:

The technical aspects of the Spectator project have changed (the date of this note: 2003-05-29).

2000 to 2001

• Text is scanned into tif files which will also serve as archival copies.
• TIF files are rendered into simple text using OCR software.
• The text files are proof-read and edited as necessary.
• The footnotes are appended to the issue and numbered.
• The text is marked up using a variety of editors:
  
  

  Amaya W3C's Editor/Browser

  KDE Advanced Editor

  GNU Emacs

• Tidy is used to validate the code and transfer it to XHTML.
• The footnote javascript is cut and pasted into the issue. Remember to remove double quotes (") from the text in the javascript, use single quotes (').
• The finished pages are transferred from the workstation to the host server by sftp.

2001 to 2002

• We moved from XHTML to XML. If you are interested in the XML markup, please see: LatinML
• We used Cocoon from the Apache Foundation to transfrom the XML to HTML so that any browser could render the XML text.
• Please refer to the Spectator XML page for those issues in XML and XHTML. These were marked up almost entirely with vim.

2002 to 2003

• All of the Spectator is now available in DjVu format.
• Please refer to the Spectator Main Page for other texts including the Tatler and Bailey's Dictionary.