Trying "oitei" - An Automatic Conversion Tool from OpenITI mARkdown to TEI XML
Introduction In the OpenITI (Open Islamicate Texts Initiative) project, which handles historical texts from the Islamicate world, texts can be tagged using a lightweight notation called mARkdown instead of TEI/XML. While TEI/XML is a powerful international standard for structuring texts, it has problems with right-to-left (RTL) languages like Arabic, where mixing XML tags causes display issues in editors. mARkdown was designed to solve this problem. In this article, we will try running oitei, a Python tool that automatically converts mARkdown texts to TEI XML. ...
