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One step forward, two steps back
Well, it's not really that bad. But during a recent trip to the library, I found and checked out a book specifically about "software project management". If only I'd read it two or so years ago! Well, it was published in 2006, so that wouldn't have been easy.
So, I'm currently reading it, and hopefully it will have some good advice in it to help keep this project on track. I'll see if anything results in a dramatic change to the currently expected roadmap and other plans.
2007-09-14 06:44:05 UTC by karmannjro
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Longer hiatus; restructuring & modularization
Well, this was a rather longer hiatus this time. Non-Internet life dragged me away for a time. But in the meantime, I've still been tweaking the basics of PRML in my mind, if not on my computer. The most significant outcome of this contemplation is that PRML really needs to become modular, much like the latest XHTML is.
But not just because it's the "latest & greatest," and XHTML is doing it. After considering how PRML will interact with documents in various formats and programs, it seems absolutely necessary that it be modular, so that e.g. a plugin for Adobe InDesign doesn't waste its time (and possibly confuse itself) trying to load up the markup specific to an HTML document.
I'm currently working up the XSDs and DTDs to reflect this modular structure. They should be uploaded fairly soon, and some general description of the module structure may be available on the Documentation page sooner than that.
2007-08-09 00:19:03 UTC by karmannjro
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Brief hiatus; Gtk-Perl is back
I've been having a diversion while converting a friend's antique into my server, and with that hardware, it's being an interesting (and lengthy) job. But once it's done, I'll be much freer to use my workstation for testing & development, since it won't have to stay in Linux all the time lest I miss some e-mail or web serving. Once that's done, I'll be focusing on the DTDs etc., and just live with the fact that Perameles is terribly borked for a while.
Manwhile, though, some good news: Although the gtkperl.org website is still defunct, with the release of Fedora Core 4 and its new Extras, I've found that Gtk-Perl is back in the system, although not in the default install. Once things settle down, I'll probably either make sure it's completely obvious how to get the package on your system, or write up just what to do.
2005-06-17 00:47:08 UTC by karmannjro
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PRML's purpose
PRML is aimed at creating a ProofReading Markup Language, since I haven't found anything quite suited to the purpose out there on the 'Net, using XML DTDs and/or schema, and/or XHTML 1.1 modules. This Markup Language would strive to accurately convey any possible imperfections in a printed work (possibly expanded later to include online HTML and such, if there's a demand for it) in a way that makes it clear to printsetters exactly what needs to be fixed, and why. Building on this, a Perl/GTK reference implementation will be programmed, with a PHP/SQL interface to follow.
The initial reference implementation, tentatively named "Proximal" at this point, will be a Perl/GTK program, able to run on typical Linux/*BSD/Mac OSX machines without needing extra libraries or packages. (That's changed since Fedora Core 3, at least, no longer includes Gtk-Perl by default.) It will read a local *.prml file, a http://example.com/sample.prml file over a network, or use a MySQL database which stores author, volume, division, page, and line info. It will display either the version as seen on the printed page, the corrected version of that same region, or both side by side. It will allow the file to be edited to add or remove markup, indicating errors found or already corrected, and save the information back to a local file or the MySQL database.
See more at http://prml.sourceforge.net/
2005-05-07 23:04:34 UTC by karmannjro
