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Gabriel Arazas b088086b06 Merge evergreen notes into the notebook
Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it
is just my notes after all.

I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is
this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my
"Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and
hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under
version control already.
2021-07-21 16:28:07 +08:00

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Text Encoding Initiative

Having your research stored as text files written in a lightweight markup language is great. However, certain information can still get lost in the way. For example, certain words like "London" can either mean the famous capital of England, a city in France, or certain people with the name. You can find similar situations with Wikipedia disambiguation pages (like the previous example).

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) attempts to solve exactly that. It's a standard that focuses on the semantic meaning of the words. Being a standard, it also frees the writers from software dependency and developers have to follow it instead.

The specification uses XML for markup and there are various tools for creating TEI-specific contents aside from the already existing ecosystem of XML-related tools. It can also export into various formats through XSLT 2.0 stylesheets including HTML, LaTeX, and JSON files.