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+\section*{Text Encoding Initiative publishes guidelines}
+\begin{multicols}{2}
+
+\noindent
+The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has published its
+`Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.'
+This report is the product of several years' work by over a hundred
+experts in fields ranging from computational linguistics to Ancient
+Greek literature. The Guidelines define a format in which electronic
+text materials can be stored on, or transmitted between, any kind of
+computer from a personal microcomputer to a university mainframe. The
+format is independent of the proprietary formats used by commercial
+software packages.
+
+The TEI came into being as the result of the proliferation of mostly
+incompatible encoding formats, which was hampering cooperation and reuse
+of data amongst researchers and teachers. Creating good electronic texts
+is an expensive and time-consuming business. The object of the TEI was
+to ensure that such texts, once created, could continue to be useful
+even after the systems on which they were created had become obsolete.
+This requirement is a particularly important one in today's rapidly
+evolving computer industry.
+
+To make them `future-proof', the TEI Guidelines use an international
+standard for text encoding known as SGML, the Standard Generalized
+Markup Language. SGML was originally developed by the publishing
+industry as a way of reducing the costs of typesetting and reuse of
+electronic manuscripts but has since become widely used by software
+developers, publishers, and government agencies. It is one of the
+enabling technologies which will help the new Digital Libraries take
+shape.
+
+The TEI Guidelines go beyond many other SGML applications currently in
+use. Because they aim to serve the needs of researchers as well as
+teachers and students, they have a particularly ambitious set of goals.
+They must be both easily extensible and easily simplified. And their
+aim is to specify methods capable of dealing with all kinds of texts, in
+all languages and writing systems, from any period in history.
+
+Consequently, the TEI Guidelines provide recommendations not only for
+the encoding of prose texts, but also for verse, drama and other
+performance texts, transcripts of spoken material for linguistic
+research, dictionaries, and terminological data banks.
+
+The Guidelines provide detailed specifications for the documentation of
+electronic materials, their sources, and their encoding. These
+specifications will enable future librarians to catalogue electronic
+texts as efficiently and reliably as they currently catalogue printed
+texts.
+
+The TEI Guidelines also provide optional facilities which can be added
+to the set of basic recommendations. These include methods for encoding
+hypertext links, transcribing primary sources (especially manuscripts),
+representing text-critical apparatus, analyzing names and dates,
+representing figures, formulae, tables, and graphics, and categorizing
+of texts for corpus-linguistic study. The Guidelines also define
+methods of providing linguistic, literary, or historical analysis and
+commentary on a text and documenting areas of uncertainty or ambiguity.
+
+
+The TEI Guidelines have been prepared over a six-year period with grant
+support from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities,
+Directorate General XIII of the Commission of the European Union, the
+Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities
+Research Council of Canada. The effort is largely the product of the
+volunteer work of over a hundred researchers who donated time to share
+their experience in using computers and to work out the specific
+recommendations in the Guidelines.
+
+The project is sponsored by three professional societies active in the
+area of computer applications to text-based research: the Association
+for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and
+Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computational Linguistics.
+
+%Many projects in North America and Europe have already declared their
+%intention of applying the TEI Guidelines in the creation of the large
+%scale electronic textual resources which are increasingly dominating the
+%world of humanities scholarship.
+%
+%The Guidelines are available in paper form or electronic form over the
+%Internet.
+For more information contact the TEI editors by e-mail at
+\texttt{tei@uic.edu} or \texttt{lou@vax.ox.ac.uk}. Orders may be
+placed at the TEI office in Oxford:
+
+\begin{quote}
+TEI Orders, Oxford University Computing Services,\\
+ 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK\\
+\end{quote}
+\end{multicols}