Current Status of the TEI The TEI is now completing the publication of its second public draft (TEI P2) and the revision of already published drafts in preparation for the formal publication of the TEI Guidelines (TEI P3). The chapters already published include: * P2AB: About These Guidelines (published 1993-03-13) * P2SG: A Gentle Introduction to SGML (1993-08-27) * P2ST: Structure of the TEI DTDs (1993-04-07) * P2CH (was P221): Characters and Character Sets (1992-07-17) * P2HD (was P222): The TEI Header (1992-08-19) * P2CO: Tags Available in All TEI Documents (1992-12-10) * P2DS: Default Text Structure (1993-03-26) * P2PR: Base Tag Set for Prose (1992-10-24) * P2DR: Base Tag Set for Drama (1993-08-20) * P2TS (was P234): Base Tag Set for Transcription of Spoken Texts (1992-04-23) * P2TE: Base Tag Set for Terminological Data (1992-12-23) * P2SA: Additional Tag Set for Segmentation, Alignment, and Linking (1993-01-27) * P2CC: Additional Tag Set for Language Corpora (1993-03-11) * P2GR: Formal Grammar for the TEI-Interchange Subset of SGML (1992-12-04) The following chapters exist in draft form and will be published shortly, after which the cumulative draft will be published as a single entity (TEI P3): * P2VE: Base Tag Set for Verse * P2LM: Base Tag Set for Letters and Memoranda * P2DI: Base Tag Set for Printed Dictionaries * P2CB: Composite Texts and Combining Bases * P2AI: Additional Tag Set for Simple Analysis and Interpretation * P2FS: Additional Tag Set for Feature Structures * P2CE: Indications of Certainty and Responsibility * P2PH: Additional Tag Set for Transcriptions of Primary Sources * P2TC: Additional Tag Set for Text-Critical Apparatus * P2ND: Additional Tag Set for Names and Dates * P2GD: Additional Tag Set for Networks, Graphs, Digraphs, and Trees * P2SH: The Independent Header * P2WD: The Writing System Declaration * P2FD: The Feature System Declaration * P2TD: Tag Set Documentation * P2CF: Conformance * P2MD: Modifying the TEI DTDs The following DTD files have been published; these suffice for the large majority of expected uses of the TEI Guidelines; * Top-level DTD fragments tei2.dtd teiclas2.ent * Core tag sets teihdr2.dtd teicore2.dtd teipl2.dtd * Base Tag Sets teipros2.dtd teidram2.ent teidram2.dtd teispok2.ent teispok2.dtd teiterm2.ent teiterm2.dtd teite2n.dtd teite2f.dtd * Common Text Structure (used by many bases) teistr2.dtd teifron2.dtd teiback2.dtd * Additional Tag Sets teisa2.dtd teicorp2.dtd It is expected that TEI P3 will be sent to the printer in October 1993, and will be available for distribution in November.