TC Notes: A Message from the Editor

Message 5 - March 3, 1998

                       Frames and Other Changes to TC

In conjunction with the publication of the first six articles in TC 3
(1998), TC has undergone major changes in its appearance on the Web. Most
noticeable is the use of frames to allow readers to move between articles,
tables of contents , the TC home page, and other TC pages with greater ease.
The TC home page, the table of contents pages, and the TC Links page (and
perhaps others in the future) will make use of a vertical navigator on the
left side of the sc reen that allows users to jump immediately to other TC
pages. These pages will also use a horizontal frame at the bottom of the
screen for navigating within a particular page. I hope that these
innovations will make browsing TC more enjoya ble and finding information
easier.

A second major change can be seen on the table of contents pages. In the
past, readers were given a choice on the table of contents pages among
articles that used transliterated text, original scripts, and text-only
versions of articles stored on the TC FTP site. The new policy will be to
have readers who want to read an article link directly to the original
scripts page by default, from which they can choose to view the
transliteration or text-only pages. The advent of Embedded Fonts (see TC
Notes 3) and the ready availability of Web browsers that display these
fonts, as well as a desire to simplify the table of contents pages, prompted
us to make this change.

Peer-reviewed electronic journals are rapidly becoming accepted as
legitimate scholarly publications, and with the publication of the six
articles on the Novum Testamentum Graecum Editio Critica Maior, TC continues
to be a leader among el ectronic journals in the field of biblical studies.
It is my hope that the changes we have made to the look of TC will not be
merely cosmetic but will enhance the usefulness of our site, highlighting
some of the advantages that electronic publishi ng has to offer to the
scholarly community.