About this documentation

This document sets out a series of exercises introducing the Anastasia electronic publishing system. By the end of this series of exercises, you will:

• Have seen how Anastasia works
• Have met most of the commands which enable Anastasia to work
• Have seen enough of Anastasia to know if it can do what you want it to do (usually, the answer is ‘yes’) - and to decide if you like the way it does it
• Have learnt enough to make your own electronic publications with Anastasia.

Anastasia is developed and distributed by Scholarly Digital Editions, Leicester, UK. You can contact SDE by email at sales@sd-editions.com or support@sd-editions.com. See too the website, www.sd-editions.com/anastasia.

This document is one of four documents which form the Anastasia help system. The other three are the simple Specimen book, Making a digital edition with TEI and Anastasia, and the Anastasia Reference Documentation. The electronic books for all four are available in this distribution. You could:

• Work your way through this document first. This contains a simplified introduction to show how Anastasia works
• As you work your way through this, you could go to the Reference documentation, for a more formal account of the features you meet in Anastasia and how it works
• The document ‘Making a digital edition with TEI and Anastasia’ is intended as a more extended version of this ‘Getting Started’ document. It presents, in workshop form, instructions for making a full digital transcript, with metadata, of Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie Letter, itself a rather remarkable document in Australian history. It goes over the same ground as this ‘Getting Started’ document, but in considerably more detail.