Re: critical editions in context

[Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

OK, I feel guilty resurrecting this stale thread, but I can't resist 
asking again.

I found this in m-arabtex.tex:
%    \pushmacro\edmacloaded   \let \edmacloaded   \undefined

and later

%    \popmacro\edmacloaded

Both lines are commented out, so I'm still wondering if

The absolute basics that are needed for critical editions are:

1. Capability to have footnotes with reference to line-number instead 
of counter. These notes must not end with a newline character (see 
ASCII-art at end of post), but must provide the possibility to have 
several on one line. These notes must not flow, they have to stay on 
the same page as the reference. Horizontal tolerance can be set to very 
sloppy to achieve this

2. Must be possible to apply a format like \bf vel. sim. to the 
reference.

3. Within these notes, it should be possible to refer to other line 
numbers.

4. Nice, but not quite essential: possibility to have notes in more 
than one column.

5. Not absolutely basic, but important for serious work: have more than 
one set of notes referring to the same passage.

Is this possible in ConTeXt "out of the box"? If not, I'd be willing to 
roll up my sleeves and help, but would like to know which would be a 
good starting point.

I looked at core-ltn.tex. I'm not sure if core-nnt and page-nnt refer 
to core-not and page-not; I couldn't find anything appropriate in these 
files.

Best

Thomas

Example what should be possible:

1 This manual is about ConTEXt, a system for typesetting documents.
2 Central element in this name is the word TEX because the typographical
3 programming language TEX is the base for ConTEXt. People who are used
4 to TEX will probably identify this manual as a TEX document. They 
recognise
5 the use of \. One may also notice that the way pararaphs are broken 
into lines
6 is often better than in the avarage typesetting system.

1 manual A: handbook B     2 name A: concept B,C     typographical A:
computational B, euphoric C   4 manual A: handbook B (as in l. 1)

On Sep 23, 2003, at 5:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 09:12 23/09/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> "Thomas A.Schmitz" wrote:
>>
>> > In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange 
>> about
>> > the topic "critical editions in context" here in ntg-context; the 
>> main
>> > question was whether the functionality of edmac could be 
>> implemented in
>> > context. I'd be curious to know whether anything came out of it, I
>> > couldn't find any follow-up.
>>
>> Hans has already done some preliminary work in this direction. I 
>> could not
>> completely test it because the implementations used hooks from e-TeX. 
>> Now
>> that eOmega/Aleph is available I will be able to be a bit more 
>> proactive in
>> testing/suggesting things.
>>
>> I don't remember if Hans added the xperimental stuff for critical 
>> editions
>> to the latest beta. But I'm going to have to start testing this stuff 
>> soon,
>> because the next issue of our journal is supposed to have a couple of 
>> small
>> Arabic critical editions in it.
>
> if i'm right, you have somewhere:
>
> \input page-nnt
> \input core-nnt
> \input core-lnt
>
> (multiple footnote classes, arbitrary footnote placement, line refs in 
> footnotes and so)
>
> Hans