Re: endnotes/critical apparatus

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 19.05.2011 um 17:42 schrieb Daniel Schopper:

> Dear list,
> I’m fiddling around with a simple apparatus for critical editions with endnotes. For now this is working ok - but I’m wondering if somebody could advise me on some aspects of it (see below). Here’s a minimal example:
> 
> […]
> 
> Now, this is obviously a really primitive approach (I’m still learning…) which I’d like to improve in some ways:
> 
> - How can I get rid of the blackrule in the apparatus?
> 	\noexpand\let\blackrule[#1]=\noexpand\relax
> throws an error (You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode.) while
> 	\noexpand\let\blackrule=\noexpand\relax
> eliminates the rule but simply prints the arguments in the square brackets. (Same holds true for every macro with arguments.)

You can use \simplifycommands, see my example below.

> - What to do if I’d want to gobble \crlf or \par in the lemma while using them as separators after each apparatus entry? I tried to \let them to \relax, which ends in luatex getting stuck when it tries to import the .en-file.
> 
> - How could I reset gobbled commands like \bf to their original meaning (I’d like to ignore \bf inside a lemma but still be able to have bold page numbers at the beginning of the apparatus entry)?
> 
> I’m sure there are much more elegant ways to do this (probably in lua?), maybe someone could provide me with a hint where to start from?

You can use contexts own note mechanism to collect the data and place them later in your document.

\define[2]\Apparatus
  {\ifdefined\ApparatusCounter
     \doglobal\increment\ApparatusCounter
   \else
     \doglobal\newcounter\ApparatusCounter
   \fi
   \pagereference[apparatus:page:\ApparatusCounter]%
   \startline[apparatus:line:\ApparatusCounter]{#1}\stopline[apparatus:line:\ApparatusCounter]%
   \begingroup\simplifycommands
   \expanded{\endnote{\at[apparatus:page:\ApparatusCounter]/\noexpand\inline[apparatus:line:\ApparatusCounter]~{#1}]~{#2}}}%
   \endgroup}

\appendtoks\def\blackrule[#1]{}\to\simplifiedcommands
\appendtoks         \def\crlf{}\to\simplifiedcommands
\appendtoks           \def\bf{}\to\simplifiedcommands

\setuplabeltext[en][lines=,line=]

\setupnote
  [endnote]
  [textcommand=\gobbleoneargument,
       command=\gobbleoneargument]

\starttext

\startlinenumbering
That’s a \Apparatus{\bf lemma}{That’s a variant reading…}. \input tufte

But then there’s a blackrule \Apparatus{\blackrule[width=5cm]\crlf and a linebreak}{-- which we don’t want to repeat in the apparatus.}.
\stoplinenumbering

\placenotes[endnote]

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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