From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18976 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: critical editions in context / arabtex Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:37 +0100 Message-ID: <42370E25.4020302@wxs.nl> References: <0533666F-ECD1-11D7-8EC5-00039318D414@uni-bonn.de> <5.2.0.9.1.20030923174431.0214f7b8@server-1> <1245b284b7ba7296b7a7ef9773bc0d78@uni-bonn.de> <4234C391.2080007@wxs.nl> <580886c6ca9e782db4e305c3f11c63eb@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110904723 27490 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2005 16:38:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 15 17:38:42 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBEys-0001HZ-DG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:33:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC644127C5; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:34:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28296-01; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:34:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B73127DC; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140F7127DC for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27966-06-2 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472F4127C5 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2FGWarR006316 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id CBE731803F; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:16:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC75817B39 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:16:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/705/Fri Feb 11 17:51:32 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18976 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18976 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:30:38 +0100, Thomas A.Schmitz > wrote: > >> Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not >> arabtex. Could the edmac macros just be part of a Context module? > > > I actually considered that. During my own pre-ConTeXt work I dived deep > into the EDMAC code and made changes so that I could do real 100% > right-to-left critical editions. EDMAC has its own OTR, however, which > makes it difficult to merely plug it in to ConTeXt or even LaTeX (though > there has been a recent port to LaTeX). > > As soon as I finish my present book project this month (I'm really > behind-<) I'll be working on the critical edition business as well (I > have to finish a critical edition for Springer Verlag (formerly Kluwer) > this spring); maybe we can share notes and bother Hans together;-) sounds ok to me; also keep in mind that much of what you want is already there! Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------