From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7389 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and critical editions Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:14:59 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020320060448.042548d8@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020319185845.03201e90@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397857 18826 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:30:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Idris Samawi Hamid In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7389 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7389 At 09:43 AM 3/20/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >Well, the code 4 that example is on page 81 of > >TeXLive\texmf\doc\plain\edmac\edmac.dvi hm, dvips bombs on it and i have must adit that i have not configured a dvi viewer (for a long time); will try that again later > >It this all there is about critical editions, or is there more trickery > >needed? How configurable should this be? > >Much more trickery, I'm afraid:-) What trickery? >Note that the lemma of \text{} may contain further text commands. Nested notes >will commonly be necessary: it's quite likely that we'll have an >explanatory note for a long passage and notes on variants for >individual words within that passage. Features for changing the line >number that's sent to the notes r part of Edmac as well. The \lemma{} >command changes the lemma that gets passed to the >notes. Sometimes a note will continue on the next page and so page numbers >as well as line numbers have to be considered. nesting is already covered, crossing pages should not be a problem either. >A few other things to note as well; please see the bottom of p. 6 of >edmac.dvi to the end of chapter 2. All of the configurability features are >mentioned there. See also the example code in Appendix >A od edmac.dvi. > >Thnx 4 taking interest! If u decide to implement EDMAC's functionality I >have a couple of suggestions 4 improvements as well. well, i prefer to start from a proper list of requirements, (i may find some time for the multiple footnote stuff so i can then handle this critizing feature as well; configuring is trivial once i know what need to be configured); Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------