Re: critical editions in context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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
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