Re: Critical editions with ConTeXt

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>]

On 18/07/12 12:09, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 7/18/12 10:10 AM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote:
>> Hey.
>> First, thanks to Andreas for his solution to the bibliographies.
>> Second, a question: is there a module to produce critical editions with
>> ConTeXt? In critical editions usually have several groups of footnotes
>> and reference is usually made by line number. With LaTeX can be done
>> using "ledmac", but perhaps would have to customize the footnotes with
>> ConTeXt.
>> Thank you.
> 
> No, there isn't a single module to do this. Most of the functionality is 
> there (search for "linenotes" in the mailing list and look at the TEI 
> xml example on the wiki), but you will still have to write your own 
> style/module.

Hi Manuel,

As Thomas replied, linenotes is your friend. TEI XML
(http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml) shows the features of critical
edition typesetting, but you have to learn XML, TEI, ConTeXt and how
ConTeXt deals directly with XML files . This is a much better way to
work with documents, but you'll need to learn much more.

I provide here a minimal example on how ConTeXt works with linenotes:

\definelinenote[lnote]
\setuplinenote[lnote][rule=off,paragraph=yes,numbercommand=,inbetween=\qquad]
\setupdescriptions[lnote][display=yes,location=serried,distance=1em]
\starttext
\startlinenumbering
En un lugar\lnote{lugar: place} de la Mancha, de cuyo
nombre\lnote{nombre: name} no quiero\lnote{querer: want}
acordarme\lnote{acordarse: remember}.
\stoplinenumbering
\stoptext

I'm not a classical philologist, but the way ConTeXt works is much
clearer than ledmac to me (although I have only tested ledmac for a
couple of days).

But there are two features from ledmac that aren't available in ConTeXt
(or at least I don't know how to achieve them):

-ConTeXt numbers all linenotes that come from the same line and there
seems to be no way to limit number in the apparatus to only the first
linenote from that line.

-From the way linenotes are implemented, linenotes mark a point in the
body text, but not a text passage, so it seems to be impossible to refer
to a passage that is typeset in different lines (such as 2-3).

Apart from these two issues and since the other issues involved in
linenotes are known to the ones in this mailing list, it might be easier
that you start a thread at the Spanish TeX mailing list (I'm also
subscribed to that list). I'm only suggesting this, since it might be
easier for you, the topic is known to the members from this list and it
may be interesting for the members from ES-TEX (I apologize if I'm wrong).

I hope this might help,


Pablo
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