Re: announcement and call

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 11/14/2013 9:40 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:

> What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to
> Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a.
> parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a couple times
> already and at one point someone collected examples [1]. Also, I
> sketched the current state of parallel texts elsewhere [2].

Maybe .. i have some ideas on that but might as well do columnsets first 
(not related to critical editions).

>>                                    so please send examples to the list
>> that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. if you want
>> new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague
>> requests
>
> I have a working albeit hackish (manual page-breaking ftw)
> implementation for the plain format which I wasn’t able to port
> to Context due to the much more complex page model of the latter.
> Example output:
>
>      https://phi-gamma.net/pdf/example-3.pdf
>
> To minimize the vagueness ;-) I could share the sources but I
> doubt it’s of much value in its present state.  Besides, it does
> not work with current Luatex due to changed callback signatures.

Being a trial-and-error-and-experiment-a-lot guy I'll start from scratch 
anyway. Something for dark winter nights and a stack of fresh cd's.

>>           ("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference
>> systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible
>> syntax for it.
>>
>> of course, i can't promise that we will be able to act on all your
>> submissions, but i'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite
>> software better!
>
> Looking forward to status reports! Will the improvements be
> directly merged into Context or do you prefer releasing it as a
> self-contained module?

It will be merged into the core but I can imagine a module with tei 
mapping snippets.

Hans

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