Re: LaTeX reledmac: what about ConTeXt ? - Jean-Pierre Delange

From: Jean-Pierre Delange <adeimantos@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: LaTeX reledmac: what about ConTeXt ?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 09:20:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
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Hi Pablo,

Reading the documentation again (i.e. columnsets.pdf), I see that the module \definecolumnset[example][n=2] allow how to define how many pages we want a set of columns, each of one being define with its own number of lines and so on. Therefore, the behaviour of the first page will be different of the second, etc. Further, one have to imagine a first recto (odd) page blank, followed by an even page (even, left page) with a double columns (greek-latin text) and the next third page (odd one) with commentaries. Then, one have to define the layout, because the number of lines of the greek-latin text on left page has to fit with the commentaries on the right page (and because it is not the same layout). Moreover, one can imagine for the moment a printed odd page (on left page) and a blank one (on the right page).
Maybe it is this behaviour (when a page is filled)- and necessary there is another behaviour to deal with when context parse for the even page - about which we have to scrutinize.

The purpose of columnset module is to set how many column for a single page and how to fit this columns to a number of defined pages (with titles and pictures). Its goal is not to make separate columns on the same page. At least as far as I can understand the process.
JP

----- Mail original -----
De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" <adeimantos@free.fr>
À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Envoyé: Samedi 21 Mai 2016 12:16:44
Objet: Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX reledmac: what about ConTeXt ?

Hi Pablo,

I'm trying to find a path through the 2 columns set greek-latin with 'criticus apparatus'.

1. If you put a bigger text for avoid the \dorecurse command, with \definecolumnset[example][n=2, balance=yes] in the preamble, then the following coding (note: \startcolumnset and \stopcolumnset commands), all is well as ends well IF ONLY the text's length is less than a page. If the text length is larger than one page, there is a mismatch as a result, where the latin text goes is overprinted on the French text and the footnotes are overprinted by the Greek text.

2. Moreover, if you comment the \dorecurse command, with a short Greek and Latin text (only a paragraph each), all the notes are well printed, the same for the numbering line, but the French text is overprinted by the right column Latin ! (Points 1., and 2. without  ConteXt complaining or any error in the log file.

3. Now, return to the \dorecurse command, as follow : 
\dorecurse{8}{
\startcolumnset[example]{
    \Stephanus{1a} [1a] Ὁμώνυμα [...greek text...]
etc.
The result is the same as point 2.
I conclude there is a problem with the columnset command...

4. Now, I wonder if there is not a problem with brackets around the Greek-Latin text...
Jp

\starttext
\start\fr % some text in French
    Définir un apparat critique et le mettre en page avec un
    traitement de texte courant est un véritable casse-tête. LaTeX et
    ConTeXt offrent des outils d'automatisation encore assez mal connus
    dans la communauté des éditeurs, notamment dans l'édition
    savante, pour la collation et la comparaison de textes
    médiévaux.\par
\stop

% \dorecurse{8}{
\startcolumnset[example]{
    \Stephanus{1a} [1a] Ὁμώνυμα [...greek text...]
\column

\startlinenumbering[continue]
    Aequivoca dicuntur quorum \CNote{nomen}{première note} solum
    commune est, secundum nomen vero \ANote{substantiae}{seconde note}
    \ANote{ratio}{seconde note} diversa, ut animal
    \DNote{homo}{troisième note} et quod pingitur. Horum enim solum nomen commune est [...Latin text...]
\stoplinenumbering

\stopcolumnset}
\stoptext

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De: "Pablo Rodriguez" <oinos@gmx.es>
À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Envoyé: Vendredi 20 Mai 2016 23:02:34
Objet: Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX reledmac: what about ConTeXt ?

On 05/20/2016 09:51 PM, Jean-Pierre Delange wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Thanks to have correct my mistake. It works !
> If you take this sample and place the number 8 in \dorecurse{4} in
> place of 4, you'll see something which is better than our first
> attempts. Now, it's only the last paragraph of the first page, which is
> messed up. After a somehow puzzled or erratic Wille zu Macht in the
> location of this last paragraph, ConTeXt locates very fine the last ones
> and does what it has to do ! But it's better to say that my code is weak ...

Hi Jean-Pierre,

there is something weird with columns and the last paragraph.

Even using exactly the same text for both left and right columns (as
shown in https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/085544.html),
the paragraph on the left fits on the first page, but the paragraph on
the right doesn’t.

Well, if that isn’t a bug, I’d like to know what I’m missing there.

Pablo
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