Re: ConTeXt and critical editions

[Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com>]

3/19/02 11:03:13 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

>So, if i got you right (looking at the one page pdf example with 
>(meaningless so it took me a while to see what is going on) critics), 

Well, the code 4 that example is on page 81 of 

TeXLive\texmf\doc\plain\edmac\edmac.dvi

>we're 
>talking about multiple footnotes and line numbers. The multiple 
>footnotes  looks doable (but i need to extend the footnote module, no big 
>deal and on my list since i want note classes but more a matter of careful 
>editing). 

But the code for paragraphed footnates is a bit complicated. See pages 64--69 of edmac.dvi 4 all the issues involved

>The combination with line numbering may be a bit trickery (maybe 
>a two pass job is needed here).

EDMAC is a three-pass system (though u can get away with two passes most of the time)

>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:-)

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.

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.

Best wishes
Idris

>PS. This could be real fancy in columnset -)

Indeed!