From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18975 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: critical editions in context / arabtex Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:20:53 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <0533666F-ECD1-11D7-8EC5-00039318D414@uni-bonn.de> <5.2.0.9.1.20030923174431.0214f7b8@server-1> <1245b284b7ba7296b7a7ef9773bc0d78@uni-bonn.de> <4234C391.2080007@wxs.nl> <580886c6ca9e782db4e305c3f11c63eb@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110904090 25133 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2005 16:28:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 15 17:28:10 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBEnc-00081y-Mm for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:21:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648C8127DA; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:22:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27967-03; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:22:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2371279B; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:20:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5B61279B for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:20:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27967-02 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:20:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E151278A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:20:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j2FGKsS365644 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:20:54 -0700 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j2FGKsH59416 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:20:54 -0700 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <580886c6ca9e782db4e305c3f11c63eb@uni-bonn.de> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18975 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:30:38 +0100, Thomas A.Schmitz=20 wrote: > Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not=20 > arabtex. Could the edmac macros just be part of a Context module? I actually considered that. During my own pre-ConTeXt work I dived deep=20 into the EDMAC code and made changes so that I could do real 100%=20 right-to-left critical editions. EDMAC has its own OTR, however, which=20 makes it difficult to merely plug it in to ConTeXt or even LaTeX (though=20 there has been a recent port to LaTeX). As soon as I finish my present book project this month (I'm really=20 behind-<) I'll be working on the critical edition business as well (I hav= e=20 to finish a critical edition for Springer Verlag (formerly Kluwer) this=20 spring); maybe we can share notes and bother Hans together;-) Idris --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523