Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/22/2015 11:33 PM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear Pablo, Thank you very much for what you proposed — it did work indeed. I tried to achieve the same at some length this afternoon. I think I understand what is going on in the first macro, but wouldn’t have been able to arrive at the the

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-23 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/22/2015 11:33 PM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear Pablo, Thank you very much for what you proposed — it did work indeed. I tried to achieve the same at some length this afternoon. I think I understand what is going on in the first macro, but wouldn’t have been able to arrive at the

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/22/2015 09:26 PM, Talal wrote: [...] I would like to be able to automate (through macros) the making of a critical apparatus' note. This is for two reasons. First, the body text and the lemma in the note below should be identical: as such, they ideally not have to be typed twice, as it

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread Talal
Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl writes: Actually ranges have always been supported ... Maybe I should add those commands. Hans Picking up on an old thread, again. The document below lays out the three basic parts of a critical apparatus of a critical edition of a text: (1) the body text;

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Dear Pablo, Thank you very much for what you proposed — it did work indeed. I tried to achieve the same at some length this afternoon. I think I understand what is going on in the first macro, but wouldn’t have been able to arrive at the the second one for \variant, or the counter (and still

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
[If this is considered too off-topic for this list, please ignore this mail. My main point has still something to do with ConTeXt, but I guess this discussion shouldn't be continued on the list.] On 07/22/2012 08:07 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: And to explain that a bit: it's not merely ugly. If

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 20/07/12 22:41, Hans Hagen wrote: On 20-7-2012 20:21, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: [...] And to explain that a bit: it's not merely ugly. If all you want is the printed book, you don't care about the ugliness and simply code this way to get the desired output. However, we are in the 21st

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 20/07/12 20:21, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: [...] And to explain that a bit: it's not merely ugly. If all you want is the printed book, you don't care about the ugliness and simply code this way to get the desired output. However, we are in the 21st century. We should be beyond the point

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Just a few comments on this helpful mail: On 07/19/2012 12:57 PM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: 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). I haven't looked at ledmac too closely, and of

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 20-7-2012 17:41, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This may be a bit more difficult, because it involves thinking about proper input syntax. How do you want to mark this passage? If you can come up with clean and unequivocal syntax and demonstrate it in an example, your chances aren't too bad.

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/20/2012 06:45 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Actually ranges have always been supported (as we needed in the previous century already for referring to passages in texts where students had to comment on): Yes, that's something I forgot in my mail: ask on the list, and chances are that it has

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I'm trying to get straight in my head what critical-edition-related commands are already implemented in ConTeXt. Implemented: (a) footnotes on specific lines, specified inline: \linenote{note text} (b) ditto on line ranges: \startlinenote[tag]{note text} ... \stoplinenote[tag] (c) tag a line and

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.07.2012 um 19:33 schrieb Sietse Brouwer: Hans wrote: but as you mention the interface is a bit problematic as start/stop is not nice when being nested Do you mean it doesn't look nice, or is it so that nesting or interleaving \startlinenote[tag] ... \stoplinenote[tag] environments

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 20/07/12 17:41, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Just a few comments on this helpful mail: Thank you very much for your reply, Thomas. On 07/19/2012 12:57 PM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: I'm not a classical philologist, but the way ConTeXt works is much clearer than ledmac to me (although I

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/20/2012 08:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hans speaks about something like this \startone … \starttwo … \stopone … \stopone where environment ranges overlap. And to explain that a bit: it's not merely ugly. If all you want is the printed book, you don't care about the ugliness and

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 20-7-2012 20:21, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 07/20/2012 08:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hans speaks about something like this \startone … \starttwo … \stopone … \stopone where environment ranges overlap. And to explain that a bit: it's not merely ugly. If all you want is the printed

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-19 Thread MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ
Hi Pablo..Thanks for your quick response. The truth is that I am very, very newbie working with ConTeXt (in fact I know only a few months) but I think the possibilities are extraordinary for all kinds of documents.The issue of critical issues is fairly well resolved in LaTeX with ledmac, but I

[NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ
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,

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
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

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
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

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context / arabtex

2005-03-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not arabtex. Could the edmac macros just be part of a Context module? not so much edmac, but similar functionality; as idris suggests: just provide a request for functionality + examples; think about what you

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2005-03-16 Thread h h extern
) On Sep 23, 2003, at 5:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: At 09:12 23/09/2003 -0600, you wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context / arabtex

2005-03-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:30:38 +0100, Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not 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 into the

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context / arabtex

2005-03-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:30:38 +0100, Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not arabtex. Could the edmac macros just be part of a Context module? I actually considered that. During my own pre-ConTeXt work

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context / arabtex

2005-03-13 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: OK, I feel guilty resurrecting this stale thread, but I can't resist asking again. I found this in m-arabtex.tex: %\pushmacro\edmacloaded \let \edmacloaded \undefined and later %\popmacro\edmacloaded Both lines are commented out, so I'm still wondering if i

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2005-03-12 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether anything came out

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2005-03-12 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
, 2003, at 5:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: At 09:12 23/09/2003 -0600, you wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality

[NTG-context] critical editions in context

2003-09-23 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Sorry if this is a double post; I sent this message on Friday, and I think it somehow got lost. In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi Thomas, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether