Hi Arthur and Hans,
I make a statement on a part of the Arthur's reply (" there are no real-life
examples of documents that use it") : in fact, there are rare examples of such
printing materials : scholar editing and printing of Ancient texts are mainly
(if I am right) such printing material (including Ancient Armenian or Georgian
liturgic hymns).
An example of such a book : on the even page you read a 'twocolumns' text (say
: Greek text with its Latin translation) with there own page setting, including
Stephanus apparatus in the footer, and several levels of footnotes within the
same footer. Commentaries (in English, French, German, usw) and the like are on
the odd page. The average (or regular) situation seems to be less complicated :
Greek or Latin text on the even page and translation on the odd page. With
Pablo Rodriguez help (actually, this is mainly Pablo's work) I have tried to
figure such a goal. But before setting up the even/odd page, there is an issue
which one has to fix: the text on two columns is well fitted on the first page,
but not on the following pages. How to fix this issue with Greek text on the
left column and Latin Text on the right one ? See the mismatch between texts on
the second page in the sample below .
Thank you very much for your remarks and advices.
JP
\setuplanguage[agr][patterns={agr,la}]
\mainlanguage[agr] % Greek as main language
\definefallbackfamily [mainface] [serif] [GFS Didot] [preset=range:greek]
\definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [TeX Gyre Pagella]
\setuplayout[header=2cm, footer=2cm]
\setupnotes[compress=yes]
\setupnotations[alternative=serried]
\definelinenote[aNote]
\definelinenote[bNote][n=2]
\definelinenote[cNote][n=3]
\definelinenote[dNote][paragraph=yes]
\def\ANote#1#2{#1\aNote{#1] #2}}
\def\BNote#1#2{#1\bNote{#1] #2}}
\def\CNote#1#2{#1\cNote{#1] #2}}
\def\DNote#1#2{#1\dNote{#1] #2}}
\setupalign[hz, hanging]
\setuptolerance[strict]
\setuplinenumbering[step=5, location=inright, distance=1ex,
align=center, width=0.5em]
\definemargindata[Stephanus][location=inner, distance=2ex,
style=\em]
\setupbodyfont[mainface, 7.8pt]
% \definecolumnset[example][n=2, balance=yes]
\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
\blank
\start\en % some text in English
{\em It is not very easy to define a `criticus apparatus' with some current
tools (like Microsoft Office Word or LibreOffice). Maybe \ConTeXt offers some
ways that seem easier, in order to improve clear and precise printing.}
\stop
\dorecurse{4}{\startcolumns[n=2, balance=yes]
\Stephanus{1a} Ὁμώνυμα λέγεται ὧν ὄνομα μόνον κοινόν, ὁ δὲ κατὰ τοὔνομα
λόγος τῆς οὐσίας ἕτερος, οἷον ζῷον ὅ τε ἄνθρωπος καὶ τὸ γεγραμμένον• τούτων γὰρ
ὄνομα μόνον κοινόν, ὁ δὲ κατὰ τοὔνομα λόγος τῆς οὐσίας ἕτερος• ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποδιδῷ
τις τί ἐστιν αὐτῶν ἑκατέρῳ τὸ ζῴῳ εἶναι, ἴδιον ἑκατέρου λόγον ἀποδώσει.
συνώνυμα δὲ λέγεται ὧν τό τε ὄνομα κοινὸν καὶ ὁ κατὰ τοὔνομα λόγος τῆς οὐσίας ὁ
αὐτός, οἷον ζῷον ὅ τε ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὁ βοῦς• τούτων γὰρ ἑκάτερον κοινῷ ὀνόματι
προσαγορεύεται ζῷον, καὶ ὁ λόγος δὲ τῆς οὐσίας ὁ αὐτός• ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποδιδῷ τις τὸν
ἑκατέρου λόγον τί ἐστιν αὐτῶν ἑκατέρῳ τὸ ζῴῳ εἶναι, τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον ἀποδώσει.
\column
\startlinenumbering[continue]
Aequivoca dicuntur quorum \CNote{nomen}{first note} solum
commune est, secundum nomen vero \ANote{substantiae}{second note}
\ANote{ratio}{second note} diversa, ut animal
\DNote{homo}{third note} et quod pingitur. Horum enim solum nomen commune
est, secundum nomen vero substantiae ratio diversa; si enim quis assignet quid
est utrique eorum quo sint animalia, propriam assignabit utriusque rationem.
Univoca vero dicuntur quorum et nomen commune est et secundum nomen eadem
substantiae ratio, ut animal homo atque bos.
\stoplinenumbering
\stopcolumns}
\stoptext
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De: "Arthur Reutenauer" <arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>
À: "Mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Envoyé: Mardi 15 Novembre 2016 17:39:40
Objet: Re: [NTG-context] Wrtiting in two languages
> 2) Second situation : you want to print a translation on the same page (say
> the even page) as the original Greek text, with the commentary (or whatever)
> on the odd page. I fear there is no way to do this at the time (that was
> impossible with CTX early in 2016). I didn't retry these former weeks...
Actually, there has been, for quite a long time, a mechanism called
streams in ConTeXt that aimed at doing exactly that. It’s incomplete
and there are no real-life examples of documents that use it, but I know
that Hans is ready to look into it again provided someone comes up with
a sensible use case, and some details of what should be achieved.
Best,
Arthur
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