Forgive me if I am wrong but I thought that there where programs such as LATEX/LyX tools that are for this purpose? I used one awhile back when I had a assignment to format.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, at 10:39 AM, Jean Duvigneau wrote: > Hello, I am David Shengelia, from Tbilisi, georgia. I am scientist and > work in the institute of manuscipts. I wish to share with you with a > definite problem. The matter is that preparing of old texts (coptic, > syrian, old armenian, old georgian, old greek...) for publication, their > page-proof is connected with different serious problems. Preparing of > these texts for publication (or critical editon) has its requirements.For > one, who knows special program for page-proof (InDisigne, Pagmake...), > but is not specialist in those old languages it will very difficult > prepare such texts for edition. That's why in practice the specialists > have to correct the page-proofed text several times. Besides that, these > programs don't contain special gadgets for critical editions. For > example, the variant of concrete word in critical edition, in reference > must be marked not with a footnote, but with a number of the line in > which this word is written in main text. The > above-mentioned, the page-proofed programs don't have such functions. > For these purposes in these programs must be specially 'done' frame, > where by hand it will be written not only the needed reference, but also > the number of corresponding line.But the matter becomes more complicated > by the fact that any text, while working on it, can be changed several > times. And in this case in reference the designation of the > corresponding number of the line must be corrected by hand. This problem > is mentioned by us as an illustration; there are plenty of such > examples. > For the solution of the problems, connected with the critical edition, > the austrian scientist Stefan Hagel worked out the special program CTE > which can fully automatize all operations > (http://cte.oeaw.ac.at/?id0=main) connected with the publication of the > text. This program is simple; it has MS Word/LibreOfficeWriter interface. > That's why the scientists easily study it and they, themselves, can > easily prepare the critical text for publication. But unfortunately this > program is very expensive and it isn't popularized free of charge. We > think, from the program point of view, that adding of the necessary > gadgets to the LibreOfficWriter or to the similar programs must not be > difficult. LibreOfficeWriter has many gadgets and it will be necessary > only to unite them for facilitating the work. > If there will be no juridical casus, may be it will be possible to set up > easily used, simple alternative program of 'CTE' for spreading free of > charge on the bases of LibreOfficeWriter or the similiar program. With > great pleasure I'll take part in enumerating those concrete functions, > which are necessary for carrying out such programs. With respect David > Shengelia > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Anthony Easthope [email protected] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
