At 09:43 AM 3/20/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>Well, the code 4 that example is on page 81 of
>
>TeXLive\texmf\doc\plain\edmac\edmac.dvi
hm, dvips bombs on it and i have must adit that i have not configured a dvi
viewer (for a long time); will try that again later
> >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:-)
What trickery?
>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.
nesting is already covered, crossing pages should not be a problem either.
>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.
well, i prefer to start from a proper list of requirements, (i may find
some time for the multiple footnote stuff so i can then handle this
critizing feature as well; configuring is trivial once i know what need to
be configured);
Hans
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