Hi Pablo,
thank you for these clarifications — they help me better understand your
scope. On my side, my interest in ConTeXt is primarily that of a
scholar, publisher working on classical and philosophical materials,
together with the aim to understand how the full critical apparatus this
entails. I am trying to understand how the various mechanisms provided
by ConTeXt can serve this kind of editorial work. Concretely, this
includes: lemmatization, multi-level note systems (for instance: level 1
for bibliographical sources, level 2 for lemmatization, level 3 for
glosses), parallel layout of original text and translation in facing
columns, and, more generally, the fine structuring of the text and its
commentary.
Starting from the model of commented editions (e.g. as Geoffrey
Steadman provide it), we recently worked on a mechanism allowing the
production of local glossaries (per block or per page), with vocabulary
reset and reordering at each textual unit — which corresponds well to
the logic of pedagogical or commented editions. As for the specific
issue of alphabetical ordering per page (rather than ordering by
appearance), I have the sense that there must be a dedicated solution,
probably involving a collection phase prior to typesetting. I will
continue to explore this direction.
I am fortunate to be able to devote time to these investigations as part
of my ongoing editorial projects. Time to time, I am currently rewriting
and compltely reorganizing of a French ConTeXt documentation in the form
of a Wikibook — a long-term project that is still very much work in
progress.
In any case, thank you for your reply, which helps clarify both your
focus and the limits of your involvement.
Best//JP
Le 31/01/2026 à 20:14, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context a écrit :
On 1/31/26 01:13, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote:
Hi Pablo,
As I said previously, here is a continuation of my experiments around
lemmatization and glossaries.
Hi Jean-Pierre,
with linenotes, I’m mainly interested in automating the generation of
books such as the commented editions by Geoffrey Steadman.
Critical editions are something different and also require an expertise
I don’t really have.
Page glossaries or page registers are expressions to name the capability
to have per-page notes alphabetically ordered (and not by appearance).
I think that around a decade ago, I tried the Hippocratic Oath (by
Stephen Nimis and Evan Hayes).
Besides the page vocabulary not being alphabetically ordered, I also
noticed that notes may run into the body text when using paragraph notes
(especially when their interlinespace is less than in the body text.
Sorry, but anything different than that is outside my scope. Don’t get
me wrong, digital typography is really interesting to me, but my time is
limited (otherwise it’s hard even to report any issue within ConTeXt).
Best wishes,
Pablo
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