Dear list, As those of you who have had the pleasure to tackle critical editions in printed form, the traditional mutiple streams or "stages" of footnotes (variants + biblical references + sources, for instance) are a real pain, and very few solutions are offered.
I knew of two, mainly (leaving aside InDesign and the like): LaTex (for the bold and slightly geeky critical editor with time on his hands), and the Classical Text Editor, an apparently quite interesting text editor dedicated to critical editions (unfortunately rather expensive).
I have just discovered that, apparently, a word processor for MacOSX is capable of handling those multiple layers: http://www.redlers.com/mellelscholars.htm See also for a more detailed explanation of the footnotes features p. 111- 124 in the PDF manual: http://www.connectnw.com/redlers/MellelGuide.pdf Unfortunately, I have no MacOsX at hand for the moment, and haven't been able to give this word processor a test yet. But I would be very interested to hear from the DM-L list members, if ever some of you had tried this Mellel software.
More generally, do some of you use other solutions to handle multiple streams of footnotes in their *printed* editions, and what is your assesment of the various solutions?
Best, Marjorie