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
Dear Marjorie,
I fully recognise the problem but unless you want do the typesetting yourself, then there is no real need to use any of these packages. My personal experience teaches me that professional typesetters can perfectly set as many layers of footnotes as you need and many of them will take XML or SGML files as input.
Godfried
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Marjorie Burghart Sent: 15 June 2010 09:54 To: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] Multiple streams / stages of footnotes: what solutions?
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
Dear Godfried, Of course, you have a point there: typesetting is a job on its own. Although, there are occasions on which you might want to handle the multiple layers of footnotes: either when you have to prepare the camera-ready file without the help of a professional typesetter (I know many students, for instance, who have to use LaTex for the critical edition included in their thesis, just to obtain the mandatory multiple layers), or also when you simply want to have a "cleaner" apparatus for your own use on a "work-in-progress" critical edition.
Marjorie
Croenen, Godfried wrote:
Dear Marjorie,
I fully recognise the problem but unless you want do the typesetting yourself, then there is no real need to use any of these packages. My personal experience teaches me that professional typesetters can perfectly set as many layers of footnotes as you need and many of them will take XML or SGML files as input.
Godfried
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Marjorie Burghart Sent: 15 June 2010 09:54 To: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] Multiple streams / stages of footnotes: what solutions?
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
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Marjorie Burghart