org-critical-edition (a package for philologists and classicists)

org-critical-edition (a package for philologists and classicists)

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi all,

I have uploaded the (very) initial version of my package
org-critical-edition:

https://gitlab.com/maciaschain/org-critical-edition

This package lets you prepare a philological critical edition in Org
Mode. The natural output is LaTeX with the reledmac package
(https://www.ctan.org/pkg/reledmac).

(For those who are not philologists, this is an example of critical
edition that I typesetted recently: https://imgur.com/a/drqCib5)

Feedback welcome!

Best regards,

Juan Manuel

Re: org-critical-edition (a package for philologists and classicists)

[Christian Moe]

Very neat!

Curious about a design choice: If I understand correctly,
org-critical-edition puts the hidden notes in the description and the
visible annotated text in the target of an org link. This is the reverse
of the out-of-the-box link appearance (description visible, target
hidden if description present). Why take the extra trouble to do it this
way?

Yours,
Christian

Juan Manuel Macías writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I have uploaded the (very) initial version of my package
> org-critical-edition:
>
> https://gitlab.com/maciaschain/org-critical-edition
>
> This package lets you prepare a philological critical edition in Org
> Mode. The natural output is LaTeX with the reledmac package
> (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/reledmac).
>
> (For those who are not philologists, this is an example of critical
> edition that I typesetted recently: https://imgur.com/a/drqCib5)
>
> Feedback welcome!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel

Re: org-critical-edition (a package for philologists and classicists)

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Christian, thank you very much for your comments.

Christian Moe writes:

> Very neat!
>
> Curious about a design choice: If I understand correctly,
> org-critical-edition puts the hidden notes in the description and the
> visible annotated text in the target of an org link. This is the reverse
> of the out-of-the-box link appearance (description visible, target
> hidden if description present). Why take the extra trouble to do it this
> way?
>

Indeed, the decision to reverse the order of the link appearance may
seem somewhat shocking :-) I did it like this to keep a syntactic
structure similar to the reledmac command \edtext, when the user (the
reledmac user) views the links full displayed. In LaTeX/reledmac the
structure is:

...some text... \edtext{annotated passage}{critical notes} ...some text...

The annotated passage is part of the text and is also the "lemma" in the
critical note.

In org-critical-edition I define a new link type called `edtext', using
`org-link-set-parameters', and the identifying string (`edtext:') must be
placed in the target part.

Best regards,

Juan Manuel