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

["Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>]

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