Re: An attempt to prepare critical editions within Org

[Denis Maier <denismaier@mailbox.org>]

Am 20.05.2021 um 13:45 schrieb Juan Manuel Macías:
> Hi,
> 
> If there is a philologist among the colisters who is working on critical
> editions (a type of text with several complex apparatus of footnotes and
> endnotes, and with numbering and various material at the margin ---an
> example of critical edition I recently typesetted for a German publisher:
> https://maciaschain.gitlab.io/lunotipia/images/muestras_cariton1.png),
> you may find the following interesting.
> 
> I am working on a package, org-critical-edition, to prepare philological
> critical editions from the comfort of Org Mode. The natural backend of
> these documents should be LaTeX with the 'reledmac' package
> (https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac), an excellent package mantained by
> Maïeul Rouquette (https://github.com/maieul/ledmac), that is the most
> mature option to work in this type of texts within LaTeX. But in the
> future I may add some support to export data to the TEI-xml standard,
> widely used in Humanities.
> 
> The basic idea of my package is that the 'critical notes' are always
> hidden and only the annotated passages are shown in the text (they are
> actually Org links, but what is shown is the target, while the
> description and the target label remains invisible). Each critical note
> can be edited or created (over a marked region) in a dedicated buffer.
> 
> Soon I will upload to GitLab a first version of the package (quite
> immature at the moment: feedback welcome!) but here is a brief
> screencast:
> https://lunotipia.juanmanuelmacias.com/images/org-critical-edition.mp4
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Juan Manuel
> 

Not a philologist, but that looks very promising.

Denis