5.0699 Rs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP; Footnotes in Ventura (3/83)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 19 Feb 1992 21:27:17 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0699. Wednesday, 19 Feb 1992.
(1) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:07:36 +0000 (43 lines)
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: Re: 5.0685 [Double column footnotes in Ventura]
(2) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:18:09 +0000 (21 lines)
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP
(3) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 10:57:06 GMT (19 lines)
From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk>
Subject: Double-column footnotes in Ventura
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:07:36 +0000
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP; Greek;... (4/72)
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> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 17:18:00 GMT
> From: ach@aberystwyth.ac.uk
> Subject: Double-column footnotes in Ventura Publisher
>
> If the above is not possible, does anyone know of a package
> which could manage it (apart from TeX which I imagine could do the job
> with a lot of tweaking)? (The footnotes in question are really variant
> readings to a verse text.)
>
> Any suggestions, however laborious, gratefully received!
> Thanks, Andrew Hawke
>
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Andrew, you need EDMAC. This is a plain TeX format specifically for dealing
with critical editions. It does two- and three-column footnotes, as well
as run-on paragraph notes. It allows up to five layers of footnotes
(formats separately controllable), and automatically deals with line
numbering and footnote referencing by line number.
There is nothing in the commercial world that can do any of this.
EDMAC is written up in _TUGboat: The communications of the TeX Users Group_,
volume 11(4), 1990, pp.623-643.
It's free, of course. Get in touch if you want to know more.
Dominik
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:18:09 +0000
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP
[...]
Downloadable Tamil and Sanskrit fonts would not be any use for WordPerfect,
since both fonts have upwards of 200 ligatures. You need an intelligent,
context-sensitive input system, or some equivalent, to deal with
these scripts.
There are really only two choices. Multilingual Scholar (by Gamma
Productions) can do Sanskrit and Tamil with a WYSIWYG display, and
its best output is on laser printers.
TeX has support for Sanskrit and Tamil, has WYSIWYG preview (but not
data entry), and prints on anything up to a phototypesetter. It is
free, and so are the fonts.
Dominik
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 10:57:06 GMT
From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk>
Subject: Double-column footnotes in Ventura
I haven't used Ventura for Windows, but I have spent much of the last month
making up text with double-column footnotes in Ventura 2. The solution
is to put the text into the main page frame, and to store the footnotes
in a different file, which is then imported into a separate frame on the
bottom of the page. That frame is defined as double-column and is full
page width, with outer margins the same width as the main frame.
You simply paste the frame onto the next page after making up the first
page, and use the mouse to move the boundaries between the frames to
get the right number of footnotes on each page. You may have to fiddle
with the margins in the footnote frame as well. It's tedious, but it
works.
Christopher
c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk