On 07/22/2015 09:26 PM, Talal wrote:
[...] I would like to be able to automate (through macros) the making of a critical apparatus' note. This is for two reasons. First, the body text and the lemma in the note below should be identical: as such, they ideally not have to be typed twice, as it introduces the possibility of error. Furthermore, if one manually writes out \linenote{Lemma ] Comment} in the body of the text, you forego the separation of content and style, since the separator ] has been hardcoded in.
Hi Talal, I wonder whether creating a new thread should be the right thing to do. The original thread is three years old. Anyway, this may help you (it isn’t my original code): \unexpanded\def\doVariant#1#2#3% {\startlinenote[#1]{#2] #3}#2\stoplinenote[#1]} \newcounter\countvariants \unexpanded\def\variant {\doglobal\increment\countvariants \normalexpanded{\doVariant{Varia:\countvariants}}} \starttext \startlinenumbering \dorecurse{20}{\variant{donald e knuth}{herman zapf} } \stoplinenumbering \stoptext BTW, it has a “minor issue”: hyphenation doesn’t work in the body text It works fine in the notes. I reported this, but I’m afraid it hasn’t been solved. Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk