On 11/14/2013 9:40 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a. parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a couple times already and at one point someone collected examples [1]. Also, I sketched the current state of parallel texts elsewhere [2].
Maybe .. i have some ideas on that but might as well do columnsets first (not related to critical editions).
so please send examples to the list that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. if you want new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague requests
I have a working albeit hackish (manual page-breaking ftw) implementation for the plain format which I wasn’t able to port to Context due to the much more complex page model of the latter. Example output:
https://phi-gamma.net/pdf/example-3.pdf
To minimize the vagueness ;-) I could share the sources but I doubt it’s of much value in its present state. Besides, it does not work with current Luatex due to changed callback signatures.
Being a trial-and-error-and-experiment-a-lot guy I'll start from scratch anyway. Something for dark winter nights and a stack of fresh cd's.
("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible syntax for it.
of course, i can't promise that we will be able to act on all your submissions, but i'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite software better!
Looking forward to status reports! Will the improvements be directly merged into Context or do you prefer releasing it as a self-contained module?
It will be merged into the core but I can imagine a module with tei mapping snippets. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------