[ekdosis] ekdosis v1.0

[Dominik Wujastyk]

This is wonderful.  Thank you!

Regarding the oscillating pagebreak problem, we had the same issue in
EDMAC.

Best,
Dominik

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On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 02:32, Robert Alessi <alessi at robertalessi.net> wrote:

> Dear members of the list,
>
> ekdosis v1.0
> ============
> As some of you may have noticed, ekdosis v1.0 was published on July
> 14th.
>
> As I was progressing in the documentation, I had occasions to improve
> existing functions and add new features, the most important of which is
> a new option 'maxentries' to \DeclareApparatus.  This option is
> summarized here:
> http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/ekdosis/ekdosis.pdf#section*.22
> and described in detail here:
> 10
> http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/ekdosis/ekdosis.pdf#section.9
>
> 'maxentries' allows to set a limit to the number of entries per page
> that a given layer of critical notes may accept.  This is particularly
> important in complex editions when critical notes are very abundant in
> number.  In some instances, ekdosis may oscillate indefinitely between
> different sets of page decisions without being able to settle down.
>
> In such cases, a simple \pagebreak immediately gets the editor out of
> trouble, and this solution may be the way to go when only a hanful of
> \pagebreak are needed for the whole edition text.  However, with
> 'maxentries', ekdosis will take care of automatically inserting the
> breakpoints between pages whenever the number of entries on a given
> page reaches the value set as 'maxentries'.[1] It must not be too
> small or to big, but once the correct value has been found, it may be
> deemed as the 'magic number' of the edition for ekdosis should then
> always take the right decisions.
>
> ekdosis v1.1
> ============
> At the time of writing, ekdosis v1.1 is complete and should be
> published in the days to come.  This release provides a new set of
> commands for inserting editorial notes such as conjectures and
> emendations.  It also introduces \DeclareSource to declare sources
> available in print in libraries.  As a consequence, \DeclareScholar
> should now be restricted to declaring persons to go within
> <listPerson> and <sourceDesc> in the TEI header.  This is why it has
> been extended to accept optional arguments such as 'forename',
> 'surname', etc.  This is very convenient as it allows at the least to
> declare oneself as a person responsible for emendations, corrections
> and conjectures!
>
> ekdosis v1.2
> ============
> This one should be out in a couple of weeks.  It will allow for
> milestone elements.  Then I will focus on poetry, correspondence,
> alignment and segmentation.  Most of the code is ready, but I still
> need to perform intensive testing before merging it into the master
> branch.
>
> With best wishes, and happy TeXing!
>
> Robert
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  By the way, I mistakenly wrote 'maxnumber' instead of
> 'maxentries' in three places in the current documentation.  Sorry about
> that.
>
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