[ekdosis] ekdosis v1.2

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear Robert,

Great news all round.

I'm pleased to know that the Marburg (and SOAS?) Sanskritists are working
with Ekdosis.  What you call the "Sandhi problem," by which you mean
something mainly orthographical not phonetic (sandhi), has to a large
extent been solved in the Saktumiva <http://saktumiva.org> system where one
can switch writing systems at will and the system does the right thing with
inter-word spacing from script-to-script.  Dr Charles Li is the author of
Saktumiva, and the code is OA and on Github.

Another Sanskrit issue is hyphenation.  For XeTeX Polyglossia users, as a
user myself, Sanskrit text is already recognized and if tagged with the
right Sanskrit language tag Polyglossia (and Babel) will invoke the
appropriate hyphenation rules for both Devanagari and to IAST Roman
transliteration as well as several other scripts (Bengali, Gujarati,
Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu; thanks to the author Yves Codet, author of
hyph-sa.tex).  However, these rules are simple and sometimes fail.  Over
several years I have been building up a list of manually hyphenated
Sanskrit words and compounds.  Importing my file (\input
sanskrit-hyphenations.tex
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/9n3ei6n2zy4vlx9/sanskrit-hyphenations.tex?dl=0>)
after \begin{document} can help a lot with TeX line-breaking.

Best,
Dominik


On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 08:16, Robert Alessi <alessi at robertalessi.net> wrote:

> Dear members of the ekdosis list,
>
> As I am about to announce v1.2 of ekdosis, I realize that I never made
> any announcement about v1.1.  It must be said that in the last few
> months I somewhat have lost track of my emails.  I will however try to
> catch up in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, please accept my
> apologies for this.
>
> ekdosis v1.1
> ------------
> So v1.1 was published at the beginning of last November, with the
> following new features:---
> - Improved documentation with new sections, notably "Variae
>   Quaestiones"" and "Laying Out Parallel Texts".
> - Compliance to LaTeX 2020-10-01 (namely: inclusion of xparse
>   and new hook management).
> - Improved \DeclareScholar meant to build a list of persons within the
>   <listPerson> TEI element.  A new command \DeclareSource for editions
>   used as sources was added.  As a consequence, 'source' and 'resp'
>   were added as optional arguments of \lem and \rdg.
> - Editorial changes: new commands \supplied, \surplus, \sic and \gap
>   were added among others.
> - Some commands were renamed: \SetxmlBibResource →
>   \AddxmlBibResource and \TeXtoTEIPatt → \TeXtoTEIPat.
> - A new command \addentries was added for modifying the number of
>   accepted entries on the current page.
> - ekdosis was modified to accept any page numbering scheme. (v1.0 only
>   worked on pages numbered with Arabic numerals.)
> - A new command \rdgGrp for sub-variation was added.
>
> ekdosis v1.2
> ------------
> This release has just been published and should be available from the
> mirrors in a couple of days.  The announcement text follows:---
> - Improved support of babel/polyglossia: it is now possible to apply
>   to any layer of the apparatus criticus a language different from the
>   one that is selected in the edition text. This is notably important
>   eg. for Arabic or Sanskrit where it is customary to use a
>   transliteration scheme in the apparatus criticus.
> - New general hooks have been added, allowing for an initial
>   separating rule, the styling of lemma texts and/or variant readings,
>   &c.
> - Poetry: ekdosis can now load and use the facilities provided by the
>   verse package. Verse lines can be numbered independently of prose
>   text. Of course, continuous line numbering remains
>   possible. Indentation patterns are also supported. Furthermore, a
>   specific environment for the encoding of line groups has been
>   added. A detailed example from Raymond MacDonald Alden's edition of
>   Shakespeare's Sonnets from the Quarto of 1609 with variorum readings
>   is provided in the documentation, where an effort has been made to
>   keep the typography and the punctuation of the original edition.
> - Conditional page breaks: the line number and optionally the page
>   number where a page break should occur can be specified. If the
>   conditions specified be not met, then the page break is not
>   triggered.
> - Much improved export to TEI xml.
>
> I am also very happy to announce that ekdosis is being intensively
> tested in large projects involving Sanskrit, Syriac or Arabic edition
> texts.  I should be able to post some news about Syriac and Arabic in
> the coming weeks.
>
> As for Sanskrit, of great interest is that an Anglo-German Haṭha-Yoga
> project is now editing with ekdosis.
> (
> https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb10/iksl/faecher/indologie/aktuelles/news/yoga-projekt
> )
> This work has also led to the development of "babel-iast", a mapping
> system for Romanized Sanskrit in IAST scheme to Unicode Devanāgarī.
> (https://github.com/radardenker/babel-iast)  At the time of writing,
> within the framework of this project, development towards producing
> html output from TEI xml is underway.  Do not hesitate to ask for more
> information should you be interested in knowing more about this.
>
> What is good is that inter-disciplinary work always provides
> opportunities to spot tricky issues, such as what I would call "the
> Sandhi problem" for Sanskrit edition texts, namely rules that dictate
> to write together in Devanāgarī words according to their final and
> initial sound.  All of this has to be rendered properly in the edition
> text, in the apparatus criticus in case some variant gets in the way
> and of course in TEI and html output.  I hope to find a solution to
> work around such issues soon.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Robert
>
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