[ekdosis] ekdosis 1.4 is out (and 1.5 on the way)

[Robert Alessi]

Dear subscribers,

Please accept my apologies for I haven't posted much news on the list
lately.  I would like to invite you to check out the latest
announcements for ekdosis on CTAN.[1]

ekdosis now has its own website, check it out now!
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			http://www.ekdosis.org

As a result, the address of this mailing list to which you are all
subscribed has been changed as well: it is now
<ekdosis at ekdosis.org>. Please update your address book accordingly!

ekdosis.org will make available to the editors documents that will
allow them to train progressively, such as a Quickstart Guide and a
full set of documents tailored to most of the possible layouts,
arranged with regard to their level of intricacy.

ekdosis 1.4 new features
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The easiest way to check out the new features is to start from the
full PDF documentation,[2] then search for the string 'v1.4': this
will take you to the pages where all the details about these new
features are described. A concise list of these follows:—

- Apparatus criticus:
  1. Allow for optional subseparators in the apparatus criticus.
  2. New option 'keepinapp' to have critical symbols used in the
     edition text such as <>{}[] and the like printed in the
     apparatus as well.
  3. New option 'familysep' to allow for alternate separators between
     families of manuscripts in the apparatus.
- Poetry
  1. New command \\+ for inserting line breaks between verse lines
     without indenting the subsequent line, while abiding by any
     indentation pattern previously defined.
  2. New option 'vnumbrokenlines' to have both parts of broken lines
     numbered.
  3. New command \vmodulolinenumbers[n] to enable or modify verse
     modulo line numbering.
- ekdosis 1.4 now uses its own internal page numbering scheme instead
  of absolute page numbers.  This way, the edition text and its
  associated apparatus remain stable even if the number of pages that
  precede it varies.
- v1.5 of ekdosis to come will take further advantage of this new
  feature for multiple or large edition texts.  This next version will
  be able to compile selected sections of edition texts *only*, while
  leaving sections of which the text is ready untouched.  This way,
  when editors have to deal with large texts, it will be possible to
  compile only the few pages being worked on.  The speed of the
  overall process will be greatly improved!
- As for v1.6, it will allow for insertion of arbitrary TEI xml
  attributes through LaTeX commands or environments, including
  xml:ids.

Stay tuned and have a happy TeXing!

Robert

Footnotes:
[1]  https://ctan.org/ctan-ann/pkg/ekdosis (The relevant items start
     from 2020-11-05.)

[2]  http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/ekdosis/ekdosis.pdf

-- 
Robert Alessi
CNRS UMR 8167 «Orient & Méditerranée» (Paris)