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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-09 00:49:07 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-09 00:49:07 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/ednotes.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/ednotes.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2914977b9eb --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/ednotes.tex @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +%% Ednotes.tex -- +\title{\LARGE \bf \textit{ednotes.sty} \\ + for critical editions with \LaTeX \\[1ex] + \normalfont \Large + Lazy \texttt{ASCII}$\to$\texttt{PDF} listings} +\author{Uwe L\"uck}%%%\thanks{advised by Christian Tapp.}} +\documentclass[10pt]{article} +\usepackage{verbatim} +\pagestyle{headings} +\newcommand*{\cs}[1]{$\backslash$\texttt{#1}} +\newcommand*{\lcurl}[1]{\[\texttt{CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/#1}\]} +\begin{document} +\maketitle +\section*{Preface} + +\texttt{ednotes[.sty]} is a macro package or bundle of +macro files for critical editions---typed +by U.\,L.\footnote{$\dots$ originally under the direction of +Christian Tapp at a research project granted by the +Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).} +It is little more than a user interface for combining +Stephan~I.\ B\"ottcher's \texttt{lineno.sty} and +Alexander~I.~Rozhenko's \texttt{manyfoot}. + +Nowadays, \texttt{PDF} files are very wanted for +documentation of \TeX\ macro files. +Well, +% such files +% do exist for the underlying \texttt{lineno.sty}--- +% \lcurl{lineno.pdf} +% (plus a supplementary \texttt{lnosuppl.pdf} there)---and +% as +% \lcurl{manyfoot.pdf} +% plus +% \lcurl{nccfoots.pdf} +% for the underlying \texttt{manyfoot.sty}\,. +% +% $\dots$ well, +sorry, a documentation of this kind doesn't exist +at present for \texttt{ednotes} $\dots$---I am just offering +some ersatz \texttt{PDF} documentation: listings of the +\texttt{.sty} files belonging to the \texttt{ednotes} bundle, +structured and navigatable through a table of contents. + +For making use of the options that \texttt{ednotes.sty} +provides, it is vital to know the underlying +\texttt{lineno.sty}---and its documentation. +\texttt{ednotes} just passes \texttt{lineno} commands and +options to the latter. So please notice +\lcurl{lineno/lineno.pdf} +as well as (if you need it) +\lcurl{lineno/lnosuppl.pdf\,.} +In the same directory, there are other macro files that +\texttt{ednotes.sty} may need and whose documentation may +be contained in \texttt{lnosuppl.pdf} (in the same +pseudo-\texttt{PDF}-style as present). + +% Sorry, I haven't had the time for making a proper \texttt{PDF} +% documentation for the present \texttt{ednotes} bundle. +% What I am offering is nothing but a somewhat structured listing +% of the additional \texttt{.txt} and \texttt{.sty} files, +% deriving from the \texttt{verbatim} package and its +% \cs{verbatiminput} command. I hope that the high quality +% (scalable) output is worth it. + +Please don't overlook that \lcurl{lineno/ednotugb.pdf} contains +a (printable) \emph{overview} on the facilities of +\texttt{ednotes}, as well as a comparison with Peter Wilson's +alternative \texttt{ledmac}. + +% \clearpage +\tableofcontents + +\section{The \texttt{.txt} files} +\subsection{\texttt{README.txt}} +\verbatiminput{README.txt} +\subsection{\texttt{CHANGES.txt}} +\verbatiminput{CHANGES.txt} +\subsection{Advice for installation: \texttt{visible.txt}} +These are some very down-to-earth advices for +real \TeX-newbies. +\verbatiminput{visible.txt} +\section{The main file: \texttt{ednotes.sty}} +\verbatiminput{ednotes.sty} +\section{Supplementary macro files} +\subsection{Tracking page break oscillations: + \texttt{lblchng1.sty}} +\verbatiminput{lblchng1.sty} +\subsection{A lemma repeated in a line: \texttt{edcntwd0.sty}} +\verbatiminput{edcntwd0.sty} +\subsection{Some \texttt{para}-footnote hack: \texttt{mfparptc.sty}} +This deals with a problem that still needs much thinking \dots +\par +\verbatiminput{mfparptc.sty} +\subsection{A reminder of obsoleteness: \texttt{mfparxsp.sty}} +This file just tells that some earlier facility dealing with +vertical spacing has been superseded by \texttt{manyfoot}'s +more recent \cs{ExtraParaSkip}\,. +\verbatiminput{mfparxsp.sty} + +\end{document} + +end of Ednotes.tex |