%% %% This is file `djdpoems.tex', %% generated with the docstrip utility. %% %% The original source files were: %% %% ledpar.dtx (with options: `djdpoems') %% %% Author: Author: Peter Wilson Maïeul Rouquette maieul at maieul dot net (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net %% Copyright 2004, 2005 Peter R. Wilson %% %% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the %% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either %% version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any %% later version. %% The latest version of the license is in %% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt %% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of %% LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later. %% %% This work has the LPPL maintenance status "unmaintained". %% %% This work consists of the files listed in the README file. %% %%% djdpoems.tex example parallel verses on facing pages \documentclass{article} \usepackage{ledmac,ledpar} \addtolength{\textheight}{-15\baselineskip} \maxchunks{24} % default value = 10 \setstanzaindents{6,0,1,0,1} \newcommand{\longdash}{---------} \footparagraph{A} % for left pages \footparagraph{B} % for right pages \firstlinenum{1} \linenumincrement{1} \let\oldBfootfmt\Bfootfmt \renewcommand{\Bfootfmt}[3]{% \let\printlines\printlinesR \oldBfootfmt{#1}{#2}{#3}} \begin{document} \newcommand{\interstanza}{\pstart\centering\longdash\skipnumbering\pend} \begin{pages} \begin{Leftside} \def\endstanzaextra{\interstanza} \beginnumbering \stanza Arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam & edere, materi\={a} conveniente modis. & Par erat inferior versus---risisse Cupido & dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem. \& \stanza ``Quis tibi, saeve puer, dedit hoc in carmina iuris? & Pieridum vates, non tua turba \edtext{sumus}{\Afootnote{note lost}}. & Quid si praeripiat flavae V\u{e}nus arma Minervae, & ventilet accensas flava Minerva faces? \& \stanza Quis probet in silvis Cererem regnare iugosis, & lege pharetratae Virginis arva coli? & Crinibus insignem quis \edtext{acuta}{\Afootnote{acut\={a} (abl.\ abs.)}} cuspide Phoebum & instruat, Aoniam Marte movente lyram? \& \endnumbering \end{Leftside} \begin{Rightside} \def\endstanzaextra{\interstanza} \beginnumbering \firstlinenum{1} \linenumincrement{1} \setstanzaindents{6,0,1,0,1,0} \stanza I was preparing to sing of weapons and violent wars, & in heavy numbers, with the subject matter suited to the verse measure. & The even lines were as long as the odd ones, but Cupid laughed, & they said, and he stole away one foot.\footnote{I.e., the even lines, which were hexameters (with six feet) became pentameters (with five feet).} \& \stanza ``O cruel boy, who gave you the right over poetry? & We poets belong to the Pierides,\footnote{Muses} we are not your folk. & \edlabel{beginparadox}What if Venus should seize away the arms of Minerva with the golden hair, & if Minerva with the golden hair should fan alight the kindled torch of love? \& \stanza Who would approve of Ceres\footnote{Ceres was the Roman goddess of the harvest.} reigning on the woodland ridges, & and of land tilled under the law of the Maid with the quiver\footnote{By `\textit{Virgo}' (`Virgin') Ovid means Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt.}? & Who would provide Phoebus with his beautiful hair with a sharp-pointed spear, & while Mars stirs the \edtext{Aonian}{\Bfootnote{Mount Parnassus, where the Muses live, is located in Aonia.}} lyre?\edlabel{endparadox}\footnote{Lines \xlineref{beginparadox}--\xlineref{endparadox} show some paradoxical situations that would occur if the gods didn't stay with their own business.} \& \endnumbering \end{Rightside} \Pages \end{pages} \begin{pages} \begin{Leftside} \def\endstanzaextra{\interstanza} \beginnumbering \begin{astanza} Arma gravi numero violentaque bella parabam & edere, materi\={a} conveniente modis. & Par erat inferior versus---risisse Cupido & dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem. \& \end{astanza} \begin{astanza} ``Quis tibi, saeve puer, dedit hoc in carmina iuris? & Pieridum vates, non tua turba \edtext{sumus}{\Afootnote{note lost}}. & Quid si praeripiat flavae V\u{e}nus arma Minervae, & ventilet accensas flava Minerva faces? \& \end{astanza} \begin{astanza} Quis probet in silvis Cererem regnare iugosis, & lege pharetratae Virginis arva coli? & Crinibus insignem quis \edtext{acuta}{\Afootnote{acut\={a} (abl.\ abs.)}} cuspide Phoebum & instruat, Aoniam Marte movente lyram? \& \end{astanza} \endnumbering \end{Leftside} \begin{Rightside} \def\endstanzaextra{\interstanza} \beginnumbering \firstlinenum{1} \linenumincrement{1} \setstanzaindents{6,0,1,0,1,0} \begin{astanza} I was preparing to sing of weapons and violent wars, & in heavy numbers, with the subject matter suited to the verse measure. & The even lines were as long as the odd ones, but Cupid laughed, & they said, and he stole away one foot.\footnote{I.e., the even lines, which were hexameters (with six feet) became pentameters (with five feet).} \& \end{astanza} \begin{astanza} ``O cruel boy, who gave you the right over poetry? & We poets belong to the Pierides,\footnote{Muses} we are not your folk. & \edlabel{beginparadox}What if Venus should seize away the arms of Minerva with the golden hair, & if Minerva with the golden hair should fan alight the kindled torch of love? \& \end{astanza} \begin{astanza} Who would approve of Ceres\footnote{Ceres was the Roman goddess of the harvest.} reigning on the woodland ridges, & and of land tilled under the law of the Maid with the quiver\footnote{By `\textit{Virgo}' (`Virgin') Ovid means Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt.}? & Who would provide Phoebus with his beautiful hair with a sharp-pointed spear, & while Mars stirs the \edtext{Aonian}{\Bfootnote{Mount Parnassus, where the Muses live, is located in Aonia.}} lyre?\edlabel{endparadox}\footnote{Lines \xlineref{beginparadox}--\xlineref{endparadox} show some paradoxical situations that would occur if the gods didn't stay with their own business.} \& \end{astanza} \endnumbering \end{Rightside} \Pages \end{pages} \end{document} \endinput %% %% End of file `djdpoems.tex'.