ledgroup not breaking across pages
Arash
I am using ledmac's ledgroup environment and familiar footnotes to
typeset a critical edition of short texts. As a result the two column
apparatus of each text appears below it. This works indeed very well.
The problem is, however, that the apparatus does not break across
pages. Most of the texts are not more than 4 lines long. But as soon
as the apparatus grows over the remaining space of an A4 paper, XeTeX
moves it to a new page, leaving me with lots of ugly white space after
each text.
Is there a way around this problem?
Many thanks in advance, any help is highly appreciated.
jorge sallum
\ledgroup is in fact a minipage. At these cases you could simply try
to avoid \ledgroup and let the text run, but at the end, you'll need
to break the page in order to avoid mixing critical and main text, and
depending on the amount of text, you'll have white spaces too. If it
doesn't work, please put an example here, so we can reproduce it.
J.
jorge sallum
you make use... but it seems to me that the problem doesn't concern
ledmac. So, I would sugest you to open another post asking about how
to control spaces and minipages. And, if you don't mind, I would tell
you to avoid setspace.sty until you get it and try first fixed spaces
(\kern command, but pay attention if it's in vertical mode!). Look,
for instance inside setspace.sty the command \onehalfspacing:
\newcommand{\onehalfspacing}{%
\setstretch{1.25}% default
\ifcase \@ptsize \relax % 10pt
\setstretch {1.25}%
\or % 11pt
\setstretch {1.213}%
\or % 12pt
\setstretch {1.241}%
\fi
}
It's for stretch the space!
Goodluck,
Jorge Sallum
On Jul 23, 4:48 pm, Arash <a.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Jul, 16:06, jorge sallum <jo...@hedra.com.br> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jul 22, 2:33 pm, Arash <a.ze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello All,
>
> > > I am using ledmac'sledgroupenvironment and familiar footnotes to
> Thanks. That is indeed a good point. I tried your suggestion and it
> produced a different layout than intended and introduced some other
> problems. I have a complex layout and will try to explain and attach
> an example.
> I use \begin{compactdesc} to divide my text in lines. Let's say, if
> the first portion of text has 3 lines, then they should appear
> together. The CA should come after all three lines. When I remove
> \ledgroup the first two lines come first with the critical notes and
> the third line is moved to the next page with its own set of notes.
>
> It is difficult to make a working example, I hope this works:
>
> \TeXXeTstate=1
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrreprt}
>
> \usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,xunicode}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont{Charis SIL}
> \setsansfont{FreeSans}
> \newfontfamily{\pahlavi}{Charis SIL}
> \newfontfamily{\avestand}{Gentium}
>
> \usepackage[a4paper,margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> \usepackage{arcs}
> \usepackage{ledmac}
> \usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
> \usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage{abstract}
> \usepackage{natbib}
> \usepackage{paralist}
> \usepackage{exaccent}
>
> \tolerance = 5000
> \hbadness = 10000
> \renewcommand{\notenumfont}{\footnotesize}
>
> \setlength{\skip\mpfootinsA}{7mm}
> \foottwocolX{A}
> \renewcommand*{\footfootmarkA}{\textnormal{\bfseries\footnotesize
> \thefootnoteA\hspace{2 mm}}}
> \newcommand{\variant}[1]{\footnoteA{{{\pahlavi {#1}}}}}
> \renewcommand{\footnoteruleA}{\vskip2.2ex}
> \noendnotes
> \DeclareTextCommand{\b}{\UTFencname}[1]{\loweraccent[0ex]{"02CD}{#1}}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \chapter{Text and Translation}
> \label{chap:tt}
> \section{Y 36.1}
>
> \onehalfspacing
> \textbf{(a)} \textit{All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of
> text. \\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort \\
> of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. \\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. \\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of
> text. }
>
> \bigskip
> \noindent All sort of text. All sort of text. \\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text,\\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of
> text. \\
> All sort of text. All sort of text. All sort of text. \\
> All sort of text.\\
>
> \doublespacing
> \begin{compactdesc}
> \begin{ledgroup}
> \item[(a)] ʾytwnˈ ʾnˈ\variant{ʾnˈ \textbf{D} Mf4 R413, K5 J2\\
> \hspace{3mm} ZK Y E7} HNʾ\variant{HNʾ \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5 J2\\
> \hspace{3mm} test R413} Y\variant{Y \textbf{D} Mf4 R413, J2\\
> \hspace{3mm} deest E7, K5} LK ʾthš pṯˈ wlcšnˈ\variant{wlcšnˈ Y Mf4\\
> \hspace{3mm} wlcšnˈ \textbf{D} R413 E7, K5 J2} pltwm BRʾ YHMTWN-m
> \variant{YHMTWN-m \textbf{D} Mf4 R413 E7, K5\\\hspace{3mm} test J2}
> ʾwhrmẕd \textlbrackdbl pṯˈ\variant{pṯˈ \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5 J2\\
> \hspace{3mm} deest R413} pʾhlyc\variant{pʾhlycˈ Mf4, J2 (p illegible)\\
> \hspace{3mm} pʾhlyc \textbf{D} R413 E7, K5} W šnʾdynytʾlyh
> \variant{šnʾdynytʾlyh \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5 J2\\\hspace{3mm} test
> R413}\textrbrackdbl
> \item[(b)] \textlbrackdbl pṯˈ HNʾ\variant{HNʾ \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5
> J2\\\hspace{3mm} test R413} Y\variant{Y \textbf{D} Mf4, K5\\
> \hspace{5.1mm} deest R413 E7, J2} LK\variant{LK \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5\\
> \hspace{5.1mm} test R413\\\hspace{5.1mm} test J2} gʾsʾnˈ\variant{gʾsʾn
> ˈ \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5 J2\\\hspace{5.1mm} test R413}\textrbrackdbl\ pṯ
> ˈ HNʾ Y\variant{Y \textbf{D} Mf4 R413 E7, K5\\\hspace{5.1mm} deest J2}
> LK\variant{LK \textbf{D} Mf4 R413 E7, K5\\\hspace{5.1mm} test J2} mynwg
> \variant{mynwg Y Mf4, J2 (superscr.)\\\hspace{5.1mm} test R413\\
> \hspace{5.1mm} mynwg \textbf{D} E7\\\hspace{5.1mm} mynwg W K5} ʾ
> \={p}zwnyk \textlbrackdbl cygwn MN\variant{MN \textbf{D} Mf4 E7, K5 J2\
> \\hspace{5.1mm} MNW R413} dynˈ pytʾk\textrbrackdbl\
> \end{ledgroup}
> \end{compactdesc}
>
> \begin{compactdesc}
> \item[(a)] Some other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some
> other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some
> other text.
> \item[(b)] Some other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some
> other text. Some other text. Some other text.
> \item[(c)] Some other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some
> other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some other text. Some
> other text. Some other text. Some other text.
> \end{compactdesc}
>
> \end{document}
Arash
> Sorry, Arash, I tried it but I don't use XeTeX and many other features
> you make use... but it seems to me that the problem doesn't concern
> ledmac. So, I would sugest you to open another post asking about how
> to control spaces and minipages. And, if you don't mind, I would tell
> you to avoid setspace.sty until you get it and try first fixed spaces
> (\kern command, but pay attention if it's in vertical mode!). Look,
> for instance inside setspace.sty the command \onehalfspacing:
>
> \newcommand{\onehalfspacing}{%
> \setstretch{1.25}% default
> \ifcase \@ptsize \relax % 10pt
> \setstretch {1.25}%
> \or % 11pt
> \setstretch {1.213}%
> \or % 12pt
> \setstretch {1.241}%
> \fi
>
> }
>
> It's for stretch the space!
>
> Goodluck,
>
> Jorge Sallum
Thanks Jorge! I switched to XeTeX because it offers a better Unicode
solution and it has been working very well for me. I will look into
setspace and also play a bit more with your other suggestion. There
must be a way to control minipages better.
Thanks again,
Arash