Critical Apparatus - Horizontal Footnotes

[Clint Hackenburg]

Hello,

I am preparing a critical edition of a text and the critical apparatus is taking up a considerable amount of space on each page of my document. I was wondering if anyone knew how to format footnotes so that they appear horizontally, not vertically. I have Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, and Mellel. If anyone knows how to format this on one of these processors that would be great. If this is not possible on these word processors, does anyone know a word processor that does allow horizontal footnotes? 

Many thanks, 

Clint

[Davide Righi]

Dear Clint,

the only processor I know that allow horizontal footnotes is CTE (Classical Text Editor).

I don't know Apple Pages and Mellel. In Word 2013, 2016, 2019 or 2021 (LTSC), nowadays, is impossible.

Davide Righi

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[Florian Jäckel]

Dear Clint,

It's not an editor in the sense that "What you see is what you get", but you could use the reledmac package for LaTeX: https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive /macros/latex/contrib/reledmac. I have used it with XeLaTeX (with allows for regular fonts) using the Meltho fonts for Syriac and Amiri for Arabic. Among critical footnotes in one, two, or three columns, it allows for all footnotes of one apparatus (reledmac allows for multiple apparatus) to be in one paragraph instead of multiple lines. In addition to the critical footnotes, i.e. reference to the main text by line and word, "regular" footnotes can be placed with footnote marks in both text and apparatus.

If you plan to use it more often, it might be worth the effort to get used to the inner workings of LaTeX with reledmac. Also, be aware that running (Xe)LaTeX produces a pdf. If you plan to publish your results with a publishing house that would usually set and format your Word file, it might be better to talk to them beforehand. Other than that, the results are very nice and the software is free (both as in free coffee and free speach).

Best,

Florian

Am 28.02.22 um 00:07 schrieb Clint Hackenburg:

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[roger akhrass]

Dear Clint,

If you like to make all your work in Word, you can after completing all the footnotes of the apparatus, convert them to endnotes then copy them to a new document.

There, they become as a text. You will have to renumber their superscript (because when copied, they are all numbered as 1) in order to have the exact number of endnotes.  

After that, you include the footnotes manually beneath your text, page per page.

 

Yours,

 

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