I just want to come up with a rather general question regarding eledmac
and typesetting verse. I am experimenting with that issue since while, but I wonder whether there is really a simple way to handle verse in eledmac
. I want to typeset a critical edition of a text that is basically a mixture of prose and verse and I have serious problems to control the vertical space between the prose sections and the stanzas inbetween, or the space between a section of several verses. If I use the quotation
environment, the space between the stanzas is too big or the line numbers and the text happen to be disarranged. Does anyone have experience with that? Other packages such as ednotes
are far more tolerant in this regard, but have other general disadvantages wherefore I would like to stick to eledmac
.
Edit (Wang Junqi)
This is to add MWE. I met almost the same problem with you. eledmac
works pretty well in a file only consisting of proses. But in a mixture of verses and proses, line number is always disarranged and wrong. Sometimes as you said, the space between stanzas is too big or too small. I think it's a bug of eledmac
.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
\newfontfamily\sanskritfont{Times New Roman}
\usepackage{eledmac}
\lineation{page}
\sidenotemargin{left}
\linenummargin{right}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
++++ contents
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{document}
The result is as follows:
The line with number 30 should be line 31.
In quote 45, the space between stanzas is too big or small.
It's obvious that the place of line number 15 is wrong.
eledmac
. However, and I mean no offence by this, you have not really asked a question that can be answered (yet), only raised a vague complaint that is difficult to address without a minimal example (or see here). Can you provide a real example of the problem(s) you would like fixed? Changing vertical spacing between environments is normally trivial, but all the extra thingseledmac
either does or might need to worry about can sometimes make things tricky....