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{eledmac} is a package for typesetting scholarly critical editions.

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How to Adjust the Gap Between 2-Columned Footnotes Using Eledmac

Some time ago, a question was posed as to how to split two-columned footnotes across pages, suggesting use of the package eledmac: eledmac and two column footnotes User lockstep posted the following (...
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Reledpar Endnotes Issue

this is my very first question, so be patient... :) I tried to customize the Endnotes in Reledpar (it sould be the same in [r]eledmac), to get the number of pstart printed after the page and before ...
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Comfortable solution for using ulem together with (r)eledmac

Preface: Sorry for the long text. By writing it, I was able to solve an earlier problem leading to this one. In Underlining with ulem package breaks footnotes Ulrike Fischer and Heiko Oberdiek answer ...
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Different texts on even and odd pages

I'm having issues with even and odd pages. Namely I want different languages to be on left and right pages. Upon finding this answer: Syncing text on bilingual pages I've tried doing something similar,...
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Best setting Reledpar, Reledmac

this is my first use of Latex (MiKTeX distribution). Should I set a book poetry with parallel text in dialect and left translation on the right. There will be many footnotes. I am very happy the first ...
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reledmac: \footnoteX within \edtext

I have a problem with footnotes within the edtext of the reledmac package. The footnoteA in the edtext{ quidem} is fine as is. \documentclass[paper=a5,fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage[normalem]{...
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Text on the right hand side column overflows to adjacent column

I need to have a parallel column layout with Hebrew on the left and Greek on the right. Within the test I need to add footnotes. However adding footnotes causes a disruption on the column layout ...
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Double spacing in body but not two-column footnotes with eledmac package

With two-column footnotes using eledmac (based on this question), line spacing via setspace is applied to footnotes as well. How can I preserve single spacing in these two-column footnotes? \...
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! No room for a new \skip

I just did a new TeX Live install on another machine, but my project doesn't compile: (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ms/everysel.sty)) ! No room for a new \skip . \ch@ck ...\else \...
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eledmac problem: "linespread" and space between familiar footnotes

With eledmac, how can I increase the space between familiar footnotes in two columns and reduce the "linespread" inside the footnotes? In the image, the footnotes 6, 23 and 33 look odd (more distance ...
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Facing pages : giving space to the right page by using left to right footnotes

I'm using eledmac/eledpar for a bilingual edition with facing pages, and would like to use more space on the left page than on the right one for the footnotes. \footnoteXmk allow me to start on the ...
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Custom line numbering and using letters in the `\linenum` argument

I am making a document with eledmac in which there is one paragraph in prose followed by some text in verse. I need to have a different format for the apparatus for the prose and for the verse. For ...
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Adjusting vertical alignment of sidenotes in Eledmac

I am using Eledmac to typeset a lengthy document which contains sidenotes. The body of the document is to be double-spaced, but I want the sidenotes to be single-spaced and in a smaller point size (\...
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Setting line spacing in Eledmac sidenotes

In Eledmac (or Reledmac), is it possible to set the line spacing of sidenotes by inserting a command in the preamble? My project is doublespaced in the main text, but I would like the sidenotes to be ...
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Package conflict eledmac manyfoot?

I have a few files using different setups for their footnotes/critical apparatus. Now I am looking into the feasibility of glueing them together using docmute. So far it went surprisingly well, or at ...
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eledmac and quote without right indentation

I changed the definition of the quote environment to not indent on the right side. But this change doesn't work between \pstart and \pend of eledmac. How would I do that? I tried by redefing the \...
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Version dependent package conflict

For testing purposes I am using a recent version of minted (from TeX Live 2015) with TeX Live 2014, containing also the 2014 version of eledmac. Between the two packages in these two versions there is ...
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Labelling footnotes with stanza and line number in reledmac

I'm trying to evaluate the feasibility of moving an older project which I had begun still using ledmac to reledmac. One crucial requirement is the labelling of footnotes with stanza and line number, ...
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Multiple series of endnotes not working on different places

i try to edit two seperate books in one volume. The corrections to the text should follow immediately after the text, the notes for all books at the very end. Unfortunately this MWE is not working, ...
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How do I make a RTL footnote in eledmac in the paragraph-style?

In a previous question, Salim Bou helpfully provided a solution to getting RTL footnote rules in eledmac. Building on this, I wish to ask now to typeset a critical apparatus series as one paragraph. ...
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How do I make a footnote rule RTL in eledmac?

In eledmac, how do I get the the footnote rule to be RTL, i.e. to begin at the right margin, as opposed to the left? I am using polyglossia and the bidi packages with Memoir, and eledmac for its ...
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\paragraph{} sectioning with eledmac/eledpar

Maybe just a short question: In a layout with parallel pages using eledpar and eledmac I try to use the \paragraph sectioning command (and KOMA-Script), which causes the layout going off perfect sync. ...
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Overflowing apparatus in eledpar (changing \goalfraction within a pages environment)

I have a question regarding the usage of the \goalfraction command of the eledpar package. By default the value of 0.9 works great, but on few pages the apparatus text flows over the bottom of the ...
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\part command before facing pages

Currently I'm typesetting a book where I want to you the \part*{} sectioning command to separate a preface from a text edition that uses faceing pages (eledmac/eledpar). The problem is that I get two ...
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\Xendlemmaseparator from eledmac produces "undefined control sequence". What is wrong? [closed]

as per title: everything else I do with the eledmac package works fine. The manual says that \lemmaseparator can be used to change the separator used in footnotes, and \Xendlemmaseparator accordingly ...
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Error when compiling with Tex Live 2015: eledmac package

I've just recently upgraded to Tex Live 2015 and I have several files using eledmac package. With the new distribution I get this error in my .log file: /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/...
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a problem with vertical spacing in bidipoem traditional poem and eledmac

I'm making my first attempt to typeset an Arabic poem in two columns using bidipoem in eledmac. All is going well--except I cannot adjust the vertical space between the lines without messing ...
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eledmac stanza for titlepage

hello world, one question regarding the Stanza-feature of eledmac. If i try to set a titlepage, were i have to reference more than one line, i can't use separate \pstart and \pend for each line. So I ...
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Apparatus for Arabic edition using Eledmac: problem in lemma direction

I'm trying to do an edition of an Arabic text using Eledmac. The lemma in the text gets put back to front in the apparatus (specifically, the first two words in the upper apparatus). \documentclass{...
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What is \section and itemize doing to the penalty system? (problem with eledmac column balancing)

I still have a strange problem with column balancing in eledmac.sty two column footnotes. But I have a new MWE, possibly showing that this might not be a problem specific to eledmac (this is why I ...
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Disambiguation of nested notes in eledmac

In relation to the recent \sameword-feature in eledmac, what do I do when samewords are nested like this: \beginnumbering \pstart \edtext{in \edtext{\sameword{parte}}{\Bfootnote{partibus \textbf{A}.}...
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eledmac two column footnote balancing

I wonder how to influence the column balancing algorithm eledmac.sty is using for twocol footnotes (which is, as far as I understand, the \rigidbalance command from The TeXbook p 398. In the ...
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I can't latex the eledmac.ins and eledpar.ins

When I try to run latex on eledmac.ins I get an error saying that 'Log File not found', although in the directory a log is created with the name texput.log with the following info: This is pdfTeX, ...
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eledmac/eledpar How to determine page number?

Maybe this is a simple question. But how do I use the pagenumber in parallel pages text typesetted with eledpar? Using \thepage yields always page number 1, see this MWE: \documentclass{scrartcl} \...
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eledmac/eledpar having one footnote series per \pstart...\pend

I'm using eledmac/eledpar for a critical edition. I am using paragraphed critical footnotes. I need the footnotes of each \pstart ... \pend to be printed in a separate block (separated with a line ...
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How to format eledmac’s two-column footnotes

After karlkoeller cam up with a solution for How to allow page breaks within footnotes, when using dblfnote? I really like to use it but unfortunately the styling of the footnotes isn’t flexible ...
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Change parskip in eledmac

When I try to adjust parskip in eledmac, it only takes effect when the paragraph starts with a label. For example: %!TEX TS-program = xelatex \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{libertine} \...
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eledmac et seq (f., ff.) and footnote without lemma

I needed to implement to "hacks" into eledmac as I have to follow a pre-existing layout. I came up with a solution, where I want a critical oversight, as I'm certain that it is an ugly one, as you can ...
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eledmac parallel pages: \numberlinefalse to disable line numbers stops working after one page

I'm typesetting on parallel pages using eledmac and eledpar. I want line numbers only on the left page. So I'm using \pstart[\nuberlinefalse] for every \pstart on the right side. However, the line ...
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eledmac \boxlinenum and \numberonlyfirstinline

I need to follow a pre-existing layout, which went smoothly so far. Only a few questions are still open. One is: I use boxlinenum to put a box around the linenumber. but if the linenumber is repeated ...
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eledmac/eledpar/LuaTeX: right alignment of RTL text paragraphs in pages enviroment

I have a LuaTex + eledmac + eledpar setup for critical editions in syriac and english (on facing pages). Strangely, the syriac text, which is running RTL, is not aligned on the right, but on the left ...
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How to obtain absolutely fixed line spacing

I use Xetex with eledmac and eledpar to produce a bilingual document with facing pages. I add some endnotes only inside the even pages. I have a problem with corresponding paragraphs (one on the left ...
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Apparent conflict between eledmac/eledpar and the environment equation*

I want to make a bilingual book with parallel pages containing equations. I use XeTeX with eledpar, eledmac, and amsmath. My problem is about a strange behavior of the alignment of equations inside ...
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"Select lemma font" error when using eledmac with Devanagari package

I am making a critical edition of a Sanskrit text in Devanagari script using eledmac and the "devanagari" package. Something about the Devanagari package messes with eledmac, and I get an error that ...
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Eledmac: hyperlink to table of contents generates additional pages [closed]

I'm writing a critical edition that includes a link to the table of contents on each page. When I do this in eledmac, additional pages appear in the vicinity of the table: \documentclass{book} \...
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Make eledmac footnotes available in tabular environment

Is there a way to make eledmac footnotes available in tabular environments? The \savenotes and \makesavenoteenv commands from footnote.sty don't work here anymore. In the following MWE, footnotes ...
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Possible conflict between eledmac-eledpar and the BibLaTeX footnote-dw style (biblatex-dw package)

In the MWE below I'm trying to typeset a citation embedded in a footnote with the BibLaTeX style footnote-dw. All's well if I do not load the package eledmac. As soon as I do, the citation within the ...
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eledmac: facing pages with glossed text using covington.sty

What I'm trying to do: I am attempting to create a document using eledmac/eledpar with facing pages. The left page contains a glossed text using covington.sty and the right page contains a prose ...
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Eledmac reference lemma with word rank

Honestly, I don't understand how to use the subline numbering feature. I would expect to be able to refer to the first of two identical words in the lemma of the apparatus. For example: Tertia est ...
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running number/counter (e.g. {244}{a}) for a text

To assign a running counter to parts (not paragraphs, not lines) of a document with facing greek text and translation (finally I will use eledpar) I need a command (call it \Steph) which 1a) inserts a ...