Overview

ekdosis is a LuaLaTeX package designed for multilingual critical editions. It can be used to typeset texts and different layers of critical notes in any direction accepted by LuaTeX. Texts can be arranged in running paragraphs or on facing pages, in any number of columns which in turn can be synchronized or not. In addition to printed texts, ekdosis can convert .tex source files so as to produce TEI xml-compliant critical editions. Database-driven encoding under LaTeX then allows extraction of texts entered segment by segment according to various criteria: main edited text, variant readings, translations or annotated borrowings between texts. It is published under the terms of the OpenBSD license.

License and Disclamer

ekdosis – Typesetting TEI xml-Compliant Critical Editions

Copyright ⓒ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Robert Alessi alessi@robertalessi.net

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Please send error reports and suggestions for improvements to Robert Alessi:

This release of ekdosis consists of the following source files:

Installation

  1. Run 'latex ekdosis.ins' to produce the ekdosis.sty and ekdosis.lua files.

  2. To finish the installation you have to move the ekdosis.sty and ekdosis.lua files into a directory where LaTeX can find them. See the FAQ on texfaq.org at https://texfaq.org/FAQ-inst-wlcf for more on this.

Development, Git Repository

Browse the Code

You can browse ekdosis repository on the web: http://git.robertalessi.net/ekdosis

From this page, you can download all the releases of ekdosis. For instructions on how to install ekdosis, please see above.

Comments, Feature Requests, Bug Reports

http://www.ekdosis.org/issues.html

Download the Repository

ekdosis development is facilitated by git, a distributed version control system. You will need to install git (most Unix/Linux distributions package it in their repositories).

Use this command to download the repository

git clone http://git.robertalessi.net/ekdosis

or

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/ekdosis

A new directory named ekdosis will have been created, containing ekdosis.

Git Hosting

Make an account on https://sr.ht and navigate (while logged in) to https://git.sr.ht/~ralessi/ekdosis. Click Clone repo to your account and you will have in your account your own repository of ekdosis where you will be able to make whatever changes you like to.