[OS X TeX] Typesetting classical Arabic commentary

[William F. Adams]

On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 04:38  AM, Musa Furber wrote:

> A typical Arabic commentary is of the format
> 	(A) abcdef (B) abcdef ...
> where the primary text is printed within parenthesis and the 
> commentary without.
>
> It is common to have the primary text printed alone in the margin and 
> the commentary (along with the primary text) within the main text 
> block.
>
> I looked at LEDMAC. From what I can tell, I could use LEDMAC for this 
> if I can turn off line numbering, footnote reference numbers, and 
> print the entire basic text (chunk by chunk) in the lemas.

Oh.

What's not working about using marginpars?

Hmm, the Memoir class has a ``sidebar'' which fills from top to bottom 
--- have you tried that?

Should the text in the margin be continuous? How should paragraphs be 
inserted?

If you could post a small text sample which exhibits some of the 
special cases it should be possible to work something up (though I 
really think ledmac should be customizable enough).

William

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