[XeTeX] Help with Yiddish and ledmac/ledpar

[Nathan Sidoli]

I've never dealt with Yiddish, but I've worked with a bit of edited 
Hebrew, so this response may be of some use.

If you are using Xe(La)TeX, then you will have to use the arabxetex 
package, if you want to do ASCII input. But, as far as I know, arabxetex 
does not support Hebrew characters.

Your better option is to just use unicode input and something like 
polyglossia, etc.

I have edited texts with Arabic and some Hebrew characters in the notes 
(because one of the manuscripts was Arabic written in the Jewish script) 
using ednotes. I found this is a fairly flexible package that can do 
everything I need it to do (including multiple layers of notes, etc.). 
The documentation for this package, however, is fairly poor.

The one issue that you may have is that switching between unicode input 
of RL and LR character sets can be tricky and it makes it almost 
impossible to do edit commands as usual.

Best,

Nathan


On 12/09/24 0:58, Ricarda Scherschel wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new to this list and I hope I won't be asking to much.
>
> I am supposed to format a Yiddish play in Hebrew script and its German 
> translation on two facing pages. That's why I decided to use xetex 
> with ledmac and ledpar. Unfortunately, I encounter problems I cannot 
> figure out myself.
>
> So, I need two levels of footnotes. One for a few footnotes the 
> Yiddish author put into the play in right to left writing. Thus the 
> numbering of the footnote should be on the right as well as the 
> footnoterule. The other level of footnotes should be the apparatus 
> with comments on certain words or phrases.
>
> For now, I cannot get the \edtext... to work which has to do, I 
> think,  with the right to left script. However, the arabtex-package 
> that should solve this doesn't work with ledpar.
>
> So I tried to just use "normal" footnotes this, however, conflicts 
> with the linenumbering and Idon't know of another way to put in 
> linenumbers than with the lineno package and linelabel/ lineref.
>
> If there's someone who has any suggestions, please let me know! I 
> attached an example file with a couple of lines for an impression.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ricarda
>
>
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