<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>At risk of open criticism, I am just going to post my questions since I'm not getting anywhere on a personal project. I'm presuming that (Xe)LaTeX is a good tool for this. </div><div>I want to typeset single column Bible text with numbered footnotes in two columns. I would first like to try this with Latin characters (e.g. in German or English) before attempting something more complex. </div><div><br></div><div>To save time, quite frankly, here is an example of the kind of layout I am after:</div><div><a href="http://www.hendrickson.com/pdf/chapters/9781598562859-ch01.pdf">http://www.hendrickson.com/pdf/chapters/9781598562859-ch01.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Main Text</span></div><div><i>Chapter numbering</i>: I've looked at Dirk-Jan Dekker's (<a href="http://www.djdekker.net/ledmac/">http://www.djdekker.net/ledmac/</a>) site for help on versification, but I don't know how I would produce the chapter numbers as in the example above. </div><div><i>Verse numbering</i>: I can get versification, but am unsure if Dirk-Jan Dekker's method is the best for the job. On this note, I tried inserting ~ for a non-breaking space after a verse number and the text beginning, but still get linebreaks after the verse number. </div><div><i>Chapter & verse ranges in a header </i>(I'll use fancyhdr I presume though this will tricky with chapt & verse I would imagine)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Footnotes</b></div><div>I've been manipulating ledmac, and can I can get critical notes \edtext{}\Afootnotes{} to appear in columns, but what I'd really like is to have the regular footnotes in two columns. In the example above, the footnote numbering begins with 1 at a page break. Section 22.6 shows how to define for critical notes, but I don't see how to define for regular \footnote that would appear in two columns. </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has examples of something close to this I would love to see it. </div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><div><br></div><div>PS I do have a very klugey .tex file (attached) that reflects some of what I'm trying out. </div><div></div></body></html>