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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oops - the drop capital I gave in my response will
open up the interlinear space unless you smash it, and you will probably need to
push it down manually. So instead of just \copy0 in the bit of code
I sent you would want e.g.:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>\smash{\lower \baselineskip
\hbox{\copy0}}</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If \lower \baselineskip doesn't give quite the
right positioning then use e.g. \lower 12pt (and tinker with that value until it
looks just right). As I said, drop caps can be tricky since you need to
end up with something that looks just right visually in the typeface you are
using.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All of this is plain TeX-oriented of course.
Some of it might not work in LaTeX (and there are probably LaTeX packages that
will do most or all of this donkey work behind the scenes for you).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tthackery@gmail.com href="mailto:tthackery@gmail.com">Thomas
Thackery</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:05
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [XeTeX] Typesetting a
Bible</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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>
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<P></P>At risk of open criticism, I am just going to post my questions
since <BR>I'm not getting anywhere on a personal project. I'm
presuming that <BR>(Xe)LaTeX is a good tool for this.<BR>I want to
typeset single column Bible text with numbered footnotes in <BR>two
columns. I would first like to try this with Latin characters
<BR>(e.g. in German or English) before attempting something more
complex.<BR><BR>To save time, quite frankly, here is an example of the kind of
layout <BR>I am
after:<BR>http://www.hendrickson.com/pdf/chapters/9781598562859-ch01.pdf<BR><BR><BR>Main
Text<BR>Chapter numbering: I've looked at Dirk-Jan Dekker's
(http://www.djdekker.net/ledmac/ <BR>) site for help on versification, but I
don't know how I would produce <BR>the chapter numbers as in the example
above.<BR>Verse numbering: I can get versification, but am unsure if
Dirk-Jan <BR>Dekker's method is the best for the job. On
this note, I tried <BR>inserting ~ for a non-breaking space after a
verse number and the text <BR>beginning, but still get linebreaks after
the verse number.<BR>Chapter & verse ranges in a header (I'll use fancyhdr
I presume though <BR>this will tricky with chapt & verse I would
imagine)<BR><BR>Footnotes<BR>I've been manipulating ledmac, and can I can get
critical notes <BR>\edtext{}\Afootnotes{} to appear in columns, but what
I'd really like <BR>is to have the regular footnotes in two columns. In
the example above, <BR>the footnote numbering begins with 1 at a page
break. Section 22.6 <BR>shows how to define for critical notes,
but I don't see how to define <BR>for regular \footnote that would
appear in two columns.<BR><BR>If anyone has examples of something close to
this I would love to see <BR>it.<BR><BR>Thomas<BR><BR>PS I do have a
very klugey .tex file (attached) that reflects some of <BR>what I'm
trying out.<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>