Hi and first of all sorry if I'm asking (stupid) questions being asked several times before.
I'm about to make a critical edition with reledmac. Its a Greek-German edition (original text and translation on facing pages) with some tricky footnote stuff:
First, there has to be an apparatus, which appears on both sides, with "numbering" from a,..,z,aa,…zz,…. This apparatus has to restart after each pair of facing pages. It has to be mentioned only on the left (Greek) side with the Greek version.
Then there is a critical apparatus, also only on the side with the Greek version.
Last but not least, there has to be an apparatus with footnotes, starting from 1,…,999. The footnotes have to be in both versions of the text, original and translation. The footnote-text has to be a continuing one over both pages.
So my main problem is how to set up the notes and modify them to make it possible to change their style from line numbers to numbers and single letters.
I would be very grateful if someone of you can help me (total super-noob) and Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
You ask for many questions in the same question, which all of these answer are detailled on the handbook and in the example joined https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac.
Here a MWE of facing page
If you want to restart lineation at each page, use
To make a critical footnote, do
To make a familiar footnote, without lemma but with a footnotemark, do
As you use familiar footnote on both side, you should do multiple run to get the correct number. In general, with reledmac/reledpar, it is better to use tools like latexmk wich automatically does multiple runs for you.
But, in general, it is also better to read the handbook…