When writing an article or book using the LaTeX document preparation system, Indologists sometimes want to have a śloka or two printed on the page with some text-critical notes. A famous example of this kind of layout is Wilhelm Rao's 1977 edition of the Vākyapadīya that edits the whole text this way, in each verse having its own mini-critical-edition format.
Here is a simple way to get this kind of layout in LaTeX. I create a new environment called "miniedition":
\newenvironment{miniedition}
{\begin{quote}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{-\rightmargin} % width of the quote env.
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\itshape
\let\footnoterule\relax}
{\end{minipage}
\end{quote}}
This puts a minipage environment inside a quote environment, switches on italics and switches off the footnote rule. It's pretty simple. The clever bit is done by the minipage environment itself, that makes footnotes inside its own box, not at the bottom of the page. The footnote numbers are lowercase alphabetical counters, to avoid confusion with footnotes outside the environment.
Here's how you would use it, and the result:
\begin{miniedition}
pāraṃparyād \emph{ṛte ’pi}\footnote{N: \emph{upataṃ}?} svayam
\emph{anubhavanād}\footnote{My conjecture; both manuscripts are one syllable
short. K:
\emph{anubhavad}; N: \emph{anubhavād}.} granthajārthasya samyak\\
pūrṇābdīyaṃ phalaṃ sadgrahagaṇitavidāṃ \emph{aṃhrireṇoḥ}\footnote{N:
\emph{aṅghri-},
with identical meaning.} \emph{prasādāt}\footnote{N: \emph{prasādaḥ}.}||
\end{miniedition}
Output (with added text before and after:
\begin{document}This will print your footnoted citations in ascending order of year, and your bibliography in ascending order of author.
\usepackage[sorting=ynt,sortcites=true]{biblatex}
\AtBeginDocument{\assignrefcontextentries[]{*}}
\begin{document}
Hello world!\footcites{ref1,ref3,ref0,ref4}
\newrefcontext[sorting=nyt]
\printbibliography
\end{document}
Here's an update, with some more fonts and more concise TeX code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\defaultfontfeatures{Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit}
\newfontfamily\eng{TeX Gyre Pagella}
% set up a font, print its name, and typeset the test text:
\newcommand{\FontTrial}[1]{ %
\setmainfont[Mapping=RomDev]{#1}
\renewfontfamily\eng{#1}
% print the font name:
{\eng #1} \TestText }
\newcommand{\TestText}{ = शक्ति, kārtsnyam ṣaṭtriṃśad;
{\addfontfeatures{Language=Hindi} Hindī =
शक्ति कार्त्स्न्यम्}\par}
\begin{document}
\FontTrial{FreeSerif}
\FontTrial{FreeSans}
\FontTrial{Sanskrit 2003}
\setmainfont[FakeStretch=1.08,Mapping=RomDev]{Sanskrit 2003}
\renewfontfamily\eng[FakeStretch=1.08,Language=English]{Sanskrit 2003}
{\eng Sanskrit 2003+} \TestText
\FontTrial{Nakula}
\FontTrial{Sahadeva}
\FontTrial{Murty Hindi}
\FontTrial{Murty Sanskrit}
\FontTrial{Shobhika}
% ... etcetera
\end{document}
Output:
Thus Principle Number One is Aristotelian: "Do not make your datum more accurate than it is. This principle may be rephrased as, "Preserve the Mess."
Relative size of numerals in tables.-- André says on this point: "In certain numerical tables, as those of
Schrön, all numerals are of the same height. In certain other tables, as those of Lalande, of Callet, of Houël, of Dupuis, they have unequal heights: the 7 and 9 are prolonged downward; 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 extend upward; while 1 and 2 do not reach above nor below the central body of the writing.... The unequal numerals, by their very inequality, render the long train of numerals easier to read; numerals of uniform height are less legible." (D. André, Des notations mathématiques (Paris, 1909), p .9).
export IBUS_ENABLE_SYNC_MODE=0Copy the file ibus-setting.sh to the directory /etc/profile.d/, like this:
sudo cp ibus-setting.sh /etc/profile.dMake the file executable, like this:
sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/ibus-setting.shLogout and login again.
January 2021. Since writing about Xindy below in 2016, a new indexing program has been released, Xindex by Herbert Voß. I now use xindex with this configuration file for IAST sorting. My preamble says
\usepackage[imakeidx]{xindex}
\makeindex[name=lexical,
title=Lexical Index,
columns=3,
options= -c iast -a -n, % nocasesensitive, noheadings
]
I sound out every line I write, imagining the reader reading it, and never imagining as the reader certain scholars, who shall remain nameless, who might be watching with an eagle eye, poised to pounce on any mistake I might make; no, I always imagine the reader as my father, on my side. I try to be that person to my students, who are otherwise vulnerable to an imaginaire of hostile reception that can block their writing, as it keeps some of my most brilliant colleagues from publishing. My father saved me from that.
-- Scroll.in "A Life of Learning"
Sophisticated geometry - the branch
of mathematics that deals with shapes - was being used at least 1,400
years earlier than previously thought, a study suggests.
Greater lack of cultural values than that found in the inner life of some strata of our modern population is hardly to be found anywhere.
