Re: line synchronization in reledpar

Adam, hello.

On 13 Feb 2025, at 23:23, Adam Bremer-McCollum wrote:

> I'm using reledmac and reledpar to typeset a Syriac poem with critical
> apparatus and a translation on facing pages. The poem is 105 lines, and the
> Syriac lines are all just one line long, while the English lines are
> sometimes longer. I would like the lines on facing pages to match exactly –
> that is, in Syriac on the left should match the English lines on the right
> – but no matter what I do, they don't agree. It's not a stanzaic poem, so I
> just have one \astanza group, but even if I divide it into several, that
> doesn't help. Changing \setgoalfraction has not helped, either. The MWE
> below includes the first 35 lines, which demonstrates the problem(s).

I don't have a very specific suggestion for you, but I had a similar problem some while ago (technically, rather than philologically, similar, I'm afraid) and it turned into a package versonotes [1], which manages the specific task of, given notes on a recto page, placing them at the corresponding position on a verso page.

I make this suggestion with some diffidence, since I don't know whether edmac can already do this, and if it can't, how well versonotes would interact with edmac.  But this might be a Plan B or C.

Hmm: that said, a goal of the package was that it would carefully _not_ space out the recto page to match the verso notes, which I see is what you're aiming for here.  So perhaps Plan D or E, then....

Best wishes,

Norman


[1] https://www.ctan.org/pkg/versonotes

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