Is anyone aware about a ledmac substitute for Typst?
It seems that nobody has created such a package so far, and this might be a deal breaker for me and quite a few academics who may want to use Typst for a critical edition.
I would also appreciate advice on finding ways around this.
Edit to clarify:
ledmac allows you to create a critical apparatus for critical editions of literary texts recording variant readings. You can find an illustration here and the most recent version, called reledmac, here.
The idea is that you need to have multiple footnote footers and a way to tag words inside the main text and list variants. For instance:
1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
2 Etiam dictum sapien augue, eu imperdiet mauris accumsan in.
3 Quisque leo mauris, placerat id felis in, congue pretium dolor.
I would want to tag ‘ipsum’ and show ‘ipsum’ in a footnote followed by ‘ipsius’ and ‘ipse’ as variant readings along with the line number in which ‘ipsum’ occurs and the manuscripts that record that reading (here called A, B, C and D), that is,
1 ipsum ] C; ipsius A, B; ipse D
This means: on line 1, I have chosen (which is the ]) the reading ‘ipsum’ found in manuscript C, but I let you know that there is also a reading ‘ipsius’ found in manuscripts A and B and a reading ‘ipse’ found in manuscript D.
