Re: typesetting schemas in LaTeX

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:43:02 -0700, jon wrote:

On Sep 25, 12:46 pm, "Charles P. Schaum"
<verbo.s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have further simplified the entry of Ramistic schemas pertinent to
scholasticism and medieaeval classification. New features include:

this is very interesting.

The outstanding issues remaining are:

i wonder if pgf/tikz might be another way to go for all this. (though
this would mean re-doing everything, which would not be fun at all, i
suspect.)

i tested out your file just to see what it looked like. (pretty neat, i
thought.) when i read through it, i noticed a couple typos:

schema 2:
poenitentia agens ---> i assume: poenitentiam agens (more commonly
'paenitentiam')
politicae & oeconomicae ---> the 'oe' is not written as a ligature here
(like it is everywhere else)

schema 3:
ab aeterno procedete ---> i assume: ab aeterno procedere beneficiis erga
ecclesia ---> the macron over the final 'a' is meant to represent the
missing 'm' ('erga' governs the accusative case), so i guess it's not
strictly necessary to put in the m, but it will make it easier to read
for those not familiar with latin palaeography evangelij ---> not a typo
obviously, but 'evangelii' is more normal (otherwise why not write 'j'
for every doubled 'i'?)

last schema:
rectè --> the accent was often used by early printers to mark adverbs;
strictly speaking it isn't necessary (unless, as i suspect, you're
trying to mimic the feel of an early printed page....) and just out of
curiousity, why do the initial categories start in all different cases?

anyway, thanks for this. i can see it coming in handy some day.

cheers,
jon.

You figured it out - I was basically going verbatim from the seventeenth-
century source, warts and all. The ligatures were inconsistent, the
abbreviations were not always indicated (out of sorts!) and the idea was
to try and put a puzzle together with blocks of type.

I would definitely move toward modern standards in a publication. The
ligature use is inconsistent, the adverbial accents and other issues also
might throw off the student. I took a palaeography course this past July
and now I am interested in possibly using XeTeX with cardo or code2001
and similar fonts to get also the scribal abbreviations.

Thanks for commenting on the Latin. If you can do Latin (and/or German)
well, I or a colleague of mine might interest you in a work-for-hire
offer. I edit theology books and need people with good sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century skills. If interested, please email me without the
nospam.

Charles
.

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