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Currently, the XTZ Pager implements a 'Note elements' editing pattern that:

• increments the note call number to be able to have multiple notes per page
• inserts the note call number at a position in the full text
• formats the note content in a dedicated footnotes page zone
• all the notes of a page are stacked in the footnotes zone
• the notes content is not indexed

For the Leviathan text marginalia editing style this is not pertinent because:

• there are no marginalia call number in the full text
• the marginalia content should be edited in the margin at the level of the marginalia call
• the marginalia content is not indexed

Solution¶

• add a 'Marginalia elements' pattern to the import module and parameters form
• implement the following marginalia pattern:
  • reserve a left margin to edit marginalia
  • the marginalia content must be formated in the margin at the (vertical) level of the sentence/words/characters at which the note element is encoded
  • no marginalia call is inserted in the full text
  • the marginalia content is indexed

Solution 2¶

Several extensions can be specified and developed later:

• [edition] option to parameterize the side of the margins (left/right) or to use both depending on even or odd page numbers
• [edition] option to insert a marginalia/note call in the full text or not
• possibility to distinguish between different sets of notes (eg author, scientific editor #1, scientific editor #2, etc.)
• option to index marginalia/note content or not
• option to separate the different marginalia/notes as textual planes with individual index to be able to query them independently
  • an implementation could:
    • shift the words of each marginalia/notes textual plane after the base text body or previous marginalia/notes textual plane
    • connect the words from those planes to the corresponding words in the [edition] pages
    • use predefined sub-corpora to manage the different indexed textual planes (base text, notes of author, notes of scientific editor #1, notes of scientific editor #2, marginalia, etc.)
• [edition] option to cluster notes per section
• [edition] option to edit notes at the end of section
• etc. see for example all the possible notes editing patterns of LaTeX