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24 5 Verse\select@lemmafontby Plain TEX they are taken from a math font which does not have the en-dashor full stop in the same places as a text font. If you (or your macros) just typed$\oldstyle 12--34$ or $\oldstyle 55.6$ you would get ‘12↪↪34’and ‘55⊲6’. Sowe define \endashchar and \fullstop, which produce an en-dash and a full stoprespectively from the normal document font, whatever font you are using for thenumbers. These two macros are used in the macros which format the line numbersin the margins and footnotes, instead of explicit punctuation. We also define an\rbracket macro for the right square bracket printed at the end of the lemma inmany styles of textual notes (including eledmac’s standard style). For polyglossia,when the lemma is RTL, the bracket automatically switches to a left bracket.We will briefly discuss \select@lemmafont here because it is important toknow about it now, although it is not one of the macros you would expect tochange in the course of a simple job. Hence it is ‘protected’ by having the @-signin its name.When you use the \edtext macro to mark a word in your text as a lemma,that word will normally be printed again in your apparatus. If the word in thetext happens to be in a font such as italic or bold you would probably expect it toappear in the apparatus in the same font. This becomes an absolute necessity if thefont is actually a different script, such as Arabic or Cyrillic. \select@lemmafontdoes the work of decoding eledmac’s data about the fonts used to print the lemmain the main text and calling up those fonts for printing the lemma in the note.\select@lemmafont is a macro that takes one long argument—the clusterof line numbers passed to the note commands. This cluster ends with a codeindicating what fonts were in use at the start of the lemma. \select@lemmafontselects the appropriate font for the note using that font specifier.eledmac uses \select@lemmafont in a standard footnote format macro called\normalfootfmt. The footnote formats for each of the layers A to E are \letequal to \normalfootfmt. So all the layers of the footnotes are formatted in thesame way.4.6 Create a new seriesIf you need more than 5 series of critical footnotes you can create extra series, using\newseries command. For example to create G and H series \newseriesG,H.5 Verse\stanza\&In 1992 Wayne Sullivan 16 wrote the EDSTANZA macros [Sul92] for typesetting versein a critical edition. More specifically they were for handling poetry stanzas whichuse indentation to indicate rhyme or metre.With Wayne Sullivan’s permission the majority of this section has been takenfrom [Sul92]. Peter has made a few changes to enable his macros to be used inthe LaTeX ledmac, and now in eledmac. package.Use \stanza at the start of a stanza. Each line in a stanza is ended by an16 Department of Mathematics, University College, Dublin 4, Ireland