As a followup to my recent Varia post, I’d like to explain two programs that I used recently in my Textual Criticism class: Juxta and CTE. To do so, I’ll run through how the final product came together from start to finish. Our goals were traditional: we wanted to use Lachmanian methods to create a stemma…
This post contains a walkthrough for creating a simple critical edition in the Classical Text Editor (CTE). For my example, I’ve chosen a text that I’m reading at the moment, Demosthenes’ Philippic I. I’ve reproduced much of the information for the first three sections of Dilts’ edition [1]. His edition includes the Greek text, and…
Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and to annotate Juxta-revealed comparisons and save the results.
P. Robinson. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: First and Second International Symposia Rocquencourt, France, October 29-31, 2007 Providence, RI, USA, May 15-17, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Seite 346. (2009)