Creating a Steadman-style reader
Here’s some thoughts on creating a Steadman style reader, based on my experiences making the Batrachomyomachia reader with Bella: Have a set of common words you will not gloss everytime. We used TLG to generate that list, excluding words that appeared at least four times. Pick a page structure. You might choose facing page, with a set number of lines on the left page and vocab and notes on the right, or same page (like Pharr), with text, vocab, and notes on the same page. Same page is less elegant but gives more flexibility for the amount of notes. Work page by page. We had Word docs for each separate pair of pages, but you could probably do it in a single doc. A sample pair of pages are accessible here . Have a style guide and reach consensus on your style (e.g. λίχνος, η, ον or λίχνος, -η, -ον? Should notes end with a period?) Use a python script to create the vocab list. Clone this script , update the stop words as is appropriate, and copy and paste each page’s text into the text