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Samewords
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*Word disambigutaion in critical text editions*

In critical textual editions notes in the critical apparatus are
normally made to the line where the words occur. This leads to ambiguous
references when a critical apparatus note refers to a word that occurs
more than once in a line. For example:

We have a passage of text here, such a nice place for a critical
note.

----
1 a] om. M

It is very unclear which of three instances of "a" the note refers to.

[Reledmac](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/reledmac) is a great LaTeX package
that facilitates typesetting critical editions of prime quality. It
already provides facilities for disambiguating identical words, but it
requires the creator of the critical text to mark all potential
instances of ambiguous references manually (see the *reledmac* handbook
for the details on that). *Samewords* automates this step for the
editor.

Install and usage
-----------------

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
pip3 install samewords
```

That's it!

This requires Python 3.6 installed in your system. For more details on
installation, see the [installation]{role="ref"} section.

Now call the script with the file you want annotated as the only
argument to get the annotated version back in the terminal.

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
samewords my-awesome-edition.tex
```

This will send the annotated version to `stdout`. To see that it
actually contains some `\sameword{}` macros, you can try running it
through `grep`:

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
samewords my-awesome-edition.tex | grep sameword
```

You can define a output location with the `--output` option:

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
samewords --output ~/Desktop/test/output my-awesome-edition.tex
```

This will check whether `~/Desktop/test/output` is a directory or a
file. If it is a directory, it will put the file inside that directory
(with the original name). If it is a file, it will ask you whether you
want to overwrite it. If it is neither a directory nor a file, it will
create the file `output` and write the content to that.

Alternatively regular unix redirecting will work just as well in a Unix
context:

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
samewords my-beautiful-edition.tex > ~/Desktop/test/output.tex
```

See more in the
[documentation](https://samewords.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).