Overview

TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox is “a tool for people preparing a natively digital TEI critical edition.”

http://teicat.huma-num.fr/index.php

In addition to providing functionality for visualizing critical apparatus information, it offers several other useful features.

Among these, I learned that it has a “TEI to LaTeX and PDF conversion” feature, so I decided to try it out.

Print an edition

Access the following URL.

http://teicat.huma-num.fr/print.php

Click the link with the text this dummy edition file to download the following sample data.

http://teicat.huma-num.fr/print-feature-test-file.xml

Upload the above file to this tool. Various conversion options are available, but leaving the default settings as they are, click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the screen.

A zip file will be downloaded. A folder called myEdition will be extracted, containing three files: .log, .pdf, and .tex.

Here is an example of the PDF:

Here is an example of the TEX:

Note

As of April 2023, the above feature did not work well with XML files containing Japanese text. I would like to look into improving this in the future.

Summary

I hope this serves as a useful reference when considering conversion tools and workflows for TEI/XML files.