In principio erat verbum
Today in my History of the Book class we talked about textual criticism, particularly that of the Book of Mormon (my professor, Royal Skousen, is the one doing the critical text of the Book of Mormon). I’d expected it to be dry and boring, but to my surprise I found it quite fascinating. Definitely something I’m going to have to look more into. (Part of my interest has to do with Riverglen Press and its future — I’d love to do editions of texts which I’ve actually edited, in a scholarly manner. 
) And now I find myself with a desire to make a learner’s edition of the Latin Vulgate (which would work in perfectly with my class next fall). The Vulgate’s got to be public domain, but the trick is finding a public domain text of it (preferably without having to type it all in by hand, but I’ve done that before and I’ll do it again).
As for Riverglen Press, I’m going to see if I can copy the fonts I use (Minion, Myriad, etc.) to my flash drive and temporarily install them on these Macs when I use InDesign. In theory it should work, and if it does, I can start working on texts immediately. (And if it doesn’t, then when we get the iMac at work, I can come in before or after hours and use that. If I get InDesign installed on it, that is…)
