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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…)

[tags]Book of Mormon, Royal Skousen, Vul­gate, Latin, Minion, Myriad, InDesign[/tags]