This page allows users to select individual witnesses and presentation order, and present the result in a number of formats.
For the present, the function is only enabled for the initial demonstration text of Bava Metsi'a Chapter 2. As the corpus of texts expands, this functionality will be expanded as well.
Users select a specific passage ("Mishnah") using the drop down menus, use the selection list that follows to select witnesses,
and select the "Collate" button.
When the page reloads, output will be presented below the selection list. A number of output types are demonstrated:
Alignment table, in which each each witness is presented horizontally, and each token (word) is aligned with its corresponding element in
the other witnesses.
Text with Apparatus. The witness selected with the lowest selection number (typically 1) is the default base text. The apparatus coordinates
the collation output to the base text.
Parallel-Column Synopsis. Using the order from the selection list, this section of the output page presents the selected text in parallel columns.
Future versions will present the different output types on distinct pages.