How about adding the PTS Pali edition?

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I think it would be very useful to add the PTS (Pali Text Society) edition to SuttaCentral.

Currently, the PTS editions have been fully digitized and are publicly available at the link below. I would appreciate it if you could consider adding them to the site. ()

Link: https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html#Suttapit

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Are there specific textual variants we’re missing? I believe we do include PTS readings as variants where they differ from the sixth counsel edition…

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I understand that you currently provide the variations between other versions and the Mahāsaṅgīti edition. However, I suggested this because I thought it would be very convenient for users if multiple Pāli editions, including the Mahāsaṅgīti, were provided together. ()

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How would it be more convenient? If the information is already noted, what good would it do to have a completely separate text that you would have to visually compare for differences.

In any case, although the codebase on SuttaCentral can accommodate multiple versions of root texts, the PTS editions, at least the freely available ones, are only of interest really for recent historical purposes. They don’t represent a specific textual tradition as they themselves are a mixture of manuscripts.

Moreover, the labor to code even an existing digital edition would be gargantuan.

For anyone who needs to see those texts side by side with the work on SuttaCentral, now all the major browsers (except Safari?) have the ability to position two websites side by side within a single browser screen. Of course you have to align them manually, but for anyone who must have them side by side, this is a possibility.

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In Korea, most of the major translations are based on the PTS editions. That is why I thought it would be very convenient if the PTS versions were also provided separately. ()

Using the method you suggested to compare them side by side seems like a great idea as well. Thank you so much for the information! :slight_smile:

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I definitely grant you that the pages they are shown on the links you provided are not very user friendly. Perhaps the group that has digitized them will provide a better layout.