If you are interested in making critical editions, I warmly recommend the following conference presentation by Peter Robinson, as an iconoclastic and stimulating read. It's only 4.5 pages, but makes crucial points.

"What digital humanists don’t know about scholarly editing; what scholarly editors don’t know about the digital world."

http://www.academia.edu/4124828/SDSE_2013_why_digital_humanists_should_get_out_of_textual_scholarship
(the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/PeterRobinson10/peter-robinson-24420126)

"An edition is an argument about a text."

Dominik

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Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
University of Vienna,
Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria
and
Adjunct Professor,
Division of Health and Humanities,
St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
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