> With a little more macro magic, I would assume it wouldn't be
> too much trouble for both pages to have the same content for a
> portion of it, such as with an illustration, say, or a math
> equation.
Indeed, that should be possible without much work. In the
simplest case, one could just dupl
> Here is a little proof-of-concept, built entirely with a few
> ad-hoc macros and some hacks to account for font (mis-)encoding:
It looks pretty swell for a PoC! Also, Mark Twain is a great satirist, I'll say
that!
> View the PDF in acroread with page display settings "Two-Up"
> and "Show Cover
> > I'm trying to see how much trouble it would be to typeset
> > a bilingual text parallel by pages, as in, one language on
> > the recto page, the other on the verso page, synchronized
> > somehow by paragraph, preferably more or less automagically.
> I would say you could do this with a numbe
This is a great idea but it includes diversions which took me a long time
to get happy with and I'm a huge troff fan. The person who asked is so
far away from understanding those.
I don't want to discourage that person, just saying that you need to use
troff for a while to get it. I'm happy to h
I don't see how to typeset a multilingual text
parallel by page strictly within groff.
However, suppose
1. the input comes from two different files
that contain synch points.
2 corresponding synch points must appear
on facing pages.
3. segments between successive sync points
always fit on one pag
> I'm trying to see how much trouble it would be to typeset
> a bilingual text parallel by pages, as in, one language on
> the recto page, the other on the verso page, synchronized
> somehow by paragraph, preferably more or less automagically.
I would say you could do this with a number of custo
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:54:45PM -0400, Hendursaga wrote:
> > May I suggest formatting side-by-wide text on a single page using tbl(1) .
> >
> > This will get you the side by side paragraphs (or whatever lumping you
> > want) automagically with only complete lumps on each page.
>
> Thanks for
agraph,
> preferably more or less automagically. I've searched the list already
> and came upon an interesting albeit two decade old message[1] that
> went unanswered as well as a much more recent thread[2] that deals
> with parallel typesetting with columns, on the same page
y and came upon an interesting
albeit two decade old message[1] that went unanswered as well as a much more
recent thread[2] that deals with parallel typesetting with columns, on the same
page, which is NOT what I'm looking for.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Hendursaga
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/arc
