left/right page lineup

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

I am not sure that i understand what you need but maybe you need what
I did a few years ago. I prepared a book of poems where each poems
starts on a new page and each poem is in two languages, left page in
Hindi, right page in Czech. The translation preserved the form, i.e.
the number of lines. Some poems was just on one page, some of them
needed two pages so the macros were designed to put the first part of
the Hindi version, then the first part of the Czech version, then the
second part of the Hindi version and the second part of the Czech
version. The macros are a bit complex but if you like, I can send them
to you. You will probably have to modify them.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

st 27. 4. 2022 v 15:08 odesílatel <karl at aspodata.se> napsal:
>
>  How do you line up, in a page spread, the left and right
> page text lines ?
>
> I'm trying to make a text booklet (size 115 x 180 mm)
> in a dvd-case for a music recording of Buxtehudes
> membra Jesu nostri:
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membra_Jesu_Nostri
>
> In it I like to have the latin text on the left page
> and the translation on the right page. The pages are
> too small to have the latin and translation side by side
> on the same page.
>
> Now given the files in:
>  http://aspodata.se/tmp/tex/
> it works fine for the first spread to just have the same amount of
> text lines in the tex file. But for the second spread it doesn't work.
>
> Both the latin and the translation have the same amount of lines.
> How come it is typeset differently ?
> How do I do to solve that without resorting to manually setting
> paragraph heights ?
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>
>