left/right page lineup

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 16:05:48 CEST 2022


st 27. 4. 2022 v 15:35 odesílatel <karl at aspodata.se> napsal:
>
> Zdenek Wagner:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, I want to preserve the form and I think one page each should be
> sufficient.
>
> Now that you mentions it, I might search for poetry packages.
>
I have my own poetry package which also allows mixing of prose into a
poem and a poem into a prose. It is quite configurable but almost
undocumented and my multilingual solutin is based upon this package. I
was asked to write about it to TUGboat but I found no time...

> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>

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



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