left/right page lineup

[Robert Alessi]

Hi,

What you describe sounds very interesting.  Did you make a package out
of these macros?  Aside, you are right: switching columns all the time
is certainly not the most flexible way that is.  (As you are also
right about the line breaks.)

Best,

Robert

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:28:56PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is more difficult than my solution because in paracol you have to
> split it and put Latin, Swedish, Latin, Swedish, etc. Whe I was
> preparing our Hindi.Czech book (see
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ArunakashKaRasta/), I developed an
> environment where I put the whole Hindi poem and the whole Czech poem.
> Each of them is typeset to a \vbox and if it is higher than
> \textheight, it is split to pieces by \vsplit and the boxes are then
> placed to the pages. I do not have flexible spaces between paragraph,
> i.e. \parskip is a fixed length without the "plus" and "minus" part,
> flexibility is allowed on the bottom of page only. And since both
> versions have the same numbers of lines, they are vertically aligned.
> 
> I do not know Swedish and I am lazy to try translators but I think
> that "till dig ändå" at the end of the long line means "for your
> soul". I do not know Latin as well but it seems to me that I do not
> see it in the Latin text while "de tuis sanctis pedibus" certainly
> means "från dina heliga fötter" (I know a little Danish and
> Norwegian).
> 
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> 
> st 27. 4. 2022 v 17:10 odesílatel Robert Alessi
> <alessi at robertalessi.net> napsal:
> >
> > Hello Karl,
> >
> > Maybe you should use the verse package for poetry and the paracol
> > package for parallel typesetting, as in the attached files.
> >
> > paracol uses the starred version of \begin{column} to have texts
> > printed in such a way that the tops of all paragraphs are vertically
> > aligned.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 03:08:32PM +0200, karl at aspodata.se wrote:
> > >  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
> > >