[XeTeX] : Re: Parallel texts

[John Was]

Dear Joachim

Grüße aus Ihrer Partnerstadt.

Thanks for the tip - I'll take a look.  I guess from the 'l' in ledpar that 
it's a LaTeX package, so I may have to give in and get properly acquainted 
with LaTeX.  It's easy enough to conceptualize what is wanted - all the 
annotation is cued on the left-hand pages, but it should be distributed 
evenly at the foot of both left- and right-hand pages, and the main area of 
the right-hand page should be reserved for a subsidiary text such as a 
translation.  But converting that into a form that TeX can understand, and 
then into useable PDF output, is quite a challenge.  I'll certainly take a 
look and should at least get some good ideas.

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joachim Trinkwitz" <jtr at uni-bonn.de>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Parallel texts


Am 03.06.2007 um 17:24 schrieb John Was:

> Parallel texts are a difficult problem, though, and I'm not aware
> of any way
> of automating the process, though I would be extremely interested
> if someone
> has figured it out.

The ledpar package from the ledmac bundle does this.

joachim

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