Re: how to produce text with facing translation?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi,

indeed specs is what we need; also think about how to deal with graphics;

an odd-even pages is doable ; remind me in a week (due to family 
circumstances i'll be sparsely online)

Hans




Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> Hraban,
>
> sounds excellent! OK, what I would dream of for the time being would  
> be: ConTeXt treats a pair of even/odd pages like a unity. It would be  
> ideal to have two input streams, maybe as \start ... \stop environments.
>
> \startevenpage
>
> text
>
> \stopevenpage
>
> \startoddpage
>
> text
>
> \stopoddpage
>
> It would be important to have commands like \breakevenpage and  
> \breakoddpage that would insert a pagebreak without breaking the  
> paragraph.* Both even and odd have their own set of footnotes. Both  
> even and odd can have their own dimensions:
>
> \setupevenpage[. . .]
>
> \setupoddpage[. . .]
>
> see \setuplayout.
>
> Would that be possible? How hard would it be in ConTeXt? And is there  
> anything in the source that I could look at to get things going?
>
> Best
>
> Thomas
>
> * I'm not sure if this is clear enough. What I want is
>
> XXXXX   XXXXX
> XXXXX   XXXXX
> XXXXX   XXXXX
> XXXXX
>
> PAGEBREAK
>
> and not
>
> XXXXX   XXXXX
> XXXXX   XXXXX
> XXXXX   XXXX
> XXXXX
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>   
>> Friendly as ever, Hans suggests that you write a sample/spec how
>> you'd like to use this feature, so that he can think about some
>> implementation himself.
>>
>> E.g., would such help?:
>>
>> \setupsynced[setup name][mode=pages, after=pagebreak, n=2]
>> % n = (number of synced columns, think of more language versions to
>> compare...; default=2)
>> % mode = pages, columns (default=columns; pages only with n=2)
>> % after = pagebreak, space, continue...? (what should we do with
>> remaining space in column?)
>> % footnotes = local, ...? (synced text needs its own set of footnote
>> counters...)
>> % frame, background etc.?
>>
>> \startsynced[mysetup]%
>> { greek text }%
>> { german text }
>> \stopsynced
>>
>> This would be analogous to combinations, but could handle only single
>> paragraphs, I guess.
>> I don't think I need this feature, so it's your turn to propose a
>> syntax!
>>
>> Greetlings from Lake Constance!
>> Hraban
>>     
>
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