From: "Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: typesetting bilingual texts
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:53:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F09E645.7020807@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120106115724.GB27824@eureca.de>
On 01/06/2012 12:57 PM, Susan Dittmar wrote:
> Dear Pablo,
>> [...]
> I understand your hesitation to do that work by hand. You are right, it
> should be easy to do that automatically. But I think ConTeXt, mighty as it
> is, is not the right tool to do that merging. How about a small perl script
> that does the merging? In fact, any programming language should do, if the
> breakpoints are really as easy to spot as you suggest. And then ConTeXt can
> do the typesetting without the need to keep 600+ pages of
> read-but-not-yet-processed text in memory before it receives the second
> half so it can start typesetting...
Dear Susan,
many thanks for your reply.
These examples were only ways to learn ConTeXt to me. No real work.
Although I'm interested in a bilingual Homer edition (just investigating).
Thanks for your help,
Pablo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-08 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-06 9:59 Pablo Rodríguez
2012-01-06 11:57 ` Susan Dittmar
2012-01-08 18:53 ` Pablo Rodríguez [this message]
2012-01-07 14:10 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-07 15:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-08 19:49 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2012-01-09 8:50 ` Hans Hagen
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