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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Different text versions in columns?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:01:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5834C040.1000307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AFB63524-B603-4094-B6F9-A36C8E2E6BD1@fiee.net>


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> Henning Hraban Ramm <mailto:texml@fiee.net>
> 22. November 2016 um 21:42
> Hi, this is related to the current thread about TwoColumns, but different:
>
> For changes in bylaws or similar legal texts, I need to typeset the 
> old and new version side by side, while paragraphs should start at the 
> same height, different lengths of paragraphs to be balanced with 
> whitespace. I’d like to have both versions on one page (i.e. in columns).
>
> That means, the streams module is not suitable, if it would work in 
> MkIV at all.
> Is there a better solution than using a table? (And which one is best?)
1. Streams work in MkIV
2. The MkIV version has a command to set sync points.

Only the mechanism to create pages/columns for the stream content is 
missing.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-22 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-22 20:42 Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-11-22 22:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2016-11-24 20:13   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-11-24 23:19     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-11-25 23:14   ` Arthur Reutenauer
2016-11-27 13:13     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2016-11-27 17:28       ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2016-11-27 17:44       ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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