Re: how to produce text with facing translation?

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

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