Re: What do you miss in ConTeXt?:

[Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 09:29 PM,  David Rogers) wrote:
.... ConTeXt
> itself has beautiful support for side-by-side translations. It makes me
> happy every time I look at the results. But... it works only on separate
> pages. Making it work on columns as well would make my life easier. (May
> be impossible, but you asked...)
>
> |Original Language|First Translation|Second Translation|
> |Bla bla bla ...  |Blu blu blu ...  |Ble ble ble ...   |


Hi David,
For what it is worth, I have done side by side Italian-English texts
in columns with the help of paragraphs. I wanted the Italian original
slanted. So In the preamble I have

\defineparagraphs[mypar] [n=2,distance=1em]
\setupparagraphs[mypar][1][style=slanted]
\setupparagraphs[mypar][2][style=normal]

In the text:
\startmypar
Some text in language Italian, slanted.
\mypar
The text translated in English, regular.
\stopmypar
etc.
So your example could be done as follows

\defineparagraphs[mypar] [n=3,distance=1em]%or some other distance
\setupparagraphs[mypar][1][style=slanted]%or
\setupparagraphs[mypar][2][style=normal]
\setupparagraphs[mypar][3][style=normal]

\starttext

This is a side by side translation in columns.
\startmypar
Original Language
\mypar
First Translation
\mypar
Second Translation
\stopmypar
\startmypar
Bla bla bla \dots
\mypar
Blu blu blu \dots
\mypar
Ble ble ble \dots
\stopmypar

\stoptext

Maybe you could teach me how to do side by side translations on opposite pages.
Regards,
Robert Blackstone
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