Re: putting stuff side by side

["S. Manning" <scriptor-aFO/2INALiozYggVrLCuDg@public.gmane.org>]

I would like to say that this is a classic problem which most rich text 
file formats (eg. DOCX or ODT) are not well set up to handle because its 
typical in a religious or academic context but not a business or 
government context.  Parallel texts in several languages are a very 
common and important use case in layout but one which most digital tools 
neglect because they were designed for business and bureaucratic 
writing.

I'm not aware of a way to handle this in any flavour of Markdown, in 
HTML I usually use tables but Markdown tables are awkward and not 
standardized.

Sean

On 2023-05-06 13:43, Mark Pinsley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am brand new to Pandoc. I have been looking at writting some content
> that I wanted to present in multiple ways. it seems like Pandoc can
> help.
> 
> A few things that I haven't been able to figure out.
> 
> 1. I have attached a document that I created it is the Federalist
> Paper #1. I have been using this document to try different things
> including creating references etc. What I haven't been able to figure
> out is the best method of first defining different paragraphs and then
> being able to do something specific with them
> 
> In this case. I have created the "Old English" version (which i
> probably should have just called Original) and the "Modern English"
> version.
> 
> So as I am typing I write in {.ModernEnglish} and {.OldEnglish}
> 
> If I want to produce these so that they are side by side. Meaning the
> old English in on the Left and the ModernEnglish  is on the right. How
> can I do that, or should I be coming out this in a completely
> different way? As I am writing I want to be able to quickly identify
> one from an other.
> 
> If I want the OldEnlgih to appear and then the ModernEngilsh as a
> CodeBlodk, do I just find/replace all ModernEnglish and replace with
> ">"  ??
> 
> 2. If I want to create a look and feel. I want to output this as HTML,
> PDF and PPT.
> 
> On each one I want a particular look/feel   How/where do I develop
> that look and feel (I am not a programmer so it would be easier if I
> could see what the output would look like - meaning moving colors
> around etc)
> 
> All help is appreciated. Thanks
> Mark
> 
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