This is great!  Thank you.
Mark


On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 6:29 PM 'William Lupton' via pandoc-discuss <
pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> For completeness, I should mention that (for HTML or for PDF created via
> HTML) you can use the CSS 'float' property. However I think that the
> list-table approach is probably better.
>
> You can structure the markdown like this (here I've put the necessary CSS
> in the header includes). See the attached .md and .html files.
>
> ---
> title: Paper 1.1
>
> header-includes: |
>   <style>
>   div.left {
>     width: 49%;
>     float: left;
>   }
>
>   div.right {
>     width: 49%;
>     float: right;
>   }
>
>   div.clear {
>     clear: both;
>   }
>   </style>
> ...
>
> ## Section 1 of 13
>
> ::: {.left .OldEnglish}
>
> AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting
> federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution
> for the United States of America.
>
> :::
>
> ::: {.right .ModernEnglish}
>
> After clearly experiencing that the current federal government isn't
> working well, you are asked to think about a new Constitution for the
> United States of America.
>
> :::
>
> ::: clear
> :::
>
> <etc.>
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 10:13, William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps you could use list-tables (
>> https://github.com/pandoc-ext/list-table)?
>>
>> I've attached your markdown with the first section updated to use a
>> list-table, and with the other sections removed. The changes are rather
>> minimal, e.g., here are the start of the fenced div and the first row (you
>> can see that I converted your {.OldEnglish} (etc.) to []{.OldEnglish},
>> i.e., to an empty span with class OldEnglish, which is carried over to
>> the table cell).
>>
>> ::: {.list-table header-rows=0}
>>
>> - - []{.OldEnglish} AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency
>> of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on
>> a new Constitution for the United States of America.
>>
>>   - []{.ModernEnglish} After clearly experiencing that the current
>> federal government isn't working well, you are asked to think about a new
>> Constitution for the United States of America.
>>
>> I also attach the HTML generated via this command:
>>
>> % pandoc -L list-table.lua Paper\ 1.1\ list-table.md > Paper\ 1.1\
>> list-table.html
>>
>> Here's the HTML for the first row.
>>
>> <tr class="odd">
>> <td class="OldEnglish"><p> AFTER an unequivocal experience of the
>> inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon
>> to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of
>> America.</p></td>
>> <td class="ModernEnglish"><p> After clearly experiencing that the
>> current federal government isn’t working well, you are asked to think
>> about a new Constitution for the United States of America.</p></td>
>> </tr>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> William
>>
>> On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 06:58, S. Manning <scriptor-aFO/2INALiozYggVrLCuDg@public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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