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Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:19:10 +0200:
I uploaded a not yet complete manual on column sets:
This is indeed amazing. And I'm ashamed, because I recognise that it's "give users a finger, and they'll want the whole hand." But... This seems relevant to a problem I've been considering the past couple of days. I'd like to typeset side-by-side translations of an extended work. I imagine one language in an inner column, and another in an outer column, with chapter headings spanning the two columns, acting as a synchronisation point. I played with the old "paragraphs in columns" mechanism, and noticed that it doesn't seem to support page breaking, which is probably the big barrier to this application--TeX has to juggle two places to break pages. Am I taking the wrong approach? Is this design too ambitious? Has anyone else tried this sort of thing? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-