Hi Olivier, Thanks for your reaction. My original proposal was: \startitemize \beginblockA \item Apple \endblockA \beginblockB \item Pomme \endBlockB \beginblockA \item Pear \endblockA \beginblockB \item Poire \endBlockB \stopitemize This does not work. The advantage of this setup is that in a bilingual document, printed separatedly, I have both languages underneath and thus more control than when I use separate itemize environments, such as proposed by Taco, and what I had thought of earlier: \beginblockA \startitemize .... \stopitemize \endblockA \beginblockB \startitemize .... \stopitemize \endblockB Nevertheless, if my proposal does not work, I guess I'll have to try it this way. Kind regards, Rob
Hi,
I might be wrong, but I think blocks are intended as buffered text. This way it is not good to use \item {block A}{bloc B} and it is not good as well to use {\item block A} {\item block B}
I think the only good way to use block is {\startitemize \item block A \stoptitemize} {\startitemize \item block B \stoptitemize} were good means a natural utilisation of blocks.
However, I certainly understand that the third solution is not practical for your intended usage.
Maybe a newif is more appropriate to your situation: \newif\ifenlang and \ifenlang \else \fi switches, or maybe even cases if you have more than one language.
Just some thought hoping it helps, Olivier