Dear List, I've made 2 mistakes : 1) a false link to a PDF text; 2) Giving a large PDF text. There is the link to Petr Březina paper on TeX and bilingual editions, that I've previously mentionned : http://mujweb.cz/petr-brezina/libelli/bilingue.pdf Certainly, as Wolfgang put it, there is probably some ways to achieve the goal mentionned in the title of this thread : 2 parallel texts synchronized on the same page, in 2 different languages. Maybe through the "stream" macros. JP ----- Mail original ----- De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Envoyé: Dimanche 27 Novembre 2016 12:27:31 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. Dear List, I fear I made a mistake with this paper's address : https://zimbra.free.fr/service/home/~/bilingue.pdf?auth=co&loc=fr&id=253997&part=2 Please, read it as attached file. Best, JP ----- Mail original ----- De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Envoyé: Samedi 26 Novembre 2016 18:51:11 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. Hi Arthur, Hans, Pablo and other brave ConteXT users ! The only development I've found on the subject matter of this thread is from Petr Březina (but in French), with some examples of historical printing material (like Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine and M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Licinio Archia poeta oratio. Rede für den Dichter A. Licinius Archias. Lateinisch / Deutsch. Übersetzt und herausgegeben von Otto Schönberger, bibliographisch ergänzte Ausgabe 1990, printed in Germany 1996, Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-001268-6. Petr Březina works with pure TeX, in order to imitate F. Didot in printing a bilingual text on 2 parallel paragraphs (see "Tâche n° 4", within his test, page 12). At the end of this file, there are some examples (see specially pages 26,27,28) : https://zimbra.free.fr/service/home/~/bilingue.pdf?auth=co&loc=fr&id=253997&part=2 ----- Mail original ----- De: "Arthur Reutenauer" À: "Mailing list for ConTeXt users" Envoyé: Vendredi 25 Novembre 2016 23:33:59 Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page. On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:16:28PM +0100, Jean-Pierre Delange wrote:

I make a statement on a part of the Arthur's reply (" there are no real-life examples of documents that use it") : in fact, there are rare examples of such printing materials : scholar editing and printing of Ancient texts are mainly (if I am right) such printing material (including Ancient Armenian or Georgian liturgic hymns).

That’s not what I meant. There is an experimental mechanism in ConTeXt called streams that could be part of the solution to your problem, but there are no publicly available documents that make use of it. The commands for creating and managing streams are in the file page-str.mkiv; there are short examples at the end. I mention this because this is typically the kind of issue that need serious input from users in order to become a meaningful feature. Best, Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________