left/right page lineup

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

this is more difficult than my solution because in paracol you have to
split it and put Latin, Swedish, Latin, Swedish, etc. Whe I was
preparing our Hindi.Czech book (see
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ArunakashKaRasta/), I developed an
environment where I put the whole Hindi poem and the whole Czech poem.
Each of them is typeset to a \vbox and if it is higher than
\textheight, it is split to pieces by \vsplit and the boxes are then
placed to the pages. I do not have flexible spaces between paragraph,
i.e. \parskip is a fixed length without the "plus" and "minus" part,
flexibility is allowed on the bottom of page only. And since both
versions have the same numbers of lines, they are vertically aligned.

I do not know Swedish and I am lazy to try translators but I think
that "till dig ändå" at the end of the long line means "for your
soul". I do not know Latin as well but it seems to me that I do not
see it in the Latin text while "de tuis sanctis pedibus" certainly
means "från dina heliga fötter" (I know a little Danish and
Norwegian).

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

st 27. 4. 2022 v 17:10 odesílatel Robert Alessi
<alessi at robertalessi.net> napsal:
>
> Hello Karl,
>
> Maybe you should use the verse package for poetry and the paracol
> package for parallel typesetting, as in the attached files.
>
> paracol uses the starred version of \begin{column} to have texts
> printed in such a way that the tops of all paragraphs are vertically
> aligned.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 03:08:32PM +0200, karl at aspodata.se wrote:
> >  How do you line up, in a page spread, the left and right
> > page text lines ?
> >
> > I'm trying to make a text booklet (size 115 x 180 mm)
> > in a dvd-case for a music recording of Buxtehudes
> > membra Jesu nostri:
> >  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membra_Jesu_Nostri
> >
> > In it I like to have the latin text on the left page
> > and the translation on the right page. The pages are
> > too small to have the latin and translation side by side
> > on the same page.
> >
> > Now given the files in:
> >  http://aspodata.se/tmp/tex/
> > it works fine for the first spread to just have the same amount of
> > text lines in the tex file. But for the second spread it doesn't work.
> >
> > Both the latin and the translation have the same amount of lines.
> > How come it is typeset differently ?
> > How do I do to solve that without resorting to manually setting
> > paragraph heights ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > /Karl Hammar
> >