Have you thought of using a definition list?

<dl>
   <dt>Original text</dt>
        <dd>Translated text</dd>
  <dt>Original text</dt>
       <dd>Translated text</dd>
</dl>

You can use css to style the dl dt and dd elements.

Jim

On Jan 29, 2008 10:32 AM, T. R. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm working on a project to display interlinear text (original
> language with a very literal word-by-word translation immediately
> below). The only presentation which my poor imagination can conceive
> is to place each word in a separate cell with the translating word in
> a separate cell immediately below (centring the text in every cell to
> maintain alignment). But this would make searching for phrases (in
> either language) impossible.
>
>
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