In this case, using a table is justified. There is a relationship between the English paragraph and it's French translation, therefore putting them in a table row is semantically correct.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > At http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/press/press8a.html I have an article in > French and my English translation, in adjacent columns. > > > > Corresponding paragraphs of the original and the translation begin on the > same line, although the paragraphs are usually of different lengths. This > was done in 2002 -- brace yourselves now -- using tables. > > > > I now have more translations to display. I am not far enough along to > figure out how to do this with CSS. It doesn't appear to me that any sort of > list will do the trick. I can, of course, be wrong. > > Try something like this: > > p.eng { > clear: both; > width: 35%; /* adjust to taste */ > float: left; > } > > p.fr { > margin-left: 37%; > } > > > And fix the character encoding; you are serving the page as UTF-8, but > the character encoding is something else (ISO-8859-1?): < > http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/nesbitt.jpg> > > > -- > Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> > =================================================================== > Author: > Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) > Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
