> > I'm trying to see how much trouble it would be to typeset > > a bilingual text parallel by pages, as in, one language on > > the recto page, the other on the verso page, synchronized > > somehow by paragraph, preferably more or less automagically.
> I would say you could do this with a number of custom macros, > in the same vein as Ted Harding's suggested solution (your > first reference). Here is a little proof-of-concept, built entirely with a few ad-hoc macros and some hacks to account for font (mis-)encoding: https://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/~hoffmann/roff/2lang/ View the PDF in acroread with page display settings "Two-Up" and "Show Cover Page During Two-Up". (Setting Fraktur really isn't my area of expertise, so I beg pardon for any blunders I may have committed.)
