Thanks. I'll try that. But, iirc, these had some other drawbacks.... I'll check if it works for my use case.
Is there a way to have blanks in the tabulate? Denis ________________________________________ Von: ntg-context <ntg-context-boun...@ntg.nl> im Auftrag von Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> Gesendet: Freitag, 26. August 2022 23:26:56 An: Denis Maier via ntg-context Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Parallel texts: verse with blanks between stanzas via tabulate Am 26.08.22 um 22:00 schrieb Denis Maier via ntg-context: > Hi, > > I need to typeset two poems side by side. Usually, I use the tabulate > environment for typesetting parallel texts. However, for poems this does > not quite work as tabulate does not seem to allow blanks between the > stanzas. See MWE below. Am I missing someting? Is there a better way to > achieve this? How about columnsets or paragraphs? \definecolumnset[Zwei][n=2] \startcolumnset[Zwei] \startlines Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight; \stoplines \column \startlines I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight. \stoplines \stopcolumnset \defineparagraphs[Zwei][n=2] \setupparagraphs[Zwei][1][ width=.45\textwidth, distance=2em, align={verytolerant,stretch}] % width of 2nd column is calculated automatically \startZwei ... \nextZwei ... \stopZwei Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________