Am 24.10.2006 um 10:13 schrieb Markus Baertschi: > > On 10/24/06, Thomas R. Koll <tomk32 at gmx.de> wrote: >> It sounds hard, but get used to it (at least until the text engine is >> finally recoded). A roundawork, split the document into three or four >> parts. >> I usually make 60+ pages and accept bad performance cause I don't >> want to split it. > > That's what I think of doing. Essentially I'll be formatting a book > for my mother, > around 150 pages, 1-2 images per page, German and English text side- > by-side > (that's the reason I need 'parallel columns'). The book must be > available in > late spring (June) next year, so I'm early. But failure due to > insufficient preparation > is not an option :-).
If you're working on a book, it might be an option to split files along chapters, assumed you start a new page after each chapter that shouldn't add other difficulties and might bring some relief on the performance.. just my 2 cts Markus
