Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-02 Thread bruce . somers
Thanks for all the tips. You asked the same question about the same site around a year ago, and received an appropriate answer from Georg Sortun on how to make corresponding paragraphs begin on the same line. Check the list archives. Ow! I had completely lost track of that. Thanks. I

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-02 Thread David Laakso
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: Thanks for all the tips. You asked the same question about the same site around a year ago, and received an appropriate answer from Georg Sortun on how to make corresponding paragraphs begin on the same line. Check the list archives. Ow! I had

[css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread bruce . somers
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

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
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

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread Chetan Crasta
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.comwrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2010,

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread Climis, Tim
I hope that someone will have a suggestion for me. Brace yourself... I actually think that this could be argued to be a legitimate use of tables to display tabular data. It's certainly not tabular data in the tradition spreadsheet sense, but it is data that corresponds to other data arranged

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread David Laakso
Climis, Tim wrote: I hope that someone will have a suggestion for me. Brace yourself... I actually think that this could be argued to be a legitimate use of tables to display tabular data. It's certainly not tabular data in the tradition spreadsheet sense, but it is data that

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread bruce . somers
Von: Climis, Tim tcli...@indiana.edu I hope that someone will have a suggestion for me. Brace yourself... I actually think that this could be argued to be a legitimate use of tables to display tabular data. It's certainly not tabular data in the tradition spreadsheet sense, but it

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread David Laakso
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: And ditch the rivers. ~d Sorry. I don't understand rivers. Bruce re: http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/press/press8a.html Typography: rivers and lakes are the gaps that run down the text-block. If you do not see them, view your entire page from

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread Jesse Dawson
Von: Climis, Tim tcli...@indiana.edu I hope that someone will have a suggestion for me. Brace yourself... I actually think that this could be argued to be a legitimate use of tables to display tabular data. It's certainly not tabular data in the tradition spreadsheet sense, but it

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread David Laakso
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: Von: Climis, Tim tcli...@indiana.edu I hope that someone will have a suggestion for me. Brace yourself... I actually think that this could be argued to be a legitimate use of tables to display tabular data. It's certainly not tabular data in

Re: [css-d] Synchronized paragraphs in adjacent columns

2010-02-01 Thread Climis, Tim
This may be a crazy suggestion, but in my mind a definition list (dl, dt, dd) wouldn't be out of the question You'd either have to avoid paragraph tags, etc, or damn the standards. I had the same thought, but decided not to damn the standards. So I suggested the paragraph solution instead.