Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-13 Thread Larry Kollar
E. Hoffmann wrote: > > Hello *roffers. > > Excuse me if this question has been answered zillions of time, > or if it is all absurd, but I don't find an answer ... > > I want to typeset parallel texts, like a translation, the original > *always* in the left column, the

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > Have a look at the attached .mom and .pdf files. > > Nothing attached? Does Mailman strip? Oops. Attached here. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca .TITLE "L'étranger .AUTHOR "Albert Camus .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET .

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Deri James
On Thu 07 Sep 2017 18:07:27 Peter Schaffter wrote: > You'll notice that the top of the pdf file has a > line of text spit out by grep(1) that obviously shouldn't be there. > I guess I've never had to deal with diacritics in titles, because > I've never seen this before and the line only appears

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Have a look at the attached .mom and .pdf files. Nothing attached? Does Mailman strip? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Peter Schaffter
> > > > page 1 page 2 > > > > > > > > aaa ... > > > > aaa... aaa > > > > --- --- > > > > bbb ... > > > > bbb... bbb > > Thinking aloud here, I

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Erich, > > > Of course it would be a hypertrophy changeing the distances each and > > every page...no, the idea is to have two parts of text on each page. I don't have the groff chops to address this in general, but I will

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Erich, > Of course it would be a hypertrophy changeing the distances each and > every page...no, the idea is to have two parts of text on each page. Overkill to manually have to change the distance, or too jarring for the reader to have it move up and down each page? I was thinking .EN

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-06 Thread Peter Schaffter
Erich -- On Wed, Sep 06, 2017, E. Hoffmann wrote: > Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:36:34 +0100 (Ralph Corderoy ): > > Hi Erich, > > Hi Ralph! Thank you for looking into it. > > > > Moreover, is a thing possible not to have vertical columns, but > > > horizontal texts, above and

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-06 Thread E. Hoffmann
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:36:34 +0100 (Ralph Corderoy ): > Hi Erich, Hi Ralph! Thank you for looking into it. > > Moreover, is a thing possible not to have vertical columns, but > > horizontal texts, above and below, like > > > > page 1 page 2 > > > >

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-06 Thread Ted Harding
A. On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 18:13 +0200, E. Hoffmann wrote: > Hello *roffers. > > Excuse me if this question has been answered zillions of time, > or if it is all absurd, but I don't find an answer ... > >I want to typeset parallel texts, like a translation, the original > *always* in the

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Erich, > Moreover, is a thing possible not to have vertical columns, but > horizontal texts, above and below, like > > page 1 page 2 > > aaa ... > aaa... aaa > --- --- > bbb

[Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-06 Thread E. Hoffmann
Hello *roffers. Excuse me if this question has been answered zillions of time, or if it is all absurd, but I don't find an answer ... I want to typeset parallel texts, like a translation, the original *always* in the left column, the translation *always* right. TeX has the "parallel" package