Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Yes, that is clear from the emails over a decade or so on the list. But as you will see from my response to Taco, it is possible I can achieve a satisfactory result from Wolfgang's 2016 'stream' suggestion. Julian On 3/4/23 22:04, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: This is one these pr

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Thanks Peter. I took a look at your lua pages. I think I would get entirely lost with that code at this stage, and of course I am not considering (at least not for now) a two-column approach, but facing pages. But at least you achieved what you were trying to do at the time. Hopefully I will al

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Okay Taco, so that's a possibility I can explore, even though it is not a nice one, as you say. I can think of a couple of other not-so-nice ways of achieving a result as well. The manuscript shown me (in MSWord, obviously) has been carefully prepared to ensure no text flows over a page, so we

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.04.23 um 11:54 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Q 2: I suppose the third question is whether, since LMTX, there has been any further development in the 'streams' mechanism that might help me? No. This is one these problems that arise once every other year, but so far nobody contributed a u

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Peter Münster via ntg-context
On Mon, Apr 03 2023, jbf via ntg-context wrote: > Q 1: Has anybody reading this actually produced a bilingual book (it doesn't > have to be en-vn) with ConTeXt? Hi, Only some pages of a book: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Catalogue_raisonné HTH, -- Peter ___

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context
> On 3 Apr 2023, at 11:54, jbf via ntg-context wrote: > > Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my > possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese > facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but generally so. > The only ConT

[NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but generally so. The only ConTeXt guidelines I think I have at the moment are (1) an old module c