Re: [XeTeX] typesetting original with translation on top and bottom

2013-02-03 Thread PETER WILSON
For LaTeX there is the eledpar package for parallel texts on facing pages. There is also the booklet package, one of whose options is to put pairs of adjacent landscape pages top to bottom on a single portrait page. Perhaps a combination of these might work. However, both packages tend to stretch T

Re: [XeTeX] typesetting original with translation on top and bottom

2013-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Oh no. Groan. You aren't facing folia on different grids, surely ? Oops. Should read "You aren't /setting/ facing folia ...". Sorry. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listi

Re: [XeTeX] typesetting original with translation on top and bottom

2013-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
John Was wrote: > One thing that helps is to have the English capable of squeezing > up its \baselineskip so that the English, which tends to be wordier than > the Latin, can be accommodated on the page without getting out of step > with the Latin. Oh no. Groan. You aren't facing folia on dif

Re: [XeTeX] typesetting original with translation on top and bottom

2013-02-03 Thread John Was
Hello I will keep an eye on this thread since paired texts and translations pretty well test TeX to the limit, and I have two of these beasts on my desk at the moment. I have typeset some extensive editions of Latin prose texts with facing translation using plain (Xe)TeX and the edmac package

Re: [XeTeX] typesetting original with translation on top and bottom

2013-02-03 Thread Juan Acevedo
Hi Adam, Some time ago I fancied that something similar, some sort of complex Talmud layout, might be achieved using Nicola Talbot's flowfram.sty. If I remember well, she was optimistic about the possibility, but then I never went ahead with it. Maybe you can explore that route. There is also