Sorry Dan, but I really don't understand where you are going with this. I have two streams of text. I would like to have one stream on one side, and the other stream on the other side of facing pages. That way I can break the flow of either without having to alternate text (which how it is done now)
On 10/15/14 4:58 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: > On 10/15/2014 08:26 AM, Ginterak wrote: >> Dan, >> If I place 1000 words in the left page, the words are still going to >> overflow onto the right page - I am not sure what your idea is >> actually accomplishing. > In my reply, I keyed on having the original on the left page and > the translation on the right page. By having these appear side by > side, one can see both at the same time and compare them if desired. > What seems to be obvious to me is that the number of words > required for a given thought in different languages can be different. > So what would be a full page for one language may be less than or more > than a page. So there is no guarantee that the the same thoughts will > be contained in side by side pages. So, what purpose does having > original and translation being side by side? It is quite possible that > in a rather long article, some of the side by side pages may not have > any thoughts in common. > My thoughts came from how a Bible program handles this situation. > For example, I have German and English translations of the Bible side > by side. There the same verses are shown for them. Sometimes there are > extra spaces on the German side, and sometimes there are extra on the > English side. I also have a German-English New Testament from the > 1800's. It also has the same print layout. > A very important question is: What is the purpose of having the > original and the translation side by side? This should determine the > layout. > > Dan >> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 10/14/2014 12:15 PM, Marc Grober wrote: >>>> Is there is technical solution to running parallel text in side by >>>> side >>>> pages (the best example would be a text with a translation where you >>>> have the original on one page and the translation on the facing page. >>>> This is done easily enough in columns, but there must be some way to >>>> pass two threads of raw text to a section in which one thread is >>>> passed >>>> only to odd pages and the other only to even pages, or are we stuck >>>> with alternating the text manually and inserting a gazillion page >>>> breaks? >>> I think that page styles will do it. Open an untitled document >>> in Writer. Use the F4 key to open the Styles and Formating Window. >>> Click the "Page Styles" icon at the top of this window. Double click >>> "First Page" from the lists of page styles to apply this style to >>> the page. Then right click "First Page" and select Modify from the >>> context menu. Change the "Next Style" property to "Left Page". Click >>> OK. >>> This should do it. Enter the original text on the left pages >>> and the translations on the right pages. >>> The reason this works is because of styles. They insure that >>> each left page is followed by a right page which is followed by a >>> left page... Writer is designed to begin with the first page on the >>> right, so you need the "First Page" to fulfill this need. From then >>> on the left and right pages will follow correctly. (No page breaks >>> are needed.) >>> In the bottom right corner of the Writer window are three icons >>> of pages. The one of the right is the one you should click if it is >>> not highlighted. This places two pages in the window beginning with >>> a right page first followed by a left right page combination. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: >>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot >>> be deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
