* Skriv a reas Gildas Hamel (gwel...@ucsc.edu): |> * Skriv a reas Amanuel Medhanie (medha...@umn.edu): |> |> Hello everyone, |> |> I am working on a two-sided wedding invitation (for my wedding) where one |> |> side is in English and the other side is in Amharic. I have the latex code [commenting upon my previous message after realizing :: is a sentence marker] It looks better with breaks after (::) and with centering, as below. I see a small space after the word separator (:). I don't know what to do about that. I'm attaching a pdf. \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{parallel} \usepackage{polyglossia} \pagestyle{empty} \setmainlanguage{english} \setotherlanguage{amharic} \newfontfamily\amharicfont[Script=Ethiopic, Scale=1.3]{Abyssinica SIL} \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "en" \XeTeXlinebreakskip 0pt plus 1pt
\begin{document} \title{Sample in Gǝ`ǝz} \maketitle \begin{Parallel}[p]{15cm}{15cm} \ParallelLText{\center\textamharic{% እስመ፡አግዚአብሔር፡አምላክ፡ማእምር፡ውእቱ። እግዚአብሔር፡አስተደወ፡መንብሮ። ወአድከመ፡ቅሥተ፡ኀያላን። ወአቅነቶሙ፡ኀይለ፡ለድኩማን። ጽጉማን፡እክል፡ርኅቡ። ወርኁባን፡ጸግቡ። እስመ፡መካን፡ወለደት፡ሰብዐተ፡ወወለድሰ፡ስእነት፡ወሊደ፡እግዚአብሔር፡ይቀትል፡ወየሐዩ። ያወርድኒ፡ውስተ፡ሲእል፡ወየዐርግ። እግዚአብሔር፡ያነዲ፡ወያብዕል። ያኀስርሂ፡ወያከብር፡ዘያነሥኦ፡እምድር፡ለነዳይ። ከመ፡ያንብሮ፡ምስለ፡ዓበይ[ተ]~።}% \vspace{30ex}} \ParallelRText{Here goes the English text} \end{Parallel} \end{document} --Gildas
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