Thank you Kornel, with your suggestion I got things to be aligned. But unfortunately I can't have boxes longer than a page: they would print only the first page otherwise! I don't have any clue about how to fix this! Do you? vince
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: Kornel Benko [mailto:[email protected]] Inviato: ven 09/10/2009 17.57 A: [email protected] Oggetto: Re: Double language layout Am Freitag 09 Oktober 2009 schrieb rgheck: > On 10/09/2009 10:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I'm writing my thesis and I was wondering whether it is possible to use > > Lyx for a double language document. What I'd like to do is having a > > double column layout with the text written in one language on the left > > and another one on the right side. The text should be aligned: chapters, > > sections, etc. should start at the same point in the page, and the only > > things to be shared between the two languages would be tables, figures > > and equations. Does anyone of you know how to do this? > > I don't think it would be possible to do this in LyX natively, i.e., > without a LOT of ERT. There must be some LaTeX packages that do this > kind of thing, but I don't know of them, and you might be better off > just doing the whole thing in LaTeX. > > rh I have done something like this with minipages, simulating so double columns. 1.) Insert->Box, Right click->Settings->With 45 Column width 2.) Insert->Formatting->Horizontal space...->Spacing=Horizontal fill 3.) Insert->Box, Right click->Settings->With 45 Column width Kornel -- Kornel Benko [email protected]
