On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Parsloe <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On 9/10/2013 6:49 a.m., Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 10/08/2013 01:31 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote: >> >>> Dear LyX-Users, >>> >>> I would like to create the following layout for exchanging comments on >>> drafts with collaborators: >>> >>> Text on the left / verso page, right / recto page reserved for notes. >>> When you insert a note in the text, that note would appear on the >>> opposite page, at roughly the same height as the text into which it >>> was inserted. I suppose this is similar to margin notes, but allowing >>> more space for easier reading. >>> >>> Is this possible? >>> >> >> You could at least fake it by, e.g., switching to landscape, making a >> very large right margin, and then setting some parameter or other >> governing marginal notes so that they will print sensibly on the right. >> Beyond that, the only way this would be possible is if there is some >> LaTeX package that does this kind of thing---or, of course, if someone >> were to write one. You could try searching CTAN, perhaps looking for >> packages that modify how marginal notes behave. >> >> Richard >> >> > I believe the eledpar package is designed to do this: the abstract from > its documentation says: > > The eledmac package, which is based on the Plain TEX set of EDMAC > macros, has been used for some time for typesetting critical editions. The > eledpar package is an extension to eledmac which enables texts and their > critical apparatus to be typeset in parallel, either in two columns or on > pairs of facing pages. > > Not quite. Eledpar allows you to typeset on facing pages, BUT the texts themselves must be shorter than a page. So it won't work. I think Richard's suggestions is the most plausible one. What you really want are big margin notes. I would proceed by defining a custom pagesize with a large space for margin notes (for example in memoir. or in koma-script, which have nice facilites fut custom page sizes). You may want to just double lettersize and keep all of the extra space on the right for the margin notes. It may get tricky if you want print the draft on separate pages, through. You'd need the opposite of 2-up printing. I am not sure that's possible Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
