On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:12 PM, stefano franchi <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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 > > I take it back. Apparently splitting a large page onto 2 smaller ones is a realtively easy job that goes under the name of "Banner" or "Poster" printing. Acrobat reader X offers it as an option, and there other utilities for those of us who us Adobe-unsupported Os'es So, it could be done with margin notes, after all. S. -- __________________________________________________ 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
