On Nov 20, 2007 8:32 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:24:50 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Am 20.11.2007 um 19:38 schrieb luigi scarso:
> >
> >> I am looking for a way to typeset bilingual text as parallel text,
> >> keeping each paragraph opposite the corresponding paragraph (left/
> >> right page).
> >>
> >> The ledpar package from the ledmac bundle does this (I was told).
> >>
> >>
> >> How can this be done with ConTeXt?
> >> maybe streams?
> >
> >
> > Maybe streams.
> >
> > Right! Idris started a thread on parallel texts called "Streams" in
> > March, 7th.
> > But this thread never received any answer ... o(
>
> True, but there is a m-streams module in the distribution. Hans was
> experimenting with these once upon a time and you can check them out. I
> think luigi was referring to that.
>
It's not mine!
search for thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usemodule[streams]
\def\StartCouple{\page\SwitchToNormal}
\def\StopCouple {\SwitchToNormal \SynchronizeLeftAndRight
\FlushLeftAndRight}
\def\Original {\SwitchToNormal\SynchronizeLeftAndRight\SwitchToLeft}
\def\Translation{\SwitchToRight}
%%So you put the part of your document where synchronization should
%%take place between \StartCouple and \StopCouple. After that ,
%%\Original and \Translation switches between even and odd pages.
\starttext
\scale[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight,factor=fit]{\ss m-streams}
\page
\StartCouple
\Original
this is an original text \crlf
\input knuth
\blank[1cm]
\Translation
THIS IS THE TRANSLATION \crlf
\input tufte
\Original
\ss this is an original text \crlf
\input knuth
\Translation
\tt THIS IS THE TRANSLATION \crlf
\input tufte
\StopCouple
\stoptext
>
> Best wishes
> Idris
>
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