Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/22/2015 4:28 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 07/22/2015 03:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: There are several different issues. Synchronization can be line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph, sectionblock-by-sectionblock... or, as is the case with the posting of this thread, part-by-part (i.e.

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/22/2015 3:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:54:17 +0200 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to

[NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Dear all, I am producing a book that is divided into two sections. The book is published in English, and thus it runs left to right. Part one is an academic study in English. Part two is a critical edition of an Arabic text. The book is exactly 100 pages long, with fifty pages going to the

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:54:17 +0200 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to handle the synchronization of texts.

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 05:58:04 -0600 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد idris.ha...@colostate.edu wrote: That said: You could typeset both books as distinct products or components within a single project file - see page 20 of cont-eni.pdf (I once did two books this way). Then you can do

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 03:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: There are several different issues. Synchronization can be line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph, sectionblock-by-sectionblock... or, as is the case with the posting of this thread, part-by-part (i.e. halves). The different products in multiple

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear Talal, Salaam. See below: On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:49:29 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear all, I am producing a book that is divided into two sections. The book is published in English, and thus it runs left to right. Part one is an academic study in

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to handle the synchronization of texts. However, I am not so sure how to go about this in a real, full-fledged case with a complicated text.