jimw wagner wrote:
Paul_B wrote:
Is there any way to do parallel columns in Write? By that I mean
columns where the text flow in each column is independent of that
in the other, except that page breaks would be honored.
I've tried columns, tables, and frames so far, with no luck. All
I get is newspaper-type story flow.
I've been doing this for several years now, usually in sets of three
columns, to compare translations of texts in various languages.
What I do is to set up one of the texts in a table, usually putting in
some marker(*) after each period or question mark, then replacing each
* by the regex for a paragraph end, then setting up the table to
divide at paragraphs.
I then go in and add two columns (more is possible, but gives very
thin columns) then paste in the other information.
Pasting in the other information can be done a sentence at a time, or
by making a table out of the information, then cutting it and pasting
it into the appropriate column.
Write back if you have a problem, and I'll see if I can help more.
JimW
I tried to send off a sample of one of my tables to your address, but it
couldn't be delivered. If I attached it here, it'd just get stripped
off. Is a there any way I could get the example to you?
From my reading of your response, you want to do pretty much what I do,
but it doesn't work for you. I'd like to give you an example of what
I've done so you can tell me how it differs from what you want, that way
we could get on the same page.
JimW
