Page Layout ⇒ Parallel bilingual text

[eire00]

Hi!

I am trying to typeset a bilingual text on parallel pages using "parallel" package.

The major problem I have here is that the corresponding elements (e.g. titles) are not in the same places on both pages (example in the attatchment).

Is there any way to make latex somehow to place them equally on both pages?

Piotr

[mojo]

Have you tried making the titles (or any other paragraphs you wish to align horizontally) their own set of parallel texts?

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\begin{Parallel}{3in}{3in}
\ParallelLText{
párrafo uno
}
\ParallelRText{
paragraph one
}
\ParallelPar

\ParallelLText{
Título 2
...
}
\ParallelRText{
Title 2

...
}
...
\end{Parallel}

[eire00]

yes, and the, for example, titles are on the next page (latex makes a pagebreak), and it is not what I want.

[mojo]

Can you post a minimal example that demonstrates the problem?

[mojo]

I did notice that when I inserted line breaks

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\\*

in the texts that Parallel got totally thrown off and did something resembling the screen shot you showed. My solution was to make paragraphs out of each line by (I was doing an epic poem) inserting a blank line in between each line.

[ziopietro]

Hi,

maybe you got it meantime, I read it just now. No extra line alignment needed, you must end each paragraph pair with \ParallelPar command. E.g.

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\ParallelLText{1st lang title}
\ParallelRText{2nd lang title}
\ParallelPar

\ParallelLText{1st lang paragraph 1}
\ParallelRText{2nd lang paragraph 1}
\ParallelPar

\ParallelLText{1st lang paragraph 2}
\ParallelRText{2nd lang paragraph 2}
\ParallelPar

and so on...

For a long text it's boring, so I made my command \bi (for bilingual):

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\newcommand{\bi}[2]{\selectlanguage{1st lang}\ParallelLText{#1}%
\selectlanguage{2nd lang}\ParallelRText{#2}%
\ParallelPar}

and in document I write inside parallel environment:

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\bi{1st lang title}{2nd lang title}
\bi{1st lang paragraph 1}{2nd lang paragraph 1}
\bi{1st lang paragraph 2}{2nd lang paragraph 2}

and so on...

Obviously, in preamble I use \usepackage[1st lang,2nd lang]{babel}, too,
for correct hyphenation and other stuff.

Hope it helps.

Regards
Pietro