Text Formatting ⇒ Side-by-Side Bilingual Reader

[Timothy]

I would like to create a book with the left page in one language (possibly RTL) and the corresponding text in another language (i.e. English) on the right page.

I imagine using something like

\begin{LangA} Text in LangA to be displayed on left page. \end{LangA}
\begin{LangB} Text in LangB to be displayed on right page. \end{LangB}
\begin{LangA} More text in LangA to be displayed on left page. \end{LangA}
\begin{LangB} More text in LangB to be displayed on right page. \end{LangB}

Do you have any advice as to how this can be done?

[Juanjo]

Try the parallel package. For parallel columns of text in the same page, you may also consider the parcolumns package.

[Timothy]

The parallel package worked great. I also found I needed some other packages for handling fonts, unicode characters, and bidirectional text.

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\usepackage{parallel}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\usepackage{bidi}
 
 
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