Page Layout ⇒ Ledpar doesn't work

[samcan]

Hello,

I'm trying to use ledpar to typeset a book which includes a comparison the U.S.A.'s and C.S.A.'s respective constitutions. The idea is to have them side by side, each section aligned, so if one's section runs longer, there's a gap on the other side until the next section they have in common is shown. (Hopefully what I just wrote makes sense!) I'm trying to use ledpar...it may not work for my problem, but I'm at least trying to use it. However, I cannot get it to work.

Here's a minimal example that fails:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ledpar}

\begin{document}

\begin{pairs}
\begin{Leftside}
Test
\end{Leftside}

\begin{Rightside}
Test2
\end{Rightside}

\Columns
\end{pairs}

\end{document}

I've glanced at the manual, and I think it should work, yet it doesn't. Texmaker is throwing some errors regarding ledpar.sty, the style file. As the package is no longer maintained (and the last release was in 2008) should I find a different package to do what I want to do?

Thank you.

samcan

[localghost]

I suggest to use the parallel package which offers similar structures.


Best regards
Thorsten

[samcan]

Thank you for suggesting it localghost! ledpar has really good search engine rankings, I specifically had to add "-ledpar" to my search query to find other packages...I believe I've heard of parallel before, but I guess for some reason, I hadn't gotten it to work...I tried it just now, however, and at least with one paragraph in each column, parallel works.

Thanks again!