Text Formatting ⇒ Formatting problems with verbatim and numbering

[mishaperez]

Hi!

I'm trying to typeset a book with an original text on the left page and its translation on the right page for a commented edition and as part of a doctoral thesis. After searching a lot of hours, I made it, but now I have other problem and I can't find any solution. The problem is that both texts are in verse, and I'd like the verses to be numbered, but whatever I do numbering always begins with the title as the first numbered line. The poem and it's translation are very long texts and I need an easy way to get them numbered and well build. I thought that using verbatim would help, but it doesn't look like. I also tried verse and listing, but it was even worst.

It's my first day with latex.I apologize for my bad understanding of latex terminology and for my faulty english.

Here the .tex:

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{book}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[L7x]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[pangram]{blindtext}
\usepackage{eledmac}
\usepackage{eledpar}
\maxhnotesX{0.4\textheight}

\date{}

\begin{document}

\large

\begin{titlepage}

\centering
	{\scshape\LARGE BLABLABLA\par}
	\vspace{1cm}
	{\scshape\Large BLEBLEBLE\par}
	\vspace{1.5cm}
	\vfill
	traducción de \par
	Ba Be Bi \textsc{}

	\vfill


\end{titlepage}

\begin{pages}

\begin{Leftside}

\pstart

\section*{\centering\LARGE BLABLABLA \\ \centering\small Blublublu \\ \\}


\begin{verbatim}


Bla ble bli blo blu
Ble Bli Blo Blu Bla
Bli Blo Blu Bla Ble

Bla ble bli blo blu
Ble Bli Blo Blu Bla
Bli Blo Blu Bla Ble


\end{verbatim}}


\blindtext[10]\footnoteAnomk
\blindtext[20]}
\pend

\end{Leftside}


\begin{Rightside}
\beginnumbering
\pstart

\section*{\centering\LARGE Ble Bli Blo \\ \centering\small Ta Te Ti To Tu \\ \\}


\begin {verbatim}


Bla ble bli blo blu
Ble Bli Blo Blu Bla
Bli Blo Blu Bla Ble

Bla ble bli blo blu
Ble Bli Blo Blu Bla
Bli Blo Blu Bla Ble


\end{verbatim}

\blindtext[16]\footnoteAmk
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{Rightside}
\Pages
\end{pages}
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

The very first error i get with your example is about the package eledmac, which is deprecated and substituted by reledmac. If this is your first day, you should realy use the most modern packages.

A few other errors follow, for example by setting up the sections the wrong way. If you want your sections to look always the same, define a new command.

[mishaperez]

Hi Johannes.

Thank you for your answer and your suggestions.Yes, it was my first serious day with latex. Today is my second.

I've substituted eledmac for reledmac, and now I'm reading the information about this package. It's great!
The order of sections? I don't know what error can it be. I'll try to research a bit more. Could that be the problem with numeration of verses? It seem like verbatim numerate everything in the page, and I just want it to numerate from a point, when poem begins.

[Johannes_B]

Verbatim and listings are for includong code fragments, like Java, C++ or even LaTeX. There is some magic behind it.

Packages reledmac/reledpar can number lines for you.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

An important point in LaTeX is, that we don't put a lot of formatting commands into the text. Maybe even no formatting command at all. It's not good to repeat formatting commands in each section heading. Instead, we define once that all sections shall be bold and large, maybe even centered.

There are packages for customizing things. For example, for this kind of heading I would use titlesec:

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{name=\section}{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\scshape\centering}{\thesection}{1em}{}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\centering}{}{0em}{}

For such subheadings, one may use the epigraph package:

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\usepackage{epigraph}
\renewcommand{\epigraphsize}{\small\bfseries}
\setlength{\epigraphrule}{0pt}
\setlength{\beforeepigraphskip}{-2ex}
\setlength{\afterepigraphskip}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\textflush}{center}
\renewcommand{\epigraphflush}{center}

Then you can write in your document:

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\section*{BLABLABLA}
\epigraph{Blublublu}{}

Full minimal example:

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[pangram]{blindtext}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{name=\section}{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\scshape\centering}
  {\thesection}{1em}{}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries\centering}{}{0em}{}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\renewcommand{\epigraphsize}{\small\bfseries}
\setlength{\epigraphrule}{0pt}
\setlength{\beforeepigraphskip}{-2ex}
\setlength{\afterepigraphskip}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\textflush}{center}
\renewcommand{\epigraphflush}{center}
\begin{document}
\section*{BLABLABLA}
\epigraph{Blublublu}{}
\blindtext
\end{document}

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It took me a bit of settings since your two-part heading is a bit unusual.

Stefan