Parallel Typesetting
Hello Groffers! I'm trying to see how much trouble it would be to typeset a bilingual text parallel by pages, as in, one language on the recto page, the other on the verso page, synchronized somehow by paragraph, preferably more or less automagically. I've searched the list already and came upon an interesting albeit two decade old message[1] that went unanswered as well as a much more recent thread[2] that deals with parallel typesetting with columns, on the same page, which is NOT what I'm looking for. Any ideas? Regards, Hendursaga [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2001-08/msg00032.html [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-09/msg00014.html
Re: Parallel Typesetting
> Here is a little proof-of-concept, built entirely with a few > ad-hoc macros and some hacks to account for font (mis-)encoding: It looks pretty swell for a PoC! Also, Mark Twain is a great satirist, I'll say that! > View the PDF in acroread with page display settings "Two-Up" > and "Show Cover Page During Two-Up". I use Evince and it has a nice dual page setting that worked well. With a little more macro magic, I would assume it wouldn't be too much trouble for both pages to have the same content for a portion of it, such as with an illustration, say, or a math equation. ~ Hendursaga
Re: Setting up repository for user macrosets
Hello Hans, > For a while I've been thinking of creating a github public repository with > user macrosets for groff. I was recently thinking of creating one of those "awesome lists" for *roff resources. I have quite a few tagged bookmarks to go through.. > I can check if the macrosets produces the expected output before pushing to > the repo. Manually, I presume? I'm not sure how easy / possible it would be to automate some / most of that, like in CI/CD. > Would that be a good idea? I think so! Go for it! Hendursaga
