Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Dual language documents Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 10:57:20 GMT References: <1991Mar11.034837.20478@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 22 In-reply-to: fozzy@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au's message of 11 Mar 91 03:48:37 GMT In article <1991Mar11.034837.20478@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au> fozzy@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) writes: A friend of mine is getting married and his fiancee speaks Spanish. They've asked me to print up the order of service, what I'm after is some way of printing it up with the two languages side-by-side. The other minor hassle is that there will be sections that need to be horizontally aligned. Without knowing more about your setup, its not easy to answer. If it were me, I would a) probably not do it in TeX at all (I'd feel inclined to use Illustrator), but if I did b) use LaTeX's tabular mode to get the horizontal alignments right, and have two justified columns using '\begin{tabular}{*{p{.45\textwidth}}}'. Purists will find a more elegant way. You will also, of course, have to switch between hyphenation patterns, which is easy if you have a Spanish set. Unfortunately, I don't know of one! Does anyone have it? sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)