Hi Marcello,
As you say "this feature could be really interesting", but as far as I know, there are many issues to deal with, in order to print 2 columns on the same page with different languages (say : greek and latin). This is not only because of two languages (say : english and russian, or greek and german), but because such work needs some editing datas, like footnotes, or more complex type of single line footnotes. I'll give some samples in a few hours. I've written once to Maieul Rouquette (author of (xe)LaTeX and in charge or reledpar (http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/...) and reledmac (ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/reledmac/reledmac.pdf) LaTeX packages for asking him about complex "criticus apparatus" in edition issues for Classics. Pablo Rodriguez has a better knowledfge as me on these topics.
In fact, there is currently no strictly satisfying way to deal with different texts with ConTeXt on even and odd page (or on the same page with two columns), except if there is no need of footnotes (or criticus apparatus), because some mismatches between texts with the second page. But, there is possibly some solutions with XML and CTX (which I didn't try) ?
JP
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De: "Marcello Urgo"
À: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Envoyé: Samedi 22 Juillet 2017 19:14:03
Objet: Re: [NTG-context] TwoColumns in two different languages, with alternate text on even and odd page.
Dear Hans,
I am also intersted in this issue.
In the last years I am dealing with a multi-language technical lexicon.
Hence, different languages refer to different columns, and if the languages are three or four, then it is better to go with two pages side-by-side.
Nevertheless this seems a problem also in LaTeX redelpar (multiple columns are not supported).
I tried to manage it with \linetable but without success ( https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/380923/synchronise-data-spanning-ove... )
I think this feature could be really interesting because, according to my knowledge, ConTeXt is at present the best way to manage the publishing of XML data.
Hence, this could be a useful tool to publish large sets of data.
Thank you in advance
Marcello Urgo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Manufacturing and Production Systems Lab.
Mechanical Engineering Department
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Via La Masa, 1 - 20156 Milano
Phone +39 02 2399 8521
Fax +39 02 2399 8585
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