Different Odd and Even Pages

[Nayan Ruparelia]

Hi,

I have a question that, for a beginner of Latex like me, is a bit
difficult; can you help me please:-

I want to layout a book with Sanskrit verses on the left pages of the
book and the English translations on the right pages of the book. Do you
know how I would be able to do this? I was thinking that I could change
the Section style on memoir so that one section style used Sanskrit and
only used even pages whilst another section style, for English, only
used the odd pages. Will this work? Or would I need to use other
features of Latex instead of the Memoir class?

Your help would be most appreciated.

Regards,

Nayan.

[zappathustra]

Doing it by hand is technically very hard. Fortunately, there exists a
package designed just for that:
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=parallel

Best,

Paul

[Nayan Ruparelia]

Many thanks, Paul. It looks like the best solution. Do you have an
example document, by any chance, that I could use as a sort of template?

Regards,

Nayan.

[jon]

On May 25, 12:01 pm, Nayan Ruparelia <"nayan{dot}ruparelia <AT> wrote:

> I want to layout a book with Sanskrit verses on the left pages of the
> book and the English translations on the right pages of the book. Do you
> know how I would be able to do this? I was thinking that I could change
> the Section style on memoir so that one section style used Sanskrit and
> only used even pages whilst another section style, for English, only
> used the odd pages. Will this work? Or would I need to use other
> features of Latex instead of the Memoir class?

you should take a look at ledpar, which, i think, requires ledmac.
ledmac is for typesetting critical edition stuff, while ledpar is for
facing-page translation stuff. they were written by the author of the
memoir class, so they mesh well.

cheers,
jon.

[zappathustra]

> > Paul- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -
>
> - Afficher le texte des messages précédents -

I've no template, since I've never used the package. You should look
at the documentations of both parallel and ledpar, compare, try and
choose. If I were to decide, I'd choose ledpar, only because if Peter
Wilson made it, it's probably pretty good and complete, while parallel
is a (5 year old) beta-version, but the latter might also be simpler.

More generally, I'd recommend you to always give a look at CTAN
(http://www.ctan.org/), whenever you encounter such a problem; that's
the place where most issues are solved (and where I solved yours in
the previous message).

Best,
Paul

[buyoni...@bluebottle.com]

Easier said than done. I see no obvious connection between the OP's
problem and critical editions. If the OP doesn't happen to stumble
across the -parallel- keyword, how could he discover the utility of
Ledmac/Ledpar while Ctan browsing. I think comp.text.tex is a more
reasonable first stop, as supported by insights your reply gave which
favor Ledpar (i.e. these insights are unavailable during ctan browsing
and may well save the OP time/headaches).

I agree that Ctan is the promised land, but you still need a roadmap.

[Nayan Ruparelia]

Thanks, Jon.