fozzy@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) (03/11/91)
I have a question for the experts... 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. If this is unclear I'd be willing to explain it in more detail to anyone who may be able to help. I'm relatively new to tex so any help will be appreaciated. thanx in advance.
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/11/91)
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
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