Re: Independent columns through the whole document

[Oliver Bandel]

Hello David,

thanks for your idea and code :-)


Zitat von address@hidden (Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:30:17 -0500)

> Oliver,
>
> In reply to this:
>
> > > I want to have the following: a document that contains
> > > two *independent* columns, where each of those columns
> > > is going through the whole (multi-paged) document.
> >
> > > There reason for this is:
> > > I want to have one text as the original, layoutet in the first column.
> > > The second column is to be intended as a "comment-column" (or one
> > > also could use it as a
> > > column with the translation of the "original column".
> >
> > > How to achieve that?  This should be easy in lout?!?
>
> And Jeff's comments:
>
> > There is nothing in the current Lout packages which supports two
> > independent columns of text through the document.  You could
> > become an expert and modify the basic package so that the
> > @Text galley becomes two galleys, @TextA and @TextB, targeted
> > at separate columns of the page.
>
> I wonder if this definition would do what you want:
>
> import @BasicSetup
> def @twocol left x right y
> {
> 3i @Wide{x} ||0.2i 3i @Wide{y}
> }
>
> In your document, you'd use it like this:
[...]

Nice idea, thanks.

But from the logic of typing (from the structure of what (how it)  
needs to be typed),
the way with Margin Notes looks matching better to what I had in mind.


Ciao,
   Oliver