X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["790" "Thu" "24" "September" "92" "22:28:42" "CET" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "24" "parallel columns" "^Date:" nil nil "9"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA23425; Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:49:33 +0200 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA02636; Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:49:19 +0200 Message-Id: <9209242049.AA02636@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6150; Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:44:28 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6135; Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:44:24 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6133; Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:44:22 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 22:28:42 CET From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: parallel columns Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 792 > Any prospect of a LaTeX environment for handling parallel > columns (e.g. to show similarities and differences, paragraph > by paragraph, between tow or more texts), spread over two pages > or more? i would like to give the question back: 1) what type of constructs should be supported? and 2) has anybody a good idea on how to specify such constructs? beside the fact that such a job is very difficult to program in tex i judge the question of a good syntax even higher. some time ago (i think on the german tex list) somebody asked for laying out plays. finding a good input syntax for such tasks should be the first goal to reach. i'm convinced that once that is done one could come up with an implementation. so perhap this would be another task for the volunteer list? frank