Re: [libreoffice-users] parallel text in side by side pages

Dan,
If I place 1000 words in the left page, the words are still going to overflow onto the right page - 
I am not sure what your idea is actually accomplishing.


> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/14/2014 12:15 PM, Marc Grober wrote:
> > Is there is technical solution to running parallel text in side by side
> > pages (the best example would be a text with a translation where you
> > have the original on one page and the translation on the facing page.
> > This is done easily enough in columns, but there must be some way to
> > pass two threads of raw text to a section in which one thread is passed
> > only to odd pages and the other only to even pages,  or are we stuck
> > with alternating the text manually and inserting a gazillion page breaks?
>     I think that page styles will do it. Open an untitled document in Writer. Use the F4 key to 
> open the Styles and Formating Window. Click the "Page Styles" icon at the top of this window. 
> Double click "First Page" from the lists of page styles to apply this style to the page. Then 
> right click "First Page" and select Modify from the context menu. Change the "Next Style" 
> property to "Left Page". Click OK.
>     This should do it. Enter the original text on the left pages and the translations on the 
> right pages.
>     The reason this works is because of styles. They insure that each left page is followed by a 
> right page which is followed by a left page... Writer is designed to begin with the first page on 
> the right, so you need the "First Page" to fulfill this need. From then on the left and right 
> pages will follow correctly. (No page breaks are needed.)
>     In the bottom right corner of the Writer window are three icons of pages. The one of the 
> right is the one you should click if it is not highlighted. This places two pages in the window 
> beginning with a right page first followed by a left right page combination.
>
> Dan
>
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