Re: [libreoffice-users] Two parallel text flows in one document possible?

Hi Harvey,

Good point! That is an another good reason for doing the columns of the page(s) as table columns: 
It simplifies selecting a column as a syntactic field. I never thought about that, and appreciate 
you generalizing the solution in that way, which is an interesting variation on style management.

Thanks,
John


On 2021-04-16 16:23, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> I just klick on the top of the one column to select the content of the
> whole column. Then go to Tools > Language > For Selection and select
> the language to be checked for that column.
>
>
> On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 07:45 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
> > Sorry, but I was hoping you would ask HOW the spell-check language is
> > set separately on each column.
> > [I hate it when someone says "Of course" on an issue I don't see.] ;-
> > )
> > Since you grasped it immediately, I'm afraid I must ask one of you:
> > How do you do that?
> >
> >
> > On 2021-04-15 14:22, Ulf Dunkel wrote:
> > > A two-column TABLE seems to be a very smart solution for this.
> > > Thank you, Harvey.
> > >
> > > - - - - -
> > >
> > > Am 15.04.21 um 12:09 schrieb Harvey Nimmo:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I sometimes have to translate documents. So that I can see the
> > > > relationship of the texts I put one language on the right and the
> > > > other
> > > > left on the page. For that I use a two-column table which works
> > > > quite
> > > > well. Not sure if that is the most elegant solution for what you
> > > > want.
> > > > Of course you can format each column as you want (e.g. with no
> > > > table
> > > > borders), and the spell-check language can be set separately on
> > > > each
> > > > column.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings
> > > > Harvey
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 11:42 +0200, Ulf Dunkel wrote:
> > > > > Hello everyone.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to write a book in German and English in parallel
> > > > > and
> > > > > let
> > > > > the German text flow on the left and the English text on the
> > > > > right,
> > > > > or
> > > > > two columns of German on the left and English on the right. Is
> > > > > that
> > > > > technically possible in LO Writer? I haven't found anything
> > > > > about it
> > > > > yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best, Ulf

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