I guess I’m looking for a cheap Indesign. Is there any way in LO to have different facing pages? i.e. a main document with two subdocuments, one that runs on the left side pages only, the other running on the right side pages only. Page breaks in each on would be manual. (The is for a book like the Loeb Library series, Latin on left, English on right.)
Thanks.
A landscape page 2x size of the needed left / right pages; a table with two columns on that landscape page; Latin in the left column, English on the right?
Good idea. I’ll try this. Thanks
Mark
I’ll look at it.Thanks.
Mark
Using two groups of linked text frames, the frames of one language on the left pages and those of the other on the right. Read chapter 6 of the Writer’s guide for more information
I wouldn’t recommend this track here because
- it is then extremely difficult to synchronise both flows,
- you must anchor your frames To page, which in fact make LO behave as a surrogate DTP application (you must manually pre-allocate your pages in order to anchor your frames)
When you have a translation in the facing page, you usually want to line up corresponding paragraphs. This is easy to do in a table. If you go for frames, I fear you must allocate as many frames as paragraphs. So, better to use a dedicated DTP program.
Sounds like maybe more than I can manage, but thanks anyway.
Mark