Re: multilingual presentation with org

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Nick
> 
> What Brian is saying is this and I am interpreting.
> 
> There is a line by line correspondence between the two files. So,
> 
> 1. Put the English file under version control and check it in.
> 
> 2. Overwrite the English file with the Sanskrit file (remember to
>    preserve line by line correspondence) and check the sanskrit file in.
> 
> 3. Now do a C-x v u to launch ediff on the two versions of the file. Two
>    windows will pop up and IIRC, you can arrange for the windows to be
>    either arranged side by side or one on top of another.
> 
> 4. Press q on Ediff control panel so that diff overlays are removed
>    while leaving the windows intact.
> 

I don't understand what the first four steps do for you.

> 5. Now do M-x scroll-all-mode so that the two windows scroll
>    together. Cursor position in the two windows can be used to guiding
>    the eyeballs of the audience.
> 

All you need for this is two side-by-side windows with the two files and
scroll-all-mode[fn:1]. Ediff (and source control) is irrelevant -
correct?

If only hl-line-highlight played well with scroll-all-mode...

> An advanced option will be to siphon off each stanza in the recital in
> to separate files of their own and put the sanskrit and english files in
> separate directories (but with the same name) as below.
> 
> english/stanza1
> english/stanza2
> 
> sanskrit/stanza1
> sanskrit/stanza2
> 
> Then one can do M-x ediff-directories to have all the stanzas show up
> and then launch ediff on each of the stanzas.
> 

I might try this to see how it works but it'd take more time than I can
afford right now.

Thanks,
Nick

Footnotes:

[fn:1] I was looking for that and didn't find it - thanks for pointing
       it out. I thought at first that follow-mode was what was needed,
       but that wasn't it.