From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: multilingual presentation with org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:39 -0500 Message-ID: <9192.1329343299@alphaville> References: <4859.1329311301@alphaville> <8196.1329335383@alphaville> <8912.1329339888@alphaville> <81pqdfepj8.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxmv1-0005WJ-UB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxmv0-0003Oj-MI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:43 -0500 Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:44018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rxmv0-0003OW-CB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Jambunathan K of "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:18:43 +0530." <81pqdfepj8.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Jambunathan K 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.