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Article #10962Re: interesting file merge question
From: Avi Rappoport
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 18:52
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 18:52
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Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:
>In an article, <halam@ub.d.umn.edu> writes:
>"A friend of mine is typing a paper in French and would then
>translate it to English. After this she wants to combine the
>two files so that each line of French (in italics or some
>other style) will be followed by the corresponding
>translated English line, which would be in a different
>style. Sounds exciting!!
>Though Haseen Ibne Alam asks for e-mail, I thought others might face similar
>problems. I think this is definitely the place for MSW's "table" function,
>placing parallel sentences in cells side by side.
I did this with FileMaker. Much easier to use something field-based, could
probably even be done with Excel. This is not really a word processor kind
of task. But Le Chanson de Guillaume le Mareshal looked pretty good, and
could be exported to Word.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!fernwood!portal!apple!well!nilesinc From: nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: interesting file merge question Message-ID: <25512@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 18 Jun 91 18:52:18 GMT References: <6231@mindlink.bc.ca> Lines: 32