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Re: interesting file merge question

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From: Avi Rappoport
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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