Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

Hallo Russel,


> I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed  
> side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may  
> compare the two files.
>
> The problem is that each file spans several pages; so the left column of  
> each page must be a continuation of the left column of the previous  
> page, and the right column of each page must be a continuation of the  
> right column of the previous page.
>
> Can this be done in LaTeX? perhaps with the minipage environment?

I would do it in a longtable-environment in which I put a paragraph in
a cell.

Regards
Johann
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