Reply To: tips & scripts for bilingual bible

Johanna, there are three things, that can control the first baseline of a paragraph:

1. a table cell as David described
2. a new text frame
3. the first line of a para itself, with calculated space before

My first feeling is, that table cells aren’t flexible. So I vote probably for no. 3. This depends on how the verse is structered and if every new line is splitted with a return or Forced line break. Even, if everyhting has a return, I would try to package a verse in one para.

Then determine the “longest language” as the starting point and create different para styles as David suggested. But do it not manually: A script can calculate the starting point for the second language …

so far
Kai