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Basically, the project I'm working on is a bilingual book, containing both text and music, with one language on even pages and the other language on odd pages. Since some of the music will span multiple pages, and there's a sort of pre-compiler that determines the layout of the music, I cannot simply use page breaks and alternate languages in the source file.

I do have a solution, but it's very ugly. It would essentially involve separate source files for the two languages, where I command the margins to print 2\thepage and 2\thepage+1 in the two files, and then interleave them at the end.

Does anybody know of a LaTeX package or macro that would do this more elegantly?

In case it matters, I'm using gregorio and lilypond-book for the music, and lualatex for the final compilation.

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  • You may be interested in Syncing text on bilingual pages.
    – Sean Allred
    Apr 29, 2015 at 0:06
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    The method with two documents is not ugly. You may automatize the interleaving of pages using xr package (to mark the pages to synchronize) and pdfpages package (to extract pages from each document).
    – Paul Gaborit
    Apr 29, 2015 at 0:07
  • I'd personally be interested in what kind of input syntax this would have with a hypothetical one-file document.
    – Sean Allred
    Apr 29, 2015 at 0:09

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