I am typesetting a two column parallel poem written by some friends. The first few words on the left column are the words of the right column almost verbatim.
I want to create a visual play on that. So I want to have the first few word of every
line in a completely different type than the rest of the line. Say, Fraktur and Pallatino.
Despite having been using latex for many years I still strugle to mix font types, and I still get
confused by the terms "font face" and "font family". Most answers that I have found only
change from regular face to bold or italic. What I want is really to mix types more or less
ad libitum in a easy way,maybe with a newcommand
instance.
If it is more viable with XeLatex I do not mind.
To make it clearer I have allready some example of the poem in parallel columns like this,
using paracol
. Here I will "bold" the words that I would like
in a different type.
\begin{paracol}{2}
\poemtitle{Tiempos en pausa.}
\switchcolumn
\poemtitle{Tiempo.}
\switchcolumn
\begin{verse}
\textbf{Pausa que como hoyo negro }se traga todo. \\
\textbf{Todo} al mismo tiempo traga y al mismo tiempo vacía. \\
\textbf{Vacío} que abrasa y abraza. \\
\textbf{Abrazo} que devora y a su vez escupe y devuelve. \\
\end{verse}
\switchcolumn
\begin{verse}
Pausa que como hoyo negro \\
todo \\
vacía y \\
abraza. \\
\end{verse}
So, let us take these "bold" word and transform them to something really contrasting.