I hope you can help me...
I would like to realize a project to typeset a book with LaTeX which satisfies the following properties.
Think of the opened book: On the left side of the two pages I would write regular text (maybe with line numbers) and on the right side there should be remarks and comments related to the text on the left side referenced to the line numbers.
Has anyone some experience with this kind of typesetting?
This is based on Print odd and even pages
The content will always start on odd pages, with or without comments. No need to use \newpage or \clearpage to go to next odd page.
In the same way, the comments will go on even pages.
You have to fill page by page, alternating content and comments to keep them in sync.
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
% From https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/455318/161015
\newinsert\instructornoteinsert
\skip\instructornoteinsert=0pt
\AtBeginDocument{\dimen\instructornoteinsert=\vsize}
\count\instructornoteinsert=0
\showboxdepth=\maxdimen
\showboxbreadth=\maxdimen
\makeatletter
\output\expandafter{\the\output
\ifodd\value{page}\else
\setbox\@outputbox\vbox to\vsize{\unvbox\instructornoteinsert\vfil}%
\@outputpage
\fi
}
\newcommand{\comments}[1]{%
\insert\instructornoteinsert{%
\normalfont
\interlinepenalty0
\splittopskip0pt
\splitmaxdepth\dp\strutbox
\floatingpenalty0
\hsize\columnwidth
\@parboxrestore
#1%
\@finalstrut\strutbox
}%
}
\makeatother
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\textbf{Here is content 1, 2 and 3.}\bigskip
1. \kant[1]
2. \kant[2]
3. \kant[3]
\comments{\textbf{Long comment with line breaks to 1, 2 and 3.}\bigskip
11. \kant[11]
12. \kant[12]
}
\textbf{Here is more content: 4 and 5.}\bigskip
4. \kant[4]
5. \kant[5]
\comments{\textbf{More long comment with line breaks to 4 and 5.}\bigskip
13. \kant[13]
14. \kant[14]
}
\end{document}
Try the \reledpar` package. This was originally designed for critical or bi-lingual documents where on even pages would be the text in the first language and on the adjacent odd pages the (same) text would be in the second language.
By suitable planning you could have your main text on the even pages and corresponding notes and comments on the adjacent facing pages.
Read the first 25 pages of the user manual to see what facilities it offers.
One solution with lineno:
\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,parskip}
\usepackage{lineno}
\def\markref#1{\par\makebox[2em][r]{\lineref{#1})\quad}\hangindent2em}
\begin{document}
(Odd page with nothing of interest)
\newpage % right even page for contents
\linenumbers
\linelabel{foo}\lipsum[1]\par
\linelabel{bah}\lipsum[2][1-3]
\linelabel{baz}\lipsum[2][4-9]
\par\nolinenumbers
\newpage % Left odd page for comments
\markref{foo} This is a comment for {\em Lore ipsum}. \lipsum[3][1-4]
\markref{bah} This is a remark about {\em Nam dui ligula}. lipsum[4][1-4]
\markref{baz} This is a comment for {\em Donet aliquet}. \lipsum[5][1-4]
\end{document}
