: InDesign - Create document from two text files side by side I'm quite new to indesign so please forgive me if the title makes no sense or if the following terminology is wrong or if the

@Speyer780

The easiest way to keep the text styling the same is to use the same paragraph style on both sets of text.

The only way to force line-to-line alignment across a spread is if your "spread" is actually one horizontal page made of an enormous two-column table, and each pair of lines is one row in the table. This is not workable if you're doing anything more than a few poems, so I don't recommend it.

To keep text on left and right, you have your left pages with Language 1, with text flowing to the next left-hand page, and your right pages with Language 2. Your copy shouldn't have both languages mixed together; one story should be all Language one and the other should be a Language 2.

Practically speaking, your translations are likely to be different lengths between languages at some point, so you're just going to have to keep an eye on everything manually and use some extra returns to bump lines to the next page occasionally.

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