: 2 column text frame different text in each column? In indesign I regularly make a 2 language magazine in 2 columns. Now the 2 columns are 2 different text boxes on each page that I link so

@Holmes874

Just in case you want page-wide footnotes altough text is in half page-wide colums, do the following


make two page-wide overlapping textboxes, say A and B
remove any text wrap-around aspirations from A and B
put A to have half page right indent and B to have half page left indent
Place your different language texts into A and B
Add footnotes, if not included already
Insert extra lines to avoid overlapping footnotes
format manually A and B footnotes to look out different enough, maybe also to have different character strings in the beginning for easy visual difference


Text placing by autoflow creates a mess. You must point the starting place for each page manually. To make that easier, shift temporarily the textboxes or make them over wide and to have also narrow other side indent.

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