Dear LaTeX experts,

I'm a linguist. I'm working on a LaTeX-formatted book in which two versions of the same text will be displayed in two columns alongside each other: the original French text, and the English translation (for the sake of comparison). Here's the problem:

Since the French and English paragraphs may be very different lengths (due to translation), I want to have each paragraph of the text begin at the same height on the page, and so on for the proceeding paragraphs. I'm not sure how to achieve this in LaTeX using anything other than a table; I could use a table, but then the table would have to be hundreds of pages long. Are there any tricks I could use to achieve this? Here's a diagram of what I want the formatting to look like, hopefully it isn't too patronising:

Any help would be most appreciated ✨

Hi everyone,

I've been working on an Overleaf alternative called CorTeX:

https://cortex.borca.ai

The main goal is to provide a fast, browser-based LaTeX editing experience while still supporting tools that are difficult to run entirely in WebAssembly.

Current features include:

• pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaLaTeX support
• A WebAssembly-based TeX engine that runs in the browser
• Incremental compilation
• Hybrid client/server compilation: tools such as Biber and xindy run on the server, and the results are returned to the browser
• Monaco Editor with decent language-server support
• Real-time collaborative editing
• Collaborator invitations, reviews, and comments
• Version control
• Conference and journal templates
• Paste images directly into a document
• Project-wide search and replace
• Markdown editing with Mermaid support
• Automatic synchronization between positions in the LaTeX source and the generated PDF
• An LLM-based assistant for LaTeX writing and editing

It is still under active development, so I’d appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or suggestions.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think. I'm actively developing CorTeX and are very open to suggestions, so if you have ideas for improvements or features you'd like to see, I'll seriously consider incorporating them.

[FYI] The WASM-based TeX engine is open source and available here: https://github.com/corca-ai/wasmtex