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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle page layout for a
software manual in English, French, and Spanish? I have done the
two-language-saddle-stitched-flip-it-over-and-read-it-in-Spanish thang
before, but never three languages.
Any hints? Is the simplest/best way to have the translations appear one
after another, front to back? If so, should I start page numbering over
with the beginning of each language? >>
The manual for my Sony answering machine puts one translation after the other
and does renumber the pages, but also follows each page number with a
superscripted letter indicating the language. The English pages are numbered,
1en, 2en, 3en, etc; then the Spanish section starts at 1e (for Espanol), 2e,
3e, etc.
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