[sword-devel] The poor man's interlinear

Jonathan Marsden jmarsden at fastmail.fm
Fri Sep 7 01:00:01 MST 2012


On 09/07/2012 12:34 AM, David Haslam wrote:

> /One my friends recently asked:/
> 
> Do you know of any program that will load two text files (plain text or Word
> files) and display them interlinearly?
> 
> /Here's my reply:/
> 
> Not off hand, but here's an easy workaround using Excel.

That's a somewhat bizarre choice of software tool for text processing,
to my mind :)

In Linux or (I think) using a port of paste for Windows, try

  paste -d '\n' file1 file2

That's all it takes, and it works for as many filenames as you can fit
on one command line.

Jonathan




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