The former. The trick is to get the page numbering right (for that see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/Print2Pages.htm, which explains how to
double-time numbers), but it is easier to do that than to try to repeat the
note numbering (unless you restart on each page); also, I would imagine that
you would need each half of the document to flow continuously from one page
to the other.

The main problem with this, related to the page numbering, is that you can't
generate an automatic TOC from calculated page numbers. What line you take
in this regard, however, depends a lot on whether you are sending the
publisher camera-ready copy, a manuscript, or an electronic document from
which the book can be printed directly. If the first, then your task is to
get the pages to look the way they should by any means necessary. If the
second, you let the publisher (and his typesetter) worry about all those
details. If the last, then you're in a heap o' trouble!

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Will" wrote in message
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Thank you. This is half way to a solution. But do you mean print out two
separate files of rectos and versos and send them to a publisher in that
form
(this is a book which has to go to a printer) or do you mean there is some
way within Word by which you can interleave text pages from two separate
files? If there is I should be glad to know how.
Will Ryan

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

By far the easiest way to approach this is to create two separate
documents,
one for the text and one for the translation, and interleave them.

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"Will" wrote in message
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I need to have continuous footnote numbering starting from 1 for a
text
appearing only on left-hand pages, and a separate sequence of
continuous
footnote numbering starting from 1 for the translation of the text on
the
facing pages. I am using Word 2002.