[*group, facing, left]
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"Wenn das so ist", sagte er mit heiserer Stimme, "dann hat Niemand mich gehört, und Niemand ist zu mir gekommen, und Niemand redet mit mir in meiner letzten Stunde."
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[*group, facing, right]
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“If that’s the case,” he said, “then Nobody has heard me and Nobody has come to me, and Nobody is speaking to me in my last hour.”
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Block groups
She saw the pirates clustered about a great fire outside the ruins, and her heart leaped as a group emerged from the interior dragging some object she knew was Conan. They propped him against the wall, still evidently bound fast, and there ensued a long discussion, with much brandishing of weapons.
Block groups are a simple way to link different groups so that the content can be rendered in the same template. Some examples of use might be text in a foreign language with facing translation or the side-by-side comparison between two versions of some source code.
Definition
TODO blockdef!
You can assign a block to a group using the arguments [*group, NAME, POSITION], where NAME is the name of the group and POSITION is the position of the block in it.
Mau source
In this example, both blocks belong to the group facing, the first one in position left and the second in position right. Bear in mind that positions are just names, and do not hold any specific spatial meaning. The above example might have used positions German and English just as well.
Rendering the group
Blocks in a group are stored by Mau and removed from the document, just like it does for footnotes. The group GROUPNAME can be rendered with the command ::blockgroup:GROUPNAME. For example
Mau source
::blockgroup:facing
would render the blocks defined above.
All the blocks of the groups are then available to the template of the blockgroup command and can be rendered according to the need. This will be explained in depth in the chapter about templates TODO.