[OS X TeX] Kanbun (漢文) and French...

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

I am looking for the (relatively) simplest way to typeset a French  
booklet (~50 pages) about kanbun.

There are basically 5 parts. The first is all in French (preface etc).  
The second is in French and comes with numerous examples in kanbun.  
The layout is:

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explanations
(col 1) transcription and translation
(col 2) kanbun example
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Then there is an all French part (transcriptions and translations),  
and an all kanbun part (texts transcribed and translated in the third  
part). The last part is a series of short biographical notices for the  
studied text authors.

The booklet itself was created on a typewriter in 85 and all the  
kanbun is hand-written.

With a proper typesetting environment it should be possible to mix  
more kanbun/Japanese in the French text and considerably prettify the  
whole thing.

I've spend pretty much all of yesterday looking for a solution, but  
since I am not a user of TeX/LateX I was a little lost. What I  
understood though was that the kanbun part was the most complex, and  
that is the part I really do not want to mess.

Any suggestion ?

Jean-Christophe Helary