Independent columns in Apple Pages 5.0

Is it possible to set two independent columns in Apple pages, so that the text in the left column continues in the left column of the next page and not in the right column. And the text of the right column continues in the right column of the next one.

What I'm trying to do is to have some text and its translation, side by side.

Solution 1:

You could accomplish this by creating a Page Layout document. On the first page, create two side-by-side Text Boxes. Before typing, duplicate the page (control-click on the page thumbnail to the left of the editing area). Then, link each text box to its corresponding text box on the next page.

To add additional pages, go to the last page and duplicate it, to avoid having to recreate the text boxes from scratch each time.

Solution 2:

A simple way of achieving this is to have a simple table, with 2 columns and 1 row. Set the borders to be empty/invisible/unset so that they do not show, and then put each language into their respective "side". This isn't a true column view, but the net effect should be the same and it should carry across page breaks fine.