Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 12:52:08 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj@gmx.com> wrote:

> Linguists frequently need to write glosses. Here are a couple examples
> using Spanish as the source language and English as the language that
> the author is writing in:
>
> Todos     iremos       a   la                     playa.
> All.m.pl  go.1.pl.fut  to  the.art.sg.fem  beach
> 'We will all go to the beach.'
>
> Juan no     sabía                    qué    hacer.
> John neg.  know.1.sg.imperf  what  do.inf
> 'John didn't know what to do.'
>
> (Note that there are rules for how the gloss abbreviations are
> supposed to be abbreviated and used, and for the sake of simplicity
> in the above examples I did not always follow them rigorously.)
>
> Glosses are typically three lines, as in the above examples. Each
> component of the first two lines must be lined up. Here in e-mail I
> tried to do this with the space bar, but the results may not appear
> perfectly as I intended for all people on this list. They don't even
> appear lined up for me because I use a proportional font in my mail
> client.
>
> The only way I know to get this right is to use tabs, but the tab
> spacings have to be changed for each gloss. If you have a lot of
> glosses in your paper tabs will quickly become a serious pain.
>
> I searched the Help, but came up empty-handed. Any suggestions?

as far as I can see spaces would work fine in a monospaced font, why
not use one every time you need to insert a gloss?

d

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