Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

I may be misunderstanding what you want to do, but you might be able to 
cheat a little by using a mix of Index and Paragraph Styles.

>     To Define Index Entries
>
>  1. Click in a word, or select the words in your document that you
>     want to use as an index entry.
>  2. Choose *Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Index Entry*, and
>     do one of the following:
>
>   * To change the text that appears in the index, type the text that
>     you want in the *Entry*box. The text that you type here does not
>     replace the selected text in the document.
>   * To add an index mark to similar words in your document, select
>     *Apply to all similar texts*.
>   * To add the entries to a custom index, click the *New User-defined
>     Index* icon, enter the name of the index, and then click *OK*.
Then...

>     To Apply a Different Paragraph Style to an Index Level
>
>  1. Right-click in the index or table of contents, and then choose
>     *Edit Index or Table of Contents*.
>  2. Click the *Styles* tab.
>  3. Click an index level in the *Levels* list.
>  4. Click the style that you want to apply in the *Paragraph Style* list.
>  5. Click the assign button *<*.
>  6. Click *OK*.
From: 
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Defining_Index_or_Table_of_Contents_Entries 
and 
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Formatting_an_Index_or_a_Table_of_Contents

Hope this helps.


On 6/8/2018 3:52 PM, John Jason Jordan 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?


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