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I'm writing a linguistics paper that uses a large amount of linguistic examples from a wide variety oflanguages, using the gb4e package. I want to be able to label each example with information about thelanguage it comes from, as I've seen in some texts, sort of like this:

Language (family, citation, etc.)

(1) example text

glosses

'translation'

gb4e is great at formatting the examples themselves, but I can't seem to get the label placed where Iwant it, that is, placed immediately before the example and without an indent. Here's some examplecode:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{gb4e}

\usepackage{lipsum}

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\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})

\begin{exe}

\ex \gll J\'anos h\'aza\\

John house.his\\

\glt `John's house'

\end{exe}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

If the label text is outside the exe environment, it's treated like a regular paragraph, but if I try to put itinside, it gives me an error. How can I make it look the way I want? I've looked at other packages thatdo numbered examples, but they don't seem to have solutions either, and they also don't have thesame functionality as gb4e that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

{linguistics } {gb4e} {cgloss4e}

share improve this question edited Nov 16 '13 at 5:26 asked Mar 27 '12 at 2:22

1 I have edited your question to include lipsum package for introducing dummy text for better readability andfocus, you can also use egreg's kantlipsum package for the same purpose. Please rollback if this is notdesired. percusse Mar 27 '12 at 3:19

Didn't even know those existed. Thank you! Garrett Mar 27 '12 at 14:07

If you use Alexis Dimitriadis' version of cgloss4e available here as cgloss.sty you can put

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language information right aligned with the first line of the example. This is IMO a very nice way toformat such information, and quite common in the field:


\usepackage{gb4e}

\usepackage{cgloss}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\begin{exe}


John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})

\glt `John's house'

\end{exe}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Solution also works with linguex

Another popular package for formatting linguistic examples is the linguex package. Since linguex also uses cgloss4e , the solution given above will also work. Here's the same example

using the linguex commands:


\usepackage{linguex}

\usepackage{cgloss}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\exg.

J\'anos h\'aza\\

John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})

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Alan Munn92k 14 245 403

\glt `John's house'

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

share improve this answer edited Aug 28 '13 at 21:37 answered Mar 27 '12 at 3:48

That does look nice. Does cgloss4e otherwise work the same as gb4e? I noticed it's not included in Texlive. Garrett Mar 27 '12 at 14:11

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cbowern96 4

cgloss4e not for gb4e itself. But yes, it works identically as far as I know. I'm not sure why Alexis hasnever put it up on CTAN. Alan Munn Mar 27 '12 at 14:16

1 So if I load cgloss , does it automatically replace cgloss4e ? Also, should it be loaded before or aftergb4e ? I've discovered that gb4e usually needs to be loaded last or it causes problems. Garrett Mar

27 '12 at 14:23

1 Yes. You should load it after gb4e . And yes, gb4e should be loaded almost last since it messes with thecategory codes of _ and ^ . Alan Munn Mar 27 '12 at 14:27

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You can also just put the language label between the \ex and \gll commands:

\begin{exe}

\ex Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference}) \gll J\'anos h\'aza\\

John house.his\\

\glt `John's house'

\end{exe}

share improve this answer answered Oct 23 '13 at 14:50

3

Here's a (rather ugly) solution by wrapping the language label in an un-numbered example via \sn :

\newcommand\langlabel[1]{\sn\hspace*{-\leftmargin}{#1}\\[-1em]}

...

\begin{exe}

\langlabel{Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})}


John house.his\\

\glt `John's house'

\end{exe}

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LianTze Lim4,211 1 15 29

share improve this answer edited Mar 27 '12 at 4:03 answered Mar 27 '12 at 3:35

2

I realize this is an old question, but for posterity's sake, I thought I'd point out that expex providesseveral ways to include language name or other example annotations.

Right-aligned, on first gloss line

This is the format suggested in the answer by @Alan Munn:

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Explanation

Use \rightcomment{} between \gla and the first word. See section 11.2 of the expexdocumentation.

Code


\usepackage{expex}

\lingset{everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\ex

\begingl

\gla\rightcomment{Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})}J\'anos h\'aza//

\glb John house.his//

\glft `John's house'//

\endgl

\xe

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Within example, above gloss lines


This is the format suggested in the answer by @cbowern:

Explanation

Use \glpreamble to introduce the preamble line above the first gloss line. Formatting of the glosspreamble line can be controlled globally or locally by the parameter everyglpreamble . The verticalspace between the gloss preamble and the first gloss line can be controlled by the parameter belowglpreambleskip . See section 9 of the expex documentation.

Code


\usepackage{expex}

\lingset{everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\ex

\begingl

\glpreamble Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})//

\gla J\'anos h\'aza //


\glft `John's house' //

\endgl

\xe


\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Left-aligned, above the example

This is the format suggested in the original question:

Explanation

expex doesn't provide a special command for this format, but it's still pretty simple to produce. Thecode below creates a command \langlabel that removes the paragraph indent and adds thevertical space that normally appears above examples. It then uses \ex~ instead of \ex so thatthere is no vertical space between the label and the example.

By default, example numbers produced by expex are flush with the left margin (unlike in gb4e ,where they are indented). If you want to indent the example numbers in expex , use the parameter numoffset . See sections 4 and 5 of the expex documentation.

Code


\usepackage{expex}

\newlength{\aboveexskip} % creates a length \aboveexskip

\setlength{\aboveexskip}{2.7ex plus .4ex minus .4ex} % sets a value for \aboveexskip (this the default value for vertical space above examples taken from the expex documentation)

\lingset{aboveexskip=\aboveexskip, everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting, aboveexskip=\aboveexskip sets the expex parameter aboveexskip to the length specified in the line above

\newcommand{\langlabel}[1]{\vspace{\aboveexskip}\noindent{#1}} % \aboveexskip is used here because \ex~ will remove the vertical spacing above the example


Jason Zentz1,227 3 19

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\langlabel{Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})}

\ex~ % use the ~ version with \langlabel unless you want vertical space between the label and the example

\begingl

\gla J\'anos h\'aza //


\glft `John's house' //

\endgl

\xe

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

share improve this answer edited Nov 14 '14 at 15:38 answered Nov 10 '14 at 15:28

1

Whilst this doesn't answer the OP's specific question, it relates to the same issue as in the questiontitle.

If you use linguex then I think the best solution is to simply place the \hfill Language infoafter the translation line, which of course aligns your language info to the last line of your glossedexample, but this avoids far worse problems.


\usepackage{linguex}

\begin{document}

\exg. Gianni teme questo.\\

Gianni fears this\\

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Laua31 5

`Gianni fears this' \hfill Experiencer subjects

\end{document}

Which looks like this:

The problem with all of the above solutions for people who already use linguex is that

1. you have to modify linguex.sty as per Daniel Bring's response above and/or download andinstall cgloss as all the previous answers suggest, and more importantly

2. you'll have to modify the way you write ALL your linguex glossed examples to include \glt atthe beginning of the translation line. I use \exg. all the time and don't always need extra inforight aligned alongside it so I don't want to re-write all of my examples according to what the cgloss package requires.

share improve this answer answered Feb 23 at 16:48

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If you're using linguex , you might encounter an error if you use Alan's method from answer #1above. I had to replace l.361--63 of linguex.sty ,...

\def\gl@stop{{\hskip -\glossglue}\unhbox\gline\end{flushleft}%

\global\glossfalse%

\ifindex\expandafter\lookforwords\fi {} }

...with the following:

\def\gl@stop{{\hskip -\glossglue}\unhbox\gline\leavevmode \egroup

\global\glossfalse%

\ifindex\expandafter\lookforwords\fi {} }

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Torbjrn T.50k 4 99 177

Daniel Bring1

The reason was that cgloss redefines \gl@stop , but then linguex re-re-defines it. The changesabove avoid that problem by combining both re-definitions.

In addition, replace line 34 in linguex.sty ...

\RequirePackage{xspace,cgloss4e}

...by...

\RequirePackage{xspace,cgloss}

...and linguex loads cgloss , so you don't have to call it seperately.

It works fine on my installation.

share improve this answer edited Jan 22 '14 at 15:18 answered Jan 22 '14 at 15:12

2 Welcome to TeX.sx! You can add highlighting of code by selecting it and hitting Ctrl + K (or click the buttonmarked {} above the answer field. Blocks are indented by four spaces, inline code placed betweenbackticks ( ` ). Torbjrn T. Jan 22 '14 at 15:30

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