Andy Lin wrote: > You can take a look at the gb4e package (or its predecessor > covington). It was designed for glosses in linguistics, but the > mechanism might suit your needs. It takes up to 3 lines of input, > reads the first word (or group) of each line, puts those in a box, > then reads the next word and puts those in a box... and so on. In this > way, long lines will break at the same word/group for all 3 lines. > > The way you could adapt it for your use is to enter the lines > normally, but group each of them with curly brackets. That will > prevent the package from separating it into individual words. For long > lines, make two groups, starting the second group where you want the > line break to occur. > > -Andy > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 22:18, Adam McCollum <acmccollum...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear list members, >> >> I have a formatting question. What I would like to do is give line by line >> three versions of a certain text (in this case, different recensions of the >> Gospel of Matthew in Ge'ez, i.e. classical Ethiopic). In a WYSIWYG program, >> I can of course just eyeball where the line breaks need to be and make them >> manually. The process is somewhat more complicated by the fact that I'd like >> to have each verse somewhat separated from other verses, and this means that >> when the verse extends more than one line, the breaks still have to coincide >> for each version. I'm not sure if I've done a good job explaining what I'm >> hoping to do, so I attach a PDF sample written in a WYSIWYG program. >> >> Many thanks in advance for any help!
I've used covington before with good results. The 'glosses' environment is useful for setting interlinear glosses, translations etc. I hadn't heard of the gb4e package Andy mentioned before, but it looks good, and seems to do the same thing with glosses. Covington can cope with RTL text too. Gareth. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
