On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 20:57, Andy Lin <kir...@gmail.com> 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.
A newer and more flexible system is John Frampton’s expex. http://www.math.neu.edu/ling/tex/ It works quite well and is very well documented. It uses only TeX, but works fine in a LaTeX environment. Cheers, James -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex