For linguistics, there's also linguex, but since that doesn't support 3-line glosses by default (I think I hacked it back in for a project I was doing), I didn't mention it. But the main feature of linguex is that it doesn't require you to explicitly begin and end an example environment.
-Andy On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 15:32, Alan Munn <am...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: > >> James Crippen wrote:> >>> >>> 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. >> >> This looks nice. Is there a reason why it's not on CTAN? > > > I think it's officially still beta (although many are using it.) John will > put it up on CTAN when it's relatively unchanging in terms of actual > features and functionality. > > I would also recommend it for Adam's requirements, since it would probably > allow for easy line numbering as well. > > With respect to gb4e (actually the relevant part is cgloss4e, which is > loaded by gb4e) I would generally recommend gb4e over covington, since > covington doesn't interact nicely with various things. However, if you are > using gb4e, make sure you turn off the \automath function, which allows you > to use _ and ^ in text mode by changing their catcodes. This causes many > things to break if you don't know what you're doing, and it induces a > particularly nasty interaction with fontspec. > > Alan > > > -- > Alan Munn > am...@gmx.com > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
