<div dir="ltr">Dear Don,<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">as a (Xe)LaTeX user, I frequently encounter the same problem. To my knowledge, there is no truly efficient way to typeset glossed examples in Word, but at least you can use tables with invisible borders and optimal width to make sure that your examples won't completely blow up every time you open the document.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,</div><div class="gmail_extra">Kilu</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Don Killian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donald.killian@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">donald.killian@helsinki.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
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I'm currently working on an article where the required formatting is in Word, a program I'm not very used to at this point.<br>
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I typically use LaTeX, a word processing program which has automated features for citations, glosses, references, table of contents, etc. Once you get used to everything done automatically, the idea of going back to doing everything manually is definitely not appealing.<br>
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Some of these can be handled in Word, such as the table of contents, but I admit that glossing is one area where I don't have any idea if it's possible to automate, and I'm reluctant to do everything manually. Changing the font or size can destroy layouts if you use manual tabs, and I know plenty of people who have spent immense amounts of time tweaking documents simply due to formatting issues.<br>
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So, my question: are there any macros for linguists which could help speed up writing documents when you're using Word? Particularly for glossing?<br>
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Thanks for any suggestions you can give!<br>
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Best,<br>
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Don<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Don Killian<br>
Researcher in African Linguistics<br>
Department of Modern Languages<br>
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