interlinear word processing

[Birgitta Englund Dimitrova]

>
>Following Ben Rifkin's questions on good bibliography software and
>Russian spell checkers for the Macintosh, I would like to know if anyone
>knows of any interlinear word processor for the Mac (to produce and print
>bilingual annotated text where your annotations neatly align--vertically--
>with the words of the primary text)?

The software syncWriter will do just this.  It allows you to write as many
synchronized tracks as you like, with as many synchronization points as you
like.  You can always insert more tracks, and more synchronization points.
This can be used for the purpose you mention, but also for more complicated
tasks, like transcriptions of conversations with several people, where you
can assign multiple tracks to each person: e g one track for an utterance
in Russian, another one for grammatical analysis according to your own
fancy,  yet another one for translation of utterance into English, for
prosody markers, for description of body language,  and so on.  And if
people speak simultaneously, as they do in natural discourse, this can also
be handled of course, just add more tracks.

It=B4s been developed by med-i-bit in Hamburg, Germany.  Email adress:
ger.xse0014 at applelink.apple.com

Good luck,
Birgitta


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Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, Stockholm University
S-106 91  Stockholm, Sweden
e-mail: Birgitta.Englund at tolk.su.se
Tel. + 46 8 16 14 83,  telefax + 46 8 16 13 96