AW: Linguistics Word Macros

Wed Nov 13 15:12:14 UTC 2013

It works *pretty* well, but you have to replace the ligatures (ff, fi, etc.).
Francesco

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Have you tried preparing it in LaTeX and then converting it to Word? I haven't done that in such a long while so I cannot remember what the result is like.

Joseph

On 13 November 2013 15:11, Kilu von Prince <prince at zas.gwz-berlin.de<mailto:prince at zas.gwz-berlin.de>> wrote:
Dear Don,

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.

Best,
Kilu

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Don Killian <donald.killian at helsinki.fi<mailto:donald.killian at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
Dear all,

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.

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.

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.

So, my question: are there any macros for linguists which could help speed up writing documents when you're using Word?  Particularly for glossing?

Thanks for any suggestions you can give!

Best,

Don

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