Gloss My Gloss

A generator for interlinear glosses

This is an input/output generator for aligning linguistic interlinear gloss, for the purposes of conlanging. It is built with HTML and JavaScript with jQuery and runs in your browser at https://neonnaut.github.io/ There are several markup options for displaying on different websites.

Refer to the following documents:

https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php

https://kbmcgowan.github.io/blog/2009/02/28/css-interlinear-glosses.html

https://bdchauvette.net/leipzig.js/

Use

Make sure to provide at least three lines in the input, with your gloss on the second last line and your translation on the last. (ZBB can work with two). In this case your input would look like this:

Astra inclinant, sed non obligant.
star.ACC.PL incline.PRS.PTCP but NEG bind.3P.PRS.ACT.IND
"The stars incline us, they do not bind us."

Any additional lines must go above the gloss line. Any of these additional lines may be marked with the "Non alignable lines" textbox. For example, if we had the input:

太陽が東の空に昇る
taiyō ga higashi no sora ni noboru
/taijoː ŋa çiŋaɕi no soɾa nʲi noboɾɯᵝ/
sun SUBJECT east POSSESSIVE sky LOCATIVE rise
"The sun rises in the eastern sky."

Then "Non alignable lines" should have a "1" to indicate not to align the first line.

HTML table

When using the HTML markup method, provide the following CSS on your website to get the desired output:

.abbrv {
   cursor: help;
 }
.sc {
  font-variant: small-caps;
  font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums;
  text-transform: lowercase;
}
table {
  overflow: auto;
}
table tr {
  white-space: nowrap;
}
table tr td {
  padding-right: 3px;
}

If you wish to style anything, such as use italics or bold, you may enter HTML tags on an individual word. If you wish to style an entire line, the best way is to add a class to the <tr> and add styles with CSS.

HTML Interlinear div

When using the HTML interlinear div method, provide the following CSS on your website to get the desired output:

.abbrv {
   cursor: help;
}
.sc {
  font-variant: small-caps;
  font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums;
  text-transform: lowercase;
}
div .gll {
  display: inline-table;
  padding-right: 10px;
}

If you haven't noticed, 'Single column lines' does not work. Even if you were to edit the output, a div without the .gll class will only work at the end or the beggining of a block of .gll divs.

Plain Text

Make sure to display the text in a fixed-width font, such as including the text in a <pre> element. Be careful when using the small caps option, as the characters may not display correctly on all devices, especially F, S, X, and Q. My advice is to not use these characters in WYSIWYG editors, but the option is there.

Latex

Latex's gb4e package takes some fiddling around to accept more than three lines, therefore this generator only outputs three lines.

make sure to put \usepackage{gb4e} in your preamble. And if you are using small caps, the font you are using has to support it.

ZBB

This generator outputs the ZBB Board's gloss markup, if you provide more than two lines, the third last line must not be empty!

Reddit

You must ue Reddit's "Markdown" mode and not it's "Fancy pants editor". This will output your text into a so-called fixed-width-font in it's codeblock, and the last line out of the codeblock. Reddit's codeblock doesn't seem to have a fixed width font for all chaacters, at least on the devices I tested on. So if you use certain IPA characters such as ɨ, your columns will come out of alignment and there is nothing you can do about it.

Wiki tables

If your wiki does not have the abbr template, you will need to start a page called template:abbr, and put the following code in it:

<abbr {{#if:{{{class|}}}|class="{{{class}}}"}} {{#if:{{{id|}}}|id="{{{id}}}"}} {{#if:{{{style|}}}|style="{{{style}}}"}} title="{{#tag:nowiki|{{#invoke:String|replace|{{{2|}}}|"|&quot;}}}}">{{{1|}}}</abbr><noinclude>{{Documentation}}
</noinclude>

And after saving, if your wiki asks for documentation, provide this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Abbr

TODO

• Accept abbreviation input with delimiters in them e.g: "Q.WH, Interogative question particle" (unnecessary?)
• Get in-built abbreviations from csv file (difficult, may need third party addon, and might be slower for user)
• Style lines bold or italics option (unnecessary and could croud the input layout?)