The {linguistics} tag can be used for questions about packages designed primarily for linguists or about typesetting of linguistics-specific material.
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How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?
I need to draw syntactical trees for a natural language. The problem is that I need all the leafs to be parallel. How the other nodes are sorted in relation to the other at the same depth is not ...
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Combining lmodern and tipa
When I use tipa and lmodern in the same document, I always get a couple of font substitution warnings. The document looks fine, though. Is there any way around this?
Minimal example:
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Using TeX for writing papers on linguistics
I wish to write a paper about linguistics, so I thought about trying LaTeX. Sadly I couldn't figure out how to write the unique characters I need for my work, for example epsilon with a little tilde ...
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Type a interlinear text, bi or tri-lingual
I need to do an interlinear text. If I understood the problem correctly, I need a macro or format that will treat each word as a three-story fraction. Top store, a number reference, mid store one ...
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Using TikZ to depict intonation
I am looking into using TikZ to represent pitch patterns over a phrase or sentence (intonation).
I've got it to produce some useful results, already, as in the attached MWE (although in 1.1 the ...
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Creating new characters from existing ones
In a nutshell. Is there a relatively easy way of building characters out of parts of existing ones?
Rationale. (La)TeX linguists’ need for a wide palette of characters—for example, ⟨ɳ⟩ (U+0273), ⟨ɲ⟩ ...
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How can I draw arrows between words in linguistic examples?
This is what I'm after: I'd like to have the sentence 'John loves his mother.' displayed with an arrow running from 'his' to 'John'. I looked at gb4e, but I found the documentation confusing and I ...
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Printing interlinear translation: how to mix automatically two paragraphs, printing lines alternately
I am writing a document on a foreigh language, say French, and want to put some paragraphs in French with their translation in English. But I would like to print one line in French, the corresponding ...
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Use arbitrary amount of underlines + descriptions using TikZ on parts of words
This is an extension of this question. In linguistics, word analyses are often necessary and I think that TikZ is an excellent tool to bring some life, color, and most of all clarity to the scene. I ...
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Using TikZ to depict pitchlevel
After the very productive outcome of my recent question on intonation, I'm emboldened to ask a related question. In the previous one, particular pitchlevels are connected to produce an intonation ...
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Matching phonetic/IPA font for Minion Pro
I am (tentatively) using Minion Pro in XeTeX for my book, but I need to typeset a phonetic notation, for which Minion Pro does not have the glyphs. Are there any good alternatives that can match it?
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Labeling linguistic examples with language information
I'm writing a linguistics paper that uses a large amount of linguistic examples from a wide variety of languages, using the gb4e package. I want to be able to label each example with information about ...
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Filtering font substitution warnings caused by the combination of lmodern and tipa
This question is a follow-up to Combining lmodern and tipa: I tried to filter the harmless warnings that occur when using tipa with the Latin Modern font. Doing so crashes both pdflatex and regular ...
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Section based linguistic example numbering with brackets
I would like to have examples in my document look like this:
Section 2
(2.1) This is an example.
This is a reference to example (2.1).
That is:
the section number appears both next ...
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Why does \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} take over?
I want to produce a document with non-serif type. I also want to include Cyrillic characters. These two aims seem to be mutually exclusive. When I comment out \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}, the document ...
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tikz-qtree: curved lines & multiple parent nodes
I am quite new to LaTeX, and I am stuck with a problem Google can't seem to help me with.
Basically, I need some hand holding in doing something that is more complicated than my skills can handle at ...
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Positioning of numbers in gb4e.sty examples
I'm planning to use the following numbered examples in a document (see example below). I would like the number to be at the top of the example, but for the ones with diagrams it ends up in the middle. ...
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Accessing IPA characters when using Charis SIL
When using Charis SIL, how do I access IPA characters? Are there handy macros, as with tipa.sty? If I have to set up my own encoding using unicode numbers, how is this best done? (Code from those ...
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How can I underline multiple parts of the same word using braces with TikZ?
UPDATE: I opened a related question here.
I work in the field of linguistics and I sometimes need to analyze prefixes, affixes, and suffixes in words. It would be nice to be able to add notes to ...
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Conflict between gb4e and my university style sheet
I am a Linguistics PhD student at U.Florida, writing my dissertation. The LaTeX class from our editorial office conflicts with gb4e (among other packages). Is there a way to override the style sheet ...
