\ex in gb4e package: how to force example without line feed

Question

I am using \ex to enumerate my examples in the text. Sometimes I would like to have the example start without line feed, i.e. in the same line. (for instance if the sentence is short, to save space) So I would like to have the output:

"Balala, as in (2) example. Blablabal"

And the exe environment is producing

"Balala, as in

(2) example.

Blablabal"

Aslo for items in the xlist it would be nice to put the next to each other, so (1) a) Blaa. b) blla.

I was not able to find how it is possible. Nothing seems to work for me. Does anyone have a solution?

I removed other packages. I thought there should be a way to adjust it. I do not know any alternative that would allow for what I need.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}

\begin{document}

Consider (\ref{exe:0}).

\begin{exe}
\ex\label{exe:some}
\begin{xlist}
\ex \emph{Some...}\label{exe:0}
\ex \emph{Not ...} \label{exe:1} %% I want to have them next to each other
\end{xlist}    
\end{exe}

Blabla:

\begin{exe}    
\ex \emph{Some...} % I want to have this "inline"   
\end{exe} 
\end{document}

Answer 1

For putting sets of examples side by side you can use the multicol package. The downside of this is that it numbers the examples in a way that you might not like. This is how the package works, so there is no good way around it. For a better method, see the following question:

• Align gb4e examples vertically

For inline examples, here is a way to do this using enumitem to create the inline list but using the example counter from gb4e. It only works for the top level numbering (i.e., you can't have sublists inside inline examples.) It also won't support glossed examples (for obvious reasons.) I don't really think this is a good way of doing examples, in all honesty.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[inline]{enumitem}
\newlist{inlineex}{enumerate*}{1}
\usepackage{calc}
\newcommand{\stepexx}{\value{exx}+1}
\setlist[inlineex,1]{label=(\protect\refstepcounter{exx}\arabic*),ref=(\arabic*),start=\stepexx}
\begin{document}
We can use \texttt{multicol} to put examples in columns. Consider (\ref{exe:0}).
 \begin{exe} 
\begin{multicols}{2}
 \ex\label{exe:some}
 \begin{xlist}
 \ex \emph{Some...}\label{exe:0} 
 \ex \emph{Not ...} \label{exe:1}
 \ex \emph{Third}
 \ex \emph{Fourth} %% I want to have them next to each other 
 \end{xlist}
\end{multicols} 
 \end{exe}


\begin{exe}\ex foo\end{exe} 
This is some text that contains an inline example
\begin{inlineex}
\item \emph{Some inline example.}\label{exe:inline3}
\item \emph{Another inline example.}\label{exe:inline4} % I want to have this "inline"
\end{inlineex}
This is the end of the paragraph with the inline example.
\begin{exe}
\ex This is an example to show the numbers are correct.
\ex Another one
\end{exe}
As you can see references to  \ref{exe:inline4} inline examples \ref{exe:inline3} work too. Unlike \texttt{gb4e} labels they don't need to be wrapped in parentheses.
\begin{inlineex}
\item \emph{This is one last inline example.}
\end{inlineex} And this is the last sentence.
\begin{exe}
\ex An example.
\ex Another one.
\end{exe}
\end{document}