Questions tagged [linguistics]
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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Repeat example in LateX but with double numbering (incremental and old)
I am using gb4e to write my thesis and I need to repeat examples by presenting them using both the new number (example 4 follows example 3) and the original number they were presented first with. For ...
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How do I make this forest tree shorter without making it wider by adjusting the angles?
I'm having some trouble with this forest tree, my goal is to get it shorter without making it any wider, by adjusting the angles under CP and VP to be wider. When I try using the calign=fixed angles, ...
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How do I move an entire forest tree to the left?
I'm looking for a way to shift this entire tree to the left, so it can fit on the page with the wider spacing I'm looking for. The white space on the left is there whenever I have the arrow drawn.
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parentheses of numbering got lost after \counterwithout command
In linguex package, I want a continuous numbering of examples across chapters, thus I added the command \counterwithout{ExNo}{chapter}. However, the parentheses of the numbering got lost in the second ...
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Gloss command and spaces
What is wrong with my \coolgl{}{} gloss command (a clone of cgloss4e's \twosent, and therefore, having brace-delimited arguments and being \hfill-compatible), which produces those unwanted spaces in ...
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Creating a floating tree next to another
I'd like to draw a smaller subtree inside a circle stemming out of this tree, in the following way:
Is there a code I can use to do that (I'm using forest)?
Thanks a lot!
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Problems with Springer Nature Template and qtree
I have a problem regarding the package qtree in combination with the Springer Nature Template. Once I put my paper in this template, the trees appear in a weird shape: the nodes appear separated, the ...
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How to create a less specified timeline diagram?
I want to use Latex to create Kleinian tense/aspect diagrams like the ones below. I've tried looking at timeline code, but they tend to be too complicated for my purposes or include years/time ...
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tipa partially incompatible with leipzig?
I'm using tipa to, well, use the IPA in my thesis. If I load leipzig, some of the inputs defined in tipa no longer work, for example:
\textipa{\:r}, which should produce "ɽ" (this symbol), ...
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How to insert two syntax trees with brackets in a line with tikz-qtree?
I have been reading Heim & Kratzer 1998, and I find that the pattern of compositional analysis interesting. The tree drawing is difficult, for it need to insert two trees in a line and each tree ...
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Diacritics not printed correctly with TIPAUNI
I have asked a question on another problem (see here) and someone suggested using tipauni instead of tipa. My initial problem (font of IPA symbols) has been solved thanks to this suggestion. However, ...
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Flushleft vs raggedright and line ending in linguistic examples [duplicate]
(Note: this is related to How to fix spacing with multi-line cgloss4e examples?)
I am trying to typeset linguistic examples with LaTeX, and in an a5 page setup. I am using linguex and cgloss4e. I need ...
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Continuous numbering of examples (langsci-gb4e) over chapters
I tried to use
\counterwithout{exe}{chapter}
for continuous numbering over chapters of langsci-gb4e examples. But the following error appears.
Latex Error: No counter 'exe' defined
Working example
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Fontenc and tipa
I am layouting my PhD theses in linguistics and I am struggling with the layout of the linguistic examples. Thanks to StackExchange, I could solve the problem of font size (see here). Now, however, I ...
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Font size of linguistic examples (langsci-gb4e)
I need to format my thesis in linguistics as required by the publisher. The font has to be Times New Roman 10,2°, spacing 11,9°. While this works for the main text, I cannot change the font size of ...
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Shifting leaf nodes to the right in forest
In the following tree the edges should hit the leaves above ha, en, and o. But due to the subscripts, the edges hit at the middle of the complete node.
I found a "solution" to the problem ...
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Removing a vertical line in the vowel chart of the vowel package
I am drawing oral and nasal vowel charts of my language using the package vowel. There is a neutralization between mid-open and mid-closed vowel in that there is only ɛ̰ and ɔ̰ for that. But in my ...
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Error using fontspec/lualatex with italic IPA unicode symbol <ɻ> (retroflex approximant) [duplicate]
Using fontspec with lualatex, and Libertine as the font, I get an obvious misalignment whenever the IPA symbol for a retroflex approximant, <ɻ>, is used in italics, but only if it has other ...
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How can I remove punctuation/period after lettered subexamples in g4be/xlist
I have to change sub examples in xlist environments (or rather g4be's \ea \ea \ex \ex \ex \z \z ) from being letter plus period, e.g. a. to simple parentheses (a) not followed by a period/full stop.
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Typgloss small capitalization on glossing third line
I use a package called typgloss to automatically put into small capitals linguistic glosses that are in uppercase.
The problem is that it works when there is only one line to gloss, but does not work ...
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How do I create Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams with compound subjects, compound verbs, or compound objects
Following the excellent answer to Sentence diagramming given some years ago, I would like to create Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams with compound subjects or objects, such as: "Aunt Amy and Uncle ...
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Word alignment graphs
I am looking for a way to visualize word alignment between sentence pairs that would look like this:
(taken from https://aclanthology.org/W11-4615.pdf)
I've already come across this similar question ...
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Morpho-phonological insertion in syntactic tree
I need to draw a tree that partially reproduces one from a paper I'm citing in my dissertation. With the following code I obtain the tree below. However, what I need is to draw the connection between ...
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Alignment of elements within tikzpicture
I am trying to represent the prosodic tones of an utterance but I'm failing to align some elements which should be aligned.
Here's the minimal working example of what I'm doing:
\documentclass{book}
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Add spacing beneath multi-line covington gloss
I would like there to be some space below the last (populated) line of a covington gloss so that long glosses are easier to read.
This code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{covington}
\begin{...
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How to add some space between subexamples of expex?
I want to add some space between the sub-examples generated with package expex. Here is an MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{expex}
\lingset{%
belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex,%
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Adding a line of text in glossed examples
Here's the code I'm working with (you need cgloss.sty to run it):
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\begin{document}
\ex.
\ag. This is a sentence. \\
a b c d\\ \...
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Drawing an HS tableau
I want to draw a tableau like this picture.
OT tableau package is not helpful in this case. Don't care about the phonetics symbols. Just write it with a,b,c and 1,2,3 the columns and rows.
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Using gb4e with amsbook class
I am required to use amsbook for a project, but I find that it messed up the alignment of interlinear glosses with the gb4e package.
Here's my code:
\documentclass{amsbook}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{...
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Should I go for a table layout to create this?
I have this in a printed book and I want to create the same in LaTeX.
Should I use two tables, one for the left and one for the right side? should I set hidden borders on the tables except the outer ...
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Should I use minipages to re-create this document in LaTeX?
I would like to re-create this document in LaTeX and I was wondering how to proceed. Should I create two minipages, one for the left (45%) and the other for the right (45%)? 10% spacing between them, ...
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Using Philex how can I change the spacing between subexamples?
Please, can someone explain how to patch Philex to customize the spacing between examples, subexamples and subsubexamples, respectively.
For example, if I want spacing between subexamples but no ...
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How can I re-create this table in LaTeX?
I would like to re-create the table below in LaTeX.
It's an A4 paper in landscape orientation.
The way I did it in LibreOffice Writer was using nested tables that have their borders hidden. In the ...
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Forest latex how to go to next line in node child
I am just experiencing with forest, and I'd like to have a responsive child, and not to be in one line as shown in the figure below:
I'd like to split the text of all child of 1 level. I already ...
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Using the word "write" as a label makes compilation crash
Took me all night (literally) to figure out.
Compilation was failing one time out of two, with the following original error (line 12) : "Bad space factor (0)".
That was crazy because ...
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Refer to a range of subsubexamples
I use Cleveref to refer to subexamples such as "2a–c".
Now I want to use crefrange to refer to 1ai–ii as well.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{philex}
\usepackage{cleveref}
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custom \xlist environment for simplistic speaker labels in gb4e
this is my first post to tex stack exchange so I apologise if the post is missing required information.
I'm using gb4e to produce linguistic examples for my dissertation, and I'm trying to find the ...
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LaTeX symbol for c_0
Given the importance of the speed of light to so many in areas of science, engineering, computing, etc. and so many areas of daily life, particularly for example with the electromagnetic spectrum that ...
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Turn on double spacing between gb4e lines
I need to set double spacing between the lines of linguistic examples. The command \doublespacing works for the regular paragraphs, but not inside exe environments. Below, I give a MWE.
\documentclass{...
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Numbers appearing below figures when using gb4e
I'm trying to number my figures in Latex, and in linguistics it's conventional for the number to appear above the figure. It's also conventional for all tables, figures and examples to receive the ...
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Problem with Computational Linguistic Template - COLI - CLV3.cls
I am trying to use the Computational Linguistic journal's latex template. In compiling their manual example "COLI-manual3.tex" I get the following:
! Extra \endgroup.
\document ->\...
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Nodeconnect lines don't show up
I just installed miktex/texmaker and run an example from here http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/latex-example.html .But the lines that connect the tree don't show up like in the example. How do ...
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Forest Node Alignment with Tikz Rectangle Drawing
I am using MacTeX/TeXLive 2021 and the newest version of TeXStudio. For compiling, I am using Latexmk.
In the tree below, I would like for the green box placed on the VP to affect the positioning of ...
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How to use slanted, bold, sans serif, or typewriter IPA symbols (TIPA) in ClassicThesis?
I want to use slanted IPA symbols in ClassicThesis. I am using the TIPA package. According to the package's documentation, the code below should give slanted, bold extended, sans serif, and typewriter ...
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Reduce vertical space before and after gb4e in footnote, align example with footnote text
This is most definitely a follow-up question to Not excessively stretch vertical space between elements in gb4e (glossing verse text; issue w/ enumitem) and probably related to Adjust margins and ...
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Typing Brackets '[' ']' Within a Node in Tikz Q-Tree
I am trying to make a tree with Tikz Q-Tree wherein one of the nodes/the text shown needs to read: [+past]. However, brackets are used in the construction of the tree itself, so when I include them in ...
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Not excessively stretch vertical space between elements in gb4e (glossing verse text; issue w/ enumitem)
Part of my data is verse text which I'd prefer to gloss line by line. I toyed with this setup (MWE):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
\begin{exe}
\ex \gll der wídem vnd der ...
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Is this IPA symbol for a long vowel available?
Is the below marked symbol available in any of the font?
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\label seems to need space when used with gb4e
I try to keep examples typeset with gb4e on the same page. I extended gb4e by two shortcodes that wrap examples in a tabular environment. This worked until recently but now I get problems with \label ...
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limiting space used by gb4e and adding language information to the right
Often authors provide the language name together with examples. The language name is flushed to the right. This works well with short examples but looks ugly with long examples. The code below ...
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