Publishing an interlinear

Question

Does anyone here have experience publishing an interlinear? Our project has an interlinear in Paratext which we would like to publish. I’m not sure how to get the data out of PT–it is saved in xml files and appears to be coded for each gloss–nor how to lay it out once it’s out of PT. We only have one book finished, so we’d be willing to switch programs for interlinearization if that’s necessary.

Answer 1

mnjames:

Our project has an interlinear in Paratext …

Did you mean something created with the Interlinearizer (as @anon044949 assumed), or did you mean the sort of interlinear that’s a gloss in a separate project, and intended to be displayed using the Additional Glosses feature of the Source Language Text window?

Comments

I mean something created with the interlinearizer. However, I’d still be interested in hearing from anyone who has done a professional-quality publication of any interlinear–how they organized the data and laid it out (hopefully with an automated process and not by hand). I’ve found someone who’s done this using xetex, so that’s likely the route I’ll end up going, but I’m interested in learning from others also if people have other solutions.

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Yes, an IL has unique layout challenges because the words have to line up and it’s not a single stream of text – it’s two (or more).

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I have published a few interlinear texts as part of a grammar. The first version was done in Word, where I used tables. Not the best way, as you have to decide beforehand how many words to place on a line and where to cut off to the next line. With a few macros it was quite manageable: they would put the text in tables, apply the correct fonts, move text to the next line etc. But once the tables had been set up, it wasn’t possible to change the layout without re-dsitributing the text over the lines.

The second version was done in LaTeX. Once I’d taken the (big) hurdle to learn LaTeX and once the interlinear had been set up (in this case this was built into the system created by the publisher), it was very easy to code and export interlinear text. Vernacular text and gloss were automatically lined up, and the text automatically ran neatly until the end of the line.

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April 3

I mean something created with the interlinearizer. However, I’d still be interested in hearing from anyone who has done a professional-quality publication of any interlinear–how they organized the data and laid it out (hopefully with an automated process and not by hand). I’ve found someone who’s done this using xetex, so that’s likely the route I’ll end up going, but I’m interested in learning from others also if people have other solutions.

Answer 2

The project Interlinearizer does has a save as HTML function. If you need to edit the resulting file then you have to learn to edit an HTML file. You can save it as a PDF as well, but again it would be difficult to edit the file if you thought the resulting file was lacking in some way.

Fieldworks can import data from Paratext and you can interlinearize Scripture there and it has a variety of formats that can be saved as. It will produce files that can be opened in 2007 or newer MS Word and LibreOffice. The files use math equation fields or tables. While difficult they are easier to edit than HTML because you don’t have to learn HTML to work with the files.

Answer 3

, what is the purpose of the interlinear? The audience and what they want it for will determine a lot about how you process any interlinear coming out of Paratext. (Feel free to grab me in my office sometime and we can discuss it in person if you like.) Also that will affect how you craft the glosses. Are the interlinear languages related? Is this part of a publication for a particular religious audience as part of an assurance of accuracy?