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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 the
language it comes from, as I've seen in some texts, sort of like this:

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gb4e is great at formatting the examples themselves, but I can't seem to get the label placed where I
want it, that is, placed immediately before the example and without an indent. Here's some example
code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{lipsum}

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\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})
\begin{exe}
\ex \gll
J\'anos h\'aza\\
John house.his\\
\glt
`John's house'
\end{exe}
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If the label text is outside the exe environment, it's treated like a regular paragraph, but if I try to put it
inside, it gives me an error. How can I make it look the way I want? I've looked at other packages that
do numbered examples, but they don't seem to have solutions either, and they also don't have the
same functionality as gb4e that I need.

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edited Nov 16 '13 at 5:26

asked Mar 27 '12 at 2:22

Alan Munn
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I have edited your question to include lipsum package for introducing dummy text for better readability and
focus, you can also use egreg's kantlipsum package for the same purpose. Please rollback if this is not
desired. percusse Mar 27 '12 at 3:19
Didn't even know those existed. Thank you! Garrett Mar 27 '12 at 14:07

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10 Section based linguistic

example numbering with

brackets

If you use Alexis Dimitriadis' version of cgloss4e available here as cgloss.sty you can put

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language information right aligned with the first line of the example. This is IMO a very nice way to
format such information, and quite common in the field:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

\begin{exe}
\ex \gll
J\'anos h\'aza\\
John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})
\glt
`John's house'
\end{exe}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Solution also works with linguex

Another popular package for formatting linguistic examples is the linguex package. Since
linguex also uses cgloss4e , the solution given above will also work. Here's the same example
using the linguex commands:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\exg.
J\'anos h\'aza\\
John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})

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That does look nice. Does cgloss4e otherwise work the same as gb4e? I noticed it's not included in Texlive.
Garrett Mar 27 '12 at 14:11
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cgloss4e is loaded by gb4e ; it's the part that handles the glosses and part of the regular gb4e
distribution. You don't see it because you usually never load it by itself. cgloss is a replacement for

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cgloss4e not for gb4e itself. But yes, it works identically as far as I know. I'm not sure why Alexis has
never put it up on CTAN. Alan Munn Mar 27 '12 at 14:16
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So if I load cgloss , does it automatically replace cgloss4e ? Also, should it be loaded before or after
gb4e ? I've discovered that gb4e usually needs to be loaded last or it causes problems. Garrett Mar
27 '12 at 14:23

Yes. You should load it after gb4e . And yes, gb4e should be loaded almost last since it messes with the
category codes of _ and ^ . Alan Munn Mar 27 '12 at 14:27

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You can also just put the language label between the \ex and \gll commands:

\begin{exe}
\ex Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference}) \gll
John house.his\\
\glt
`John's house'
\end{exe}
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J\'anos h\'aza\\

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Here's a (rather ugly) solution by wrapping the language label in an un-numbered example via \sn :

\newcommand\langlabel[1]{\sn\hspace*{-\leftmargin}{#1}\\[-1em]}
...
\begin{exe}
\langlabel{Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})}
\ex \gll
J\'anos h\'aza\\
John house.his\\
\glt
`John's house'
\end{exe}

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answered Mar 27 '12 at 3:35

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I realize this is an old question, but for posterity's sake, I thought I'd point out that expex provides
several ways to include language name or other example annotations.

Right-aligned, on first gloss line

This is the format suggested in the answer by @Alan Munn:

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Explanation
Use \rightcomment{} between \gla and the first word. See section 11.2 of the expex
documentation.
Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expex}
\lingset{everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\ex
\begingl
\gla\rightcomment{Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})}J\'anos h\'aza//
\glb John house.his//
\glft `John's house'//
\endgl
\xe
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Within example, above gloss lines

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This is the format suggested in the answer by @cbowern:

Explanation
Use \glpreamble to introduce the preamble line above the first gloss line. Formatting of the gloss
preamble line can be controlled globally or locally by the parameter everyglpreamble . The vertical
space between the gloss preamble and the first gloss line can be controlled by the parameter
belowglpreambleskip . See section 9 of the expex documentation.
Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expex}
\lingset{everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\ex
\begingl
\glpreamble Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})//
\gla J\'anos h\'aza //
\glb John house.his//
\glft `John's house' //
\endgl
\xe

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\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Left-aligned, above the example

This is the format suggested in the original question:

Explanation
expex doesn't provide a special command for this format, but it's still pretty simple to produce. The

code below creates a command \langlabel that removes the paragraph indent and adds the
vertical space that normally appears above examples. It then uses \ex~ instead of \ex so that
there is no vertical space between the label and the example.
By default, example numbers produced by expex are flush with the left margin (unlike in gb4e ,
where they are indented). If you want to indent the example numbers in expex , use the parameter
numoffset . See sections 4 and 5 of the expex documentation.
Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expex}
\newlength{\aboveexskip} % creates a length \aboveexskip
\setlength{\aboveexskip}{2.7ex plus .4ex minus .4ex} % sets a value for \aboveexskip (this the default value for vertical s
\lingset{aboveexskip=\aboveexskip, everygla=, belowglpreambleskip=-0.5ex, aboveglftskip=-0.5ex} % gloss formatting, aboveex

\newcommand{\langlabel}[1]{\vspace{\aboveexskip}\noindent{#1}} % \aboveexskip is used here because \ex~ will remove the ver

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\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
\langlabel{Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference})}
\ex~ % use the ~ version with \langlabel unless you want vertical space between the label and the example
\begingl
\gla J\'anos h\'aza //
\glb John house.his//
\glft `John's house' //
\endgl
\xe
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}
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answered Nov 10 '14 at 15:28

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Whilst this doesn't answer the OP's specific question, it relates to the same issue as in the question
title.

If you use linguex then I think the best solution is to simply place the \hfill Language info
after the translation line, which of course aligns your language info to the last line of your glossed
example, but this avoids far worse problems.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\begin{document}
\exg. Gianni teme questo.\\
Gianni fears this\\

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`Gianni fears this' \hfill Experiencer subjects

\end{document}

Which looks like this:

The problem with all of the above solutions for people who already use linguex is that
1. you have to modify linguex.sty as per Daniel Bring's response above and/or download and
install cgloss as all the previous answers suggest, and more importantly
2. you'll have to modify the way you write ALL your linguex glossed examples to include \glt at
the beginning of the translation line. I use \exg. all the time and don't always need extra info
right aligned alongside it so I don't want to re-write all of my examples according to what the
cgloss package requires.
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If you're using linguex , you might encounter an error if you use Alan's method from answer #1
above. I had to replace l.361--63 of linguex.sty ,...

\def\gl@stop{{\hskip -\glossglue}\unhbox\gline\end{flushleft}%
\global\glossfalse%
\ifindex\expandafter\lookforwords\fi {} }

...with the following:

\def\gl@stop{{\hskip -\glossglue}\unhbox\gline\leavevmode \egroup
\global\glossfalse%
\ifindex\expandafter\lookforwords\fi {} }

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The reason was that cgloss redefines \gl@stop , but then linguex re-re-defines it. The changes
above avoid that problem by combining both re-definitions.
In addition, replace line 34 in linguex.sty ...
\RequirePackage{xspace,cgloss4e}

...by...
\RequirePackage{xspace,cgloss}

...and linguex loads cgloss , so you don't have to call it seperately.

It works fine on my installation.
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Welcome to TeX.sx! You can add highlighting of code by selecting it and hitting Ctrl + K (or click the button
marked {} above the answer field. Blocks are indented by four spaces, inline code placed between
backticks ( ` ). Torbjrn T. Jan 22 '14 at 15:30

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