Template:Interlinear

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Basic usage

This template formats a linguistic interlinear glossed text:

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Important: On lines to be interlinearised, any wiki markup or templates should never span word boundaries. Мarkup or templates that apply to a sequence of words must be repeated for each word: (It is also possible to apply formatting to an entire line, see below)

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The characters

XML Example

<

,

XML Example

>

and

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=

should not be used directly. They can be substituted as follows:

Character	Substitute
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
=	{{=}}

To let a multi-word expression be treated as a single word, surround it in {curly brackets}. Similarly, use

XML Example

{}

for an empty word:

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The template can be invoked with any number of unnamed parameters, which are interpreted as lines of text. If there is only one unnamed parameter, then it will be rendered in-line and treated as a gloss line: {{interlinear|house-ATTR master-ABS}} gives: house-ATTR master-ABS. If they are more than one, then all will be interlinearised except the last one, which is assumed to be the free translation. To force the interlinearisation of all lines, supply an empty last unnamed parameter:

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Layout

A line of text to be displayed above the interlinear block is given using |top=, one to be displayed immediately below the free translation is set using |bottom=. If any of these need to contain more than a singe line, then line breaks can be introduced using {{br}}. Example numbering can be set using |number=. The parameter consists in one or more characters to be displayed in the left margin.

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The indentation of the interlinear block (measured in ems) can be modified using |indent=. Currently, the default value is 3 if |number= is set, and 0 otherwise. This behaviour is set to change: the next version of the template will apply indentation by default.

The spacing between consecutive word stacks can be adjusted using |spacing=; it is measured in ems and its default value is 1. To visually set off the interlinear display from surrounding text, the |box=yes parameter can be used. It surrounds the whole interlinear text in a box with a wikitable-like background colour.

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To add a comment after a given line, use |cN= (where N is the sequence of the line: the content of |c1= will be appended at the end of first line, |c2= – at the end of the second line etc.):

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Line formatting

Formatting can be set for an entire line using the |styleN= parameter, which applies CSS style properties to line N (|style1= for the first line, |style2= for the second one, etc):

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Similarly, CSS classes can be specified for line N using |classN=. Classes should be given without any quotation marks.

Italics are by default applied to the first line, unless disabled by |italics1=no. Any line can be italicised using |italicsN=yes (where N is the number of the line). On italicised lines, tone numbers will be formatted as superscripts, unless |tone-superscripting= is set to

XML Example

no

. To turn off italics for a particular word within an italicised line, use {{noitalic}}.

To specify the language of a given line, you can use |langN= (with N being 1 for the first line, 2 for the second one etc.). The parameter should be the ISO code of the language, as in the familiar Template:Lang. If the unnumbered |lang= is given, then it is applied to the first line. If line N employs IPA, then the effect of Template:IPA can be mimicked by setting |ipaN=yes. If transliteration has been used, then the transliteration scheme can be specified with the |translN= parameter (similarly to Template:Transl).

Glossing abbreviations

Linguistic glosses typically abbreviate grammatical category labels, like this: ACC, instead of the full name 'accusative'. The line containing such glosses is specified using |glossingN=yes (where N is the number of the line within the interlinear text). If no line is specified, then it is assumed such glosses are found in the second line (this can be bypassed with |glossing2=no). Within the lines so specified, any sequence of upper case letters will be interpreted as a grammar gloss and formatted in Template:Small caps.

Additionally, the template will attempt to recognise the meaning of each abbreviation by looking it up in several places (more details below), and if the abbreviation is found, it will be formatted with a dotted underline and the "label" of this abbreviation will be displayed in a tooltip, like this: DAT. Alternatively, the abbreviation can be turned into a link to the Wikibook about the corresponding grammatical category, like this: DAT. To choose the latter behvaiour, use the following parameter: |glossing=link. It is possible for separate lines to employ different styles, in this case the parameters used will be |glossing2=, |glossing3=, etc.

If a particular glossing abbreviation is to be treated differently from the rest, then {{gcl}} can be used:

{{interlinear|ngagun-yi nga-nanda-yi nung
|{{gcl|1sg}}.NOM-{{gcl|ERG||}} {{gcl|1sgA|1st-person singular "agent"}}.3sgO-see-{{gcl|'''P'''ST}} {{gcl|3sg}}.ACC
|'I saw him/her.'}}

ngagun-yi

1sg.NOM-ERG

nga-nanda-yi

1sgA.3sgO-see-PST

nung

3sg.acc

ngagun-yi nga-nanda-yi nung

1sg.NOM-ERG 1sgA.3sgO-see-PST 3sg.acc

'I saw him/her.'

In this example, Template:Tlc marks up acc as a glossing abbreviation (it wouldn't have otherwise been interpreted as such because it is lower-case). Template:Tlc is used to define the meaning of the unusual abbreviation 1sgA, which wouldn't be recognised even in upper case. Template:Tlc displays the abbreviation as a link to the Wikibook. Template:Tlc applies formatting to a part of a glossing abbreviation; if Template:Tlc weren't used here then the wikimarkup would have forced P to be treated as a separate abbreviation from ST.

If the grammatical category labels are not abbreviated but written out in full (like that: ACCUSATIVE) then |glossing= should be set to

XML Example

no abbr

, which will only apply small-caps formatting:

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Additional style parameters can be applied to all gloss abbreviations using |glossing-style=. The default formatting using small caps can be disabled with |small-caps=no, and the default underlining can be turned off using |underline=no. To exempt a particular abbreviation from being treated as a grammatical gloss, use {{no gloss}}.

The pesky boxes with glossing messages that are shown in preview mode can be turned off with |display-messages=no.

Custom abbreviations

The template recognises some of the most commonly used abbreviations. However, it is recommended to always specify the meaning of each abbreviation used. There are several ways to do that:

• Defining at the article level. If an article uses a number of interlinearised examples and they share a set of abbreviations, then these can be defined once for the whole article using the following format:
• <section begin="list-of-glossing-abbreviations"/><div style="display:none;">
ABBR1:meaning1
ABBR2:meaning2
</div><section end="list-of-glossing-abbreviations"/>
  The list can contain any number of abbreviations; if a wikibook needs to be specified, it is added after a colon, for example:
  XML Example

  NEG:negator:Negation (linguistics)
  

  . This whole code can be placed anywhere in the article, but it is customary to put it at the end, after the references but before any categories. It is visible only in edit mode, it is not displayed in the article.
• Defining at the level of a single instance of the template. This is done using |abbreviations= (or |ablist=). The list of custom abbreviations takes the same format as above:
  XML Example

  ABBREVIATION1:meaning1:wikibook1; ABBREVIATION2:meaning2:wikibook2
  

  ... (specifying a Wikibook is optional and has no effect unless |glossing=link):

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• Defining a single instance of an abbreviation. This is done using {{gcl}}, as seen above
• Defining an abbreviation globally. This is done by the addition of an entry to the module's data page. The abbreviation will be recognised by any use of the templates, anywhere on the English wikibook. This should be done only for completely unambiguous abbreviations.

Troubleshooting

This is a list of problems that are likely to be encountered:

• One of the lines went missing.

  Does this line contain anywhere an equals sign? If yes, then all instances of the equals sign should be replaced with {{=}}.

• I've applied bolding/italics to a phrase and now the formatting is all over the place.

  Any formatting should be applied separately to each word.

• I receive the error "Mismatch in the number of words".

  Interlinearised lines don't contain the same number of words. If this is intended, then consider filling the empty slots with

  XML Example

  {}
  

  . If this is not intended, then the following points might help track down the cause:

  • if formatting or a template is applied to a piece of text then this text is treated as a single word:
  • non-breaking spaces are not treated as word separators;
  • if a sequence of words is enclosed in {curly brackets} then it's treated as a single word.

• I receive the error "Unknown glossing abbreviation(s)".

  See above for details, but in short:

  • If this was not intended as a glossing abbreviation, enclose it in {{no gloss}}.
  • To set the meaning of one instance of a glossing abbreviation, format that instance with {{gcl}}, for example Template:Tlc.
  • If the abbreviation occurs several times within the same example then it might be easier to use the |abbreviations= parameter, for example: |abbreviations=PF:perfective aspect.

Notes

See also

• {{fs interlinear}}, a version of this template which makes it easier to set up glosses with separate lines for a foreign-script text and a transliteration
• {{gcl}}, for formatting individual glossing abbreviations

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for the template used by the new VisualEditor.

Interlinear

This template formats interlinear glossed text. Only a few of the capabilities of this template are documented here. For all options, see its documentation. Alignment is automatic, so there is no need to add padding either inside or around the template.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
First line of interlinear text	1	It is italicised by default (unless the parameter "italics1" is set to "no").	String	required
Second line of interlinear text	2	By default, this is expected to contain the glosses. If there are any glossing abbreviations, they will be expanded (unless the parameter "glossing2" is set to "no").	String	suggested
Third line of text	3	If it is the last line, it is assumed to be the translation and so will not be interlinearised. To force the last line to be interlinearised, then add a new, empty, line after it.	String	suggested
Fourth line of text.	4	no description	String	optional
Fifth line of text	5	no description	String	optional
Language of the text	lang	ISO 639 code of the language.	String	optional

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