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OT Tableaux Again

Hazel Jean Mitchley writes:

Thanks for your site on LaTeX for Linguists, it is very useful for a novice trying to understand aspects of LaTeX which aren't covered in lshort.

Just a note on the OT tableaux section: I have found an amazing site which automatically generates the code which one would need to create the tableaux, which one can then simply cut and paste into the .tex document. This site automatically handles issues such as shading, the 'hand' command, etc - all one has to do is fill in the input, constraints, options and where the violations occur. The site also indicates precisely which packages are required. 

I thought it might be useful to have a link to this site on your OT
Tableaux page. 

The site is: http://meluhha.com/tableau


Example Numbering Again

Christos Vlachos writes:
        
One of the packages that I would highly recommend for linguists who want a
highly customizable TeX/LaTeX package for producing numbered examples is
expex. It is a new package by John Frampton.

  http://www.math.neu.edu/ling/tex/


A LaTeX for Linguists installation on a usb drive


If you are using a windows machine, you might be interested in 
latex4lingusb:

  http://code.google.com/p/latex4lingusb/

It gives you a portable set up (on a usb drive) which includes a lot of 
the most commonly used linguistics packages.


An interesting Site


I should add a link to:

 http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~gparis/LaTeX/index.php

under my list of `other sites'


Interaction of cancel and qtree packages


There seems to be a conflict between qtree and cancel packages (presumably
because they both play around with line drawing).

(thanks to Tom Wong for this)


Interlinear Glossing


Interlinear glossing is handled in a similar way by the example numbering
packages (e.g. gb4e and covington), but see also:

  SIL's ITF:
  http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=17
(mostly TeX macros, but includes a LaTeX style)

(thanks to Mike Maxwell for this)


Covington/Babel


In babel, one way to get a single word typeset in another language is
something like this:

Assume you have:
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel} 

Then the following sentence will have one word in Greek. The name `Maria'
can be rendered as {\greektext Maria}.

You can use this trick with covington.sty to get glosses where: a) the
first line is in greek, the second is a transliteration, the third is a
word for word gloss, and then there is a translation:

\renewcommand{\eachwordone}{\greektext}

\glll agapaw su.
      agapaw su
      {I-am-loving} you.
\glt `I love you'
\glend


Books etc


Add a citation for \cite{TeXByTopic} in list of books

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
has a very nice list of links, as well as other stuff


PracTeX Journal


The PracTeX Journal:

http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/index.html

has lots of interesting, and very accessible, stuff about using latex
ingeresting and readable articles.


Wikipedia


There is a LaTeX wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX


Pst-asr Package

The pst-asr package is based on PSTricks and is intended to be
used by linguists to typeset autosegmental representations.


OT Tableaux


Nathan Sanders (Linguistics Program, Williams College) has a package for 
making OT tableaux: OTtablx homepage is

http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/OTtablx


Tipa


Two new versions of TIPA are available:

  (1) tipa-1.0
  (2) tipa-1.1-beta

tipa-1.0 is basically the same as the previous release, known as
`beta0624', with a few bugs fixed.

tipa-1.1-beta is a heavily modified version (now testing), which
cover almost all the symbols that appear in the second version of
the Phonetic Symbol Guide (1996). Additional sets of fonts are
newly created. (For some reasons I need to typeset all the symbols
included in this book.)

Both are available at 

ftp://tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/TeX/tipa.


Trees, Word Grammar


Michael Daniels describes how to handle `Word Grammar'
diagrams:

\input xy
\xyoption{all}
\SelectTips{cm}{}
\CompileMatrices

\def\dlt{\hbox{$\Delta$}}
\def\nbl{\hbox{$\nabla$}}
\def\noth{\hbox{}}

\xymatrix{
&\ar@{-}@/_3pc/[ddddl]|r\ar@{-}@/_4pc/[ddd]|r\bullet&&&
\ar@{{\nbl}-{\noth}}[d]\txt{Set}\cr
&\ar@/^/[rrr]|{\txt{author}}\ar@{{\dlt}-{\noth}}[u]\txt{Essay by 2 st.}&&&
\ar@{-}@/_3pc/[dddl]|r\ar@{-}@/^2pc/[ddd]|r\ar@/_/[ddl]|\#\ar@/^/[d]|m\bullet\cr
&&&&{\bullet}\cr
&\ar@{{\dlt}-{\noth}}[uu]\ar@{-}[d]|s\txt{Essay}&&
\ar@{-}[d]|s{2}&\ar@{{\dlt}-*{\noth}}[u]\ar@{-}[d]|s\txt{Student}\cr
\ar[r]\txt{\it an} & \ar[r]\txt{\it essay} & \ar[r]\txt{\it by} &
\ar[r]\txt{\it two} & {\txt{\it students}} \cr
}

\bye

Looks a bit like line noise, but it works. Basically, you set up a grid, 
and then things like [ddu] are directions (down, then down, then up). Every 
\ar is an arrow; @/^2pc/ means curve upwards so that the midpoint is 2 pc 
away from where it would have been; @{-} means just use a solid line; 
@{xyz} means use x as the tail, y as the stem, and z as the head. The |r 
means interrupt the arrow with an 'r'.

The arrows with triangular bases (or heads?) are the trickiest part...you 
really don't need the arrow with a nabla head: I could have reversed the 
direction of the arrow...

Fortunately, xypic comes with an excellent manual (as does the xymatrix 
package itself!). The homepage is

  http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/Xy-pic.html


Vowel Chart


With tipa, there is nice support for making vowel charts, 
see the examples in:

   texmf/doc/fonts/tipa/vowel.tex 
   and its associated style file: vowel.sty

Some documentation about this would be a nice addition.


More on Phonetics


Avery Andrews 
suggestst adding a pointer to Emma Pease's phonetic.sty to the font
section, since although this a lot less comprehensive that tipa.sty,
it's got proper italics instead of just a slant font, which makes
it better for some purposes (such as citing Bob Dixon's Yidiny &
Dyirbal stuff).  


Finoatom


Markus Triska has written a program, Finomaton, which allows you to comfortably draw
and typeset Finite State Machines (and trees). The graphs are exported to plain
MetaPost code and can subsequently be used in TeX and LaTeX documents. With minimal
adjustments to the exported code, the program can also be used to typeset tree
structures visually. Have a look at the demonstration which includes an
example of this.

Finomaton is available from http://triskam.virtualave.net/finomaton/finomaton.html

It requires Tcl/Tk from http://www.tcl.tk

See also: http://www.latex-project.org/


Editor for Windows


For the MS Windows page, David Pardue suggests the `LaTeX Editor
(LEd)'. The project's webpage is:

http://www.latexeditor.org/


Tricks for parsetree


Jason (from the University of Ottowa) writes:

I noticed if you are still using the parsetree package that instead of 
replacing the parentheses with their corresponding commands so you can 
get parentheses in your tree you can alternatively define something in 
the preamble like

 \newcommand{\pbe}{(}
 \newcommand{\pen}{)}

Which you can then use in your trees, and they won't be treated as 
special characters because you're not actually passing them through the 
LaTeX compiler...so this will make writing trees much easier, for example:

 \begin{parsetree}
 (
     .$R\rightarrow \pbe P\leftrightarrow Q\pen$. .$\lnot R$.
     ( .$\lnot(P\leftrightarrow Q)$.
         (.$\lnot P$. .Q.)
         (.$P$. .$\lnot Q$.)
     )
 )
 \end{parsetree}

This will make a normal tree with parentheses around  P <--> Q.


Phonological Rules


Alan Munn suggests the following for phonological rules:

  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage{delarray}
  \newcommand{\Env}{/ \rule{2em}{.5pt}}%Defines the / _  (the `phonological environment' line
  
  \newcommand{\PhonRule}[2]{\(
  \ensuremath
  \begin{array}[c][ {c} ] 
  #1
  \end{array} 
  \rightarrow 
  \begin{array}[c][ {c} ] 
  #2
  \end{array} 
  \)
  }
  
  \newcommand{\PhonRuleWithEnv}[3]{
  \PhonRule{#1}{#2} \Env
  \(
  \begin{array}[c][ {c} ] 
  #3
  \end{array}
  \)
  }

\begin{document} 

  \(
  \begin{array}[c][ {c} ] 
  -cont\\-voice\\+coronal\\+anterior 
  \end{array} 
  \begin{array}[c] [ {c} ] 
  -anterior\\+delrel 
  \end{array}  \Env 
  \begin{array}[c] [ {c} ] 
  +syll\\+high\\-back
  \end{array}
  \)
  
  \par
  \PhonRule{-cont\\-voice\\+coronal\\+anterior}
           {-anterior\\+delrel}
  \par
  
  \PhonRuleWithEnv{-cont\\-voice\\+coronal\\+anterior}
                  {-anterior\\+delrel}
                  {+syll\\+high\\-back}
  
  \end{document}


More on Slides, and other sections needed


 Some more packages that should be mentioned: for the section "Slides" 
 there is a very nice package, "beamer", with surprising carateristics 
 (it is better than "web" and "prosper").
 
 It might be good to have  a new section: "critical 
 editions", useful for linguists, with information about "EDMAC" and 
 "ledmac" packages. There is a  a site 
 (http://antiqua.pusc.it/CeTeX/index.html) with an on-line course to 
 teach the use of theese packages, because it is not very easy to use 
 them, and there you can find links to the respectives pages.


The gb4e Bug


Samson Tikitu de Jager writes:

 I just happened upon your LaTeX for Linguists site, very nice to have
 such a collected resource. I wondered if this would be an appropriate
 place for a little warning about gb4e.sty (apparently hasn't been
 under developement since 1998, so probably not much point submitting a
 bug report at this point...).
 
 The problem is the redefinition of ^ and _, which gives the wrong
 spacing if you use both at once. This becomes really visible if the
 first one is long, eg $e^{\mathrm{ref}}_2$.
 
 Perhaps something for a faq, or for the page on numbered examples
 (where gb4e is suggested, as well as covington)?


More for Windows Users


Hendrik Maryns has some comments about the page `Windows users´:
 
 - first of all: there is another editor which does fairly well, though 
   it is not really an editor: the TeXlipse plugin for Eclipse
 - I really would not claim the standard approach to be Emacs, MiKTeX, 
   GhostView.  The least Windows users use Emacs, and most will produce 
   pdfs, so that would be TeXnicCenter, MiKTeX, Acrobat Reader/Yap.

Then, beamer gives a much more flexible approach to slides, with an 
excellent manual, very easy to get started.

Furthermore, my colleagues all use the package lingmacros, also for 
glossed examples.


More Publishers who accept LaTeX


Claire Bowern writes:

I was just browsing the LaTeX for linguists site and I have an addition 
to the list of publishers who accept LaTeX submissions. Benjamins will 
accept camera-ready copy prepared in LaTeX as long as the page 
dimensions correspond exactly to their style and (as the contact person 
told me) "as long as you know what you're doing". I mention this because 
their guidelines for editors for camera-ready production state that 
Word should be used, and I only found this out after I was complaining 
about how awful some aspects of typesetting were in Word.


Another Tree Drawing Package


xytree -- another powerful package for drawing trees.

http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xytree


Another New Journal


Christina Thiele writes:

I have a new journal to add to your collection.

I'm now typesetting yet another linguistics journal ;-) so perhaps the 
next time you update your website you could add:

    Linguistica Atlantica

Another Canadian journal, and I landed it by word of mouth.

As with CJL and CJAL, there's no explicit call out for accepting 
TeX/LaTeX papers but as I use it, I'm not going to turn such offerings 
away ;-) I don't worry if it has good or bad coding practices in it -- 
everything's fodder for the mill.

I've also had a peek at the phonetic symbols link ... are you sure that 
TIPA's not part of the standard distribution these days? Or was it that 
it used to be but isn't now? Not sure which way that one goes ;-)

I only had a quick look but ... I didn't see a link to the IPA's home 
site. Is it in there somewhere? If not, then that might be a good one to 
add.

Oh ... I can't help it -- I'm an editor!! -- what if the link 
`Errata/Stop Press' were moved to the very top of the left side, on its 
own (spaces above/below)? That way, you'd be sure to actually get 
people's attention ;-) It's rather buried down there at the bottom, I find.

And finally, thanks for the very kind words about the ling-tex list 
(remember the hyphen). We've been going for over 11 years now -- 
amazing, isn't it?! -- and the archive is indeed a treasure trove of 
information.

Well, I've got to stop and get supper ready ;-) Thanks again for keeping 
this site going, Doug. I think it's really good. Indeed, if you don't 
mind ;-), I'll give it a plug to the editors of a set of conference 
proceedings I'll be doing (from Methods XII from last year).


More on QTree

 
Version 3.0b of qtree, the tree-drawing package, is now available for trial 
distribution from the following web address:

         http://www.ling.upenn.edu/advice/latex/qtree/qtree3/.

The new version has a number of useful (and long-requested) features:


LyX for Linguists


In case you do not know, LyX is a `nearly WSYWG' editor for LaTeX (in fact,
it really is better than WSYWG). There is now a site that helps linguists
use it:

LyX for Linguists:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX


Phonology and OT


Doug Ball writes:

I don't know how much you're updating the LaTeX for Linguists page 
these days, but recently came across a package that could be of use to 
people doing OT (since I found it useful for my phonology qualifying 
paper, which I am just finishing up). The package is  arydshln and it 
allows one to put in dashed lines in between constraints in tableaux 
instead of just solid lines. The key bit of code is that one uses the 
colon [:] in the tabular environment for the dashed lines instead of 
the vertical bar [|]. The arydshln package is available from CTAN, 
though it get the sty file, one has to tex an ins file. Apparently, 
there were issues with colortabs at one point, but the more recent 
revisions to this package have solved this problem (I had no problem 
with it myself).


Another Tree Formatter


Avery andrews writes:

I've put up on my page at:

 http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/averyandrews/software/latex/

a beta of a new version of my linguistics tree-formatter, using PSTricks
instead of tree-dvips as the base (via a partial emulation of the latter).

Seems to work, although not really battle-tested.

I've put together a GUI for my trees preproprocessor, it's at

 http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/averyandrews/software/latex/

One version is free-standing for Windows with an installer (rather large),
the other two Python files, somewhat tested in Linux (Ubuntu with
ActiveState Python 2.4.2)


OT Tableaux


Julien Eychenne writes:

I wrote a little python application to help OT practitionners typeset  
tableaux. It is intended to be some kind of WYSIWYG editor for OT  
tableaux which generates LaTeX code. I put it online here :

 http://www.exuna.net/en/tools/otableau.php

While it is not a latex package, it might be useful for latex users  
working in OT. Moreover, the code generated is based on the advice  
found on your website, adapted to create standardly formatted  
tableaux (if "standardly formatted" is to mean anything).

All the best,


A New Introductory Book


David Pardue writes about a new introductory book on LaTeX:

Griffiths, David F. and Desmond J. Higham. Learning
LaTeX. Philadelphia, PA : SIAM (Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics), 1997.
x, 84 p. ISBN 0898713838. USD 26.00

A clear, simple and brief introduction to LaTeX 2e
with humorous examples (e.g., a chronological list of
"Great Moments in LaTeX History"). As a beginner, I've
found it very helpful and readable. It covers a lot of
ground; I'm often able to find what I need here rather
than having to dive into a larger manual.


Some interesting notes on getting started:


http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~gparis/LaTeX/index.php

An interesting course:

http://uit.no/castl/4727/

LaTeX for Linguists
including outline instructions on set up.


Another FAQ -- NASA LaTeX guide


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-2.html
AMS (the American Mathematical Society) maintains a FAQ
http://www.ams.org/authors/author-faq.html


A0 Posters


The most useful site for making a0 posters in Latex seems to be

http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/


Bibliographies and Trees


Martin Reitbauer writes

thanks for providing this great resource. i'm only just starting out in
LaTeX and your site made things a great deal easier.

there are 3 additions/updates i'd like to suggest:

*`Bibliographies: you could mention tools for editing bibtex database
like JabRef (available cross-platform: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/)
or gbib (linux only: http://gbib.seul.org/).

*`Books/Other Reading: there's a new edition of the latex companion:

*`Trees': on http://linuxteam.at/~philip/linguistics/woods/ , there's a
tool that creates xyling tree code pretty much straightforward from 
labeled brackets. this thing has only emerged a few weeks ago, there's a
new, improved version coming up.


Some more packages


Andy Lücking writes: 

I'm a great fan of your web page project that collects LaTeX things
useful for linguistic purposes. Now that "LaTeX of Linguists" has hepled
me a lot in my own typesetting, I hope I could contribute to your page
by telling you about some packages I've found and come to use on my own.

There's a package called "linguex" that provides (amongst other things)
numbered examples and has a nice mechnism for "lazy" crossreferencing
(namely, \Next and \Last commands). It can be found on ctan
(macros/latex/contrib/linguex).

Also on ctan is a package for typesetting logical fomulae for formal
semantics, called "gn-logic-14". It can be found at
macros/latex/contrib/gene/logic

Alexis Dimitriadis has written a package for typesetting DRSs, called
drs.sty. So it is not necessary any more to define your own commands or
to use the not so flexible drs-command from covington. drs is available
on Alexis' web page: 
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Alexis.Dimitriadis/personal/latex/
Though drs.sty is announced as merely being "almost finished", it works
quite well.

Meanwhile, Till Tantau has implemented a "user interface" for his pgf
package, called tikz. pgf stands for "portable graphics format" and is a
"drawing tool" for TeX and LaTeX. It is not as powerful as pstricks (of
course), but it is portable in the sense that it works with pdflatex and
vtex. tikz/pgf can be found in usual place (ctan). It's really great!
For the linguistic it is attractive since it provides an easy way to
draw really nice trees. And can be also used to draw automata. Details
can be found in the comprehensive documentation.

I forgot where I read it, but some pstricks user has complained that
pstricks is not very well documented. At least for German speaking
people there is help: recently Herbert Voß (one of the pstricks
developers) has written and published a new book on pstricks, called
PSTRICKS. Maybe this information is useful for someone.


OT Tableaux again


Pavel Iodsad writes

Marc van Oostendorp on phonoloblog
(http://camba.ucsd.edu/phonoloblog/index.php/2006/09/23/otableau/)
pointed out a nice little program that's called OTableau. It is
available as a Win or Mac executable, or as the Python source code
(which works perfectly here on Ubuntu).

It is a WYSIWYG editor for OT tableaux, which knows TIPA, and is able
to calculate the fatal violations, putting the relevant asterisks and
shading the table accordingly. The output is LaTeX code (done with the
colortab thing), or you can export to CSV.

It is not perfect (thus, I found the mechanism of reranking somewhat
difficult), but it is quite intuitive and good to have. The address is
at http://www.exuna.net/en/tools/otableau.php
LaTeX for Linguists,
Doug Arnold,
doug@essex.ac.uk,
February 19, 2012.