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Re: Interlinears

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 23:18
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:09:54 -0500, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
wrote:

> HTML can do it easily enough, with a series of two-row > tables with one cell per word on each line.
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:56:09 -0500, Aidan Grey <taalenmaple@...> wrote:
> In MS Word, I just use borderless tables, nested too if you want to get > really complex.
Yeah. I've tried both of those methods. The thing is, tables don't wrap nicely (this is a double problem in HTML where you don't even have control over the output width). If I have a long line of text, and I want to add to it, and it throws the columns past the right margin, I have to manually mess with this table and the table for the next line, and potentially the line after that (ad infinitum), which is really painful when you have a 6-row table with Source Text, Transliteration, Normalization, IPA, Interlinear and (with all cells on one row joined into one) Plain English. Paul