Re: Interlinears
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 23:18 |
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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