Adding a line of text in glossed examples

Question

Here's the code I'm working with (you need cgloss.sty to run it):

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\begin{document}
\ex.
\ag. This is a sentence. \
a b c d\ \hfil{lalalala}
\glt blah' \bg. This is a sentence. \\ a b c d\\ \hfil{lalalala} \gltblah'
\end{document}

It produces the following:

Is there a way to modify it to make it look something like this:

That is, I want to have a line with "Context" just above the lines that contain "This is a sentence" in my example. If I just use \\, this messes up the inter-linear glossing.

Answer 1

Another reason not to use linguex. :) If you're not committed to it, I would recommend gb4e instead. But if you are committed to it, you can do what you want by using the cgloss4e glossing macros directly rather than the linguex wrappers.

Using linguex alone

Because linguex adds a small vertical space in the \ex. line, I've made a corresponding \ix. command to use when an example has the introduction line. If you like the small extra space (as in the second version of my sample code) then you don't need the \ix. command at all.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex}
\def\ix.{\ex.\setlength{\Extopsep}{0pt}}
\begin{document}
\ix. 
\a. This is an introductory sentence describing the context.
\gll This is a gloss\
This is another gloss\
\glt `This is a translation.'
\ex. 
\a. This is an introductory sentence describing the context.
\gll This is a gloss\
This is another gloss\
\glt `This is a translation.'
\end{document}

Using linguex with cgloss

If you are also using cgloss, then the solution actually turns out to be simpler, we just need to add a zero length \vskip to the \gll command, which we can do using the etoolbox package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{linguex,cgloss}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\pretocmd{\gll}{\vskip0pt}{}{}
\begin{document}
\ex. 
\a. This is an introductory sentence describing the context.
\gll This is a gloss\
This is another gloss\
\glt `This is a translation.'\hfill (Language information)
\end{document}