Questions tagged [gb4e]

{gb4e} is a package for formatting numbered examples as used in linguistics.

The gb4e package provides facilities for formatting numbered examples as used in linguistics. Its strengths are its fully semantic markup and automatic glossing of examples.

Related packages are:

For discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of all three packages, see

Numbered examples in linguistics that I can refer back to

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Cannot compile glosses using gb4e package

I'm trying to add glosses to my paper using TexMaker, MikTex and the gb4e package. But every time I hit compile it takes forever until it finally spits out an error (basically saying that it took too long to compile and therefore has been…
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How to gloss lines in a dialogue in one example using gb4e?

It should look like this: and this does not work: \begin{exe} \ex\label{tomatoes} \gll Abe: Tomaten sind Obst.\\ {} tomatoes are fruit\\ Briselotta: Are you kidding me?\\ \gll Abe: Nein, natürlich nicht.\\ {} no naturally not \end{exe} Speaker B's…
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Italicize first line of /gll and second line of /glll

When using gb4e, is it possible to apply \let\eachwordone=\itshape to every \gll, and \let\eachwordtwo=\itshape to every \glll? In other words, is it possible to only italicize the phrase in latin script, and not the non-latin original script (if…
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gb4e: use of hash sign in front of semantically incorrect examples

I am working on a linguistic thesis and use the gb4e package to number my examples. I have been taught that semantically incorrect examples should be marked by a hash sign in front of them, so I am sure it will be accepted in my university…