Description
The Interlinear-to-LaTeX conversion script (make-interlinear.pl) is a little Perl script that helps you create nicely-formatted interlinears. As we all know, interlinears are one of the best ways of showing off your conlang (especially on the CONLANG mailing list). The only trouble is, they are quite complex to create in LaTeX. Well, this need not be so any longer! With this handy utility, all you need is to enter an ASCII visually-formatted interlinear, and the script will turn it into LaTeX commands that will produce a beautiful interlinear for you.
System Requirements
This utility works on every platform that supports Perl 5 and above, and also LaTeX (if you actually want to see what the output looks like). There are no other requirements.
License
The LaTeX Interlinear tool is Free Software, licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL) (Version 2 or above) published by the Free Software Foundation.
Download
The latest version is 1.14.
The documentation is included in the download.
Sample Output
Here are some samples of Ebisédian interlinears produced using this
tool. These samples are taken from the Ebisédian entries in previous
CONLANG relays. I've tried to demonstrate a few different ways that you can
use the INTERTEMPLATE commands to format the output differently.
You will notice that some of the sample output files look quite different from
each other.
- Sample #1: [Source] [PDF] [PS]
- Sample #2: [Source] [PDF] [PS]
- Sample #3: [Source] [PDF] [PS]
- Sample #4: [Source] [PDF] [PS]
- Sample #5: [Source] [PDF] [PS]
Note: the \ortho{ ... } commands
and the \begin{ortho} ... \end{ortho} environments in
the source files are a special tag used by my Ebisédian
orthography-to-LaTeX generator. You won't be able to actually compile the files
with LaTeX unless you have genlatex installed. But for the
purposes of these samples, you could just think of these commands as
“magical” commands that transform Ebisédian ASCII
orthography into the nice symbols you see in the sample output files.
