Interlinear software

[AML]

Hi all,

I am interested in making my own interlinear texts for learning purposes. Does anyone know of some software that let's you create interlinear texts (even in RTL languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew)? I've tried doing it in Word, but Word is not very practical because you can paste the Hebrew into one line of a table, but then you have to type the English translation in reverse order in the row under it. Rather tedious.

What I would prefer instead is a program that could let me paste the RTL language and then click on each word (or short phrase) and then let me type in the translation. That way it's easy to edit and will probably automatically center the translation below the appropriate word, as well. Additionally it would be nice to be able to edit the format so that whatever I paste isn't just one giant paragraph.

Does anyone know of such software?

And if this sort of software doesn't exist, are there any software engineers out there that would be interested in creating it?

Cheers,
AML

[Tomás]

It's easy to make side-by-side columns in Word. This works as well as interlinear for learning--better in my opinion.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Many years ago I followed Iversen's old piece of advice from HTLAL - it's available here in his guide.

There may be some additional info about the format in Interlinear books?.

[Tomás]

Many years ago I followed Iversen's old piece of advice from HTLAL - it's available here in his guide.

For some reason that link took me to the top of the page. OP should look for Iversen's section 4.2 on making parallel texts.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Thanks, I've edited the link now.

[rdearman]

I think this might be what you are looking for: http://michel.jacobson.free.fr/ITE/index_en.html

[rdearman]

Think I found some more

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... inear-text
http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/interlinear/
http://www.xlingpaper.org/?author=1
http://extensions.services.openoffice.o ... OoLilyPond

[israelrt]

Put the texts into two different text files.
Then use the following command on the command line :

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paste -d '\n' file1 file2

This will create interlinear text and will send it to standard output.
There are also ways to do it with cat or awk.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4011 ... text-files

[rdearman]

Put the texts into two different text files.
Then use :

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paste -d '\n' file1 file2

There are also ways to do it with cat or awk.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4011 ... text-files

Actually I know in linux there is a command line tool which will create dual language books, eg page to page, and I thought it would do interlinear, line-by-line too, but I couldn't find it for love nor money. Personally I'd use LaTex simply because it would output a pdf or other more useful formats than text. But the OP should have enough options now.

[AML]

Think I found some more

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... inear-text
http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/interlinear/
http://www.xlingpaper.org/?author=1
http://extensions.services.openoffice.o ... OoLilyPond

Thanks very much to all for the links. It seems like learning LaTeX may be my best bet, so I'll try that first. It's free, and there is community support. Plus my wife has used it before, so she can help me a bit if needed.