LinguisticGlosses

Summary: Adds markup for entering glossed text
Version: 2012-12-08
Status: Beta
Prerequisites: pmwiki-2.1, PHP 5.2+
Maintainer: DzmitryKushnarou? (dmytro_kushnariov@lavabit.com)
Categories: Markup
Download: glosses.phpΔ

Question answered by this recipe

  • How can I add glossed text markup for the wiki about linguistics?
  • How can I add pinyin pronounciation under Chinese text?
  • How can I add furigana (ruby markup) over Japanese text?

Description

'Linguistic Glosses' recipe allows to add glossed text for your site.

  • Glosses can be put over or under the main text.
  • Glosses text is word-wrapped.
  • The resulting layout can be modified via CSS.
  • Text is viewable by modern browsers (supporting display: inline-block) or by text-only browsers like Lynx (not supporting display at all).
  • An argument nospaces to delete whitespace in the text (useful for Chinese and Japanese).
  • An argument above for glosses above the text (useful for furigana).
  • An argument larger, larger=2, larger=3 to make the main text larger (useful for Chinese and Japanese).
  • An easy way to make your own arguments (argument xxx adds a class .gloss-xxx to the respective paragraph tag, so just add CSS).

Notes

Glosses works in all modern browsers; however, older browsers (e.g. Opera below 9) can have trouble displaying glosses.

Installation

  1. Download and copy glosses.phpΔ to the cookbook/ directory.
  2. Enable the recipe in your local/config.php file with:
    include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/glosses.php");

Markup

Once installed, it adds markup of the form:

(:gloss PARAMETERS... :)
word{gloss} word{gloss} ``word with spaces``{gloss for it}
(:glossend:)

with the following optional PARAMETERS:

  • above to make gloss display above the text,
  • larger{=1,2,3} to make text larger,
  • nospaces to ignore whitespace in the markup,
  • rtl to override the default text direction.

Release Notes

2012-12-08
First version.

Contributors

Comments

See discussion at LinguisticGlosses-Talk?

User notes? : If you use, used or reviewed this recipe, you can add your name. These statistics appear in the Cookbook listings and will help newcomers browsing through the wiki.