Glossing Rules

Rules

(1) Alignment

A word and its gloss need to be vertically arranged in a left-aligned way.

Example:

Vorgestern	bin	ich	von	einem	Kurzurlaub	zurückgekommen
the.day.before.yesterday	am	I	from	a	short.vacation	back.come

‘I came back from a short vacation the day before yesterday.’

But not

Vorgestern bin ich von einem Kurzurlaub zurückgekommen.
the.day.before.yesterday am I from a short.vacation back.come
‘I came back from a short vacation the day before yesterday.’

The best way to edit this in text editing programs is by the means of invisible tables, i.e. tables without border lines. (Whitespaces like blanks or tabs are not very helpful for this purpose.)

(2) Merging glosses

Example:

Vorgestern	bin	ich	von	einem	Kurzurlaub	zurückgekommen
the.day.before.yesterday	am	I	from	a	short.vacation	back.come

‘I came back from a short vacation the day before yesterday.’

But not

Vorgestern	bin	ich	von	einem	Kurzurlaub	zurückgekommen
the day before yesterday	am	I	from	a	short vacation	back come

‘I came back from a short vacation the day before yesterday.’