This is LaTeX document style option `gloss.sty'  It's a LaTeXified
version of Marcel R. van der Goot's `gloss.tex', version 1.0, which
may be found unchanged in csvax.cs.caltech.edu:pub/tex/Midnight.

Written by Alexander Holt, Centre for Cognitive Science, University
of Edinburgh <lex@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>.

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This style option provides a new environment, `gloss', for making
aligned word-by-word linguistic glosses.  So you can say

    \begin{gloss}
      Dit is een Nederlands voorbeeld. \\
      this is a Dutch example
    \end{gloss}

and have the Dutch words aligned with their English translations.

You can use braces to control what gets treated as a word, eg:

    \begin{gloss}
      Dit is een voorbeeldje in het Nederlands. \\
      this is a {little example} in {} Dutch
    \end{gloss}

It is not necessary for each line to contain the same number of
words, nor for them to be separated by exactly one space character.
You may have as many aligned lines as you wish, of arbitrary length
-- output lines will be broken as necessary (thus it is possible to
gloss an entire paragraph, if desired).  It is, however, essential
that at least one space precedes `\\', within the environment.

By default, the words on each glossed line will be set in the font
prevailing at the start of the `gloss' environment.  You can change
the font for each line by defining a new command that takes one
argument and has the name `glossword<x>', where `<x>' is a single
lowercase letter: `a' stands for the first glossed line, `b' for
the second, and so on.  This command will then be applied to each
word of the relevant line, enabling font changes (and, indeed,
arbitrary operations on the word) to be defined easily.  For
example, one might say

    \newcommand{\glossworda}[1]{\it#1}

to set the first line of each gloss in italic.  (It is not
necessary to add extra grouping braces to the definition, as the
command is always applied to a word inside an \hbox.)

(Note that the `gloss' environment does no example numbering or
indentation -- other mechanisms should be used to provide such.)