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I just made a script that translates interlinear glosses into specific languages, via G2LF files:

http://personak.weebly.com/gloss2lang.html

For example, type man.GEN.PLR in the text box with a latin.g2lf file, and it comes up with hominum.

The sample G2LF file should tell you how to create G2LF files.

Comments? Criticisms? Suggestions? (especially suggestions)

EDIT: there should now be instructions

The syntax of those .g2lf files looks a little intimidating (the fact that over half of the sample file consisted of comments didn't help).

That's only my first impression; it's nothing I couldn't learn if I felt like taking the time to play with it. That said, you should probably describe the input format in an HTML format or something, instead of doing it as embedded comments.

Gotcha; I figured I should do a better job.

There are now instructions.

I still don't understand how that thing works. How can I define the language?

The G2LF file is the language.

Where is the G2LF file?

You make the G2LF file. Most of the stuff on the page is how to make one.

Looks interesting, but what would be even more useful is something that could go the other way, probably - an autoglosser.

The main purpose is for writing grammars. When you are in the syntax section, who wants to constantly go back to the morphology section every time you use an example?

faiuwle wrote:Looks interesting, but what would be even more useful is something that could go the other way, probably - an autoglosser.

You can do that with SIL's Toolbox. (Also, supposedly, with the newer but much more complex Fieldworks, which I have no personal experience with.)

Fieldworks requires Microsoft SQL Server though. Complete with hardware compatibility issues. (Yeah, that's right: hardware issues. Microsoft's support page said something about MS SQL Server not working on multi-core processors, or something like that.)