lua-igt

Pure lua module for converting interlinear glosses to HTML.

Available as a library and as a pandoc filter.

Installation

luarocks install lua-igt

Or download.

Library usage

-- example.lua
local igt = require "igt"

local html = igt.compile [[
    ne-e a-khim-chi n-yuNNa
    DEM-LOC 1SG.POSS-house-PL 3NSG-be.NPST
    "Here are my houses."
]]

print(html)

(Example taken from the Leipzig Glossing Rules)

Note: If you installed lua-igt in a custom directory (e.g. lua_modules), you may have to update package.path before loading igt, like so:

-- before.lua
local version = _VERSION:match "%d+%.%d+"
package.path = "lua_modules/share/lua/" .. version .. "/?.lua;lua_modules/share/lua/" .. version .. "/?/init.lua;" .. package.path

Then load before.lua before running the script:

lua -l before example.lua

Pandoc filter usage

The pandoc filter converts every code block containing the gloss class into a nicely formatted gloss. It tries to follow the conventions described by the Leipzig Glossing Rules. There's a pre-defined list of glossing abbreviations, but you can define your own abbreviations using a YAML file.

See examples.

Styling

Add this to your CSS stylesheet:

.igt {
  margin: 1em 2em;
}
.igt-label {
  font-variant: small-caps;
  text-decoration: underline dashed;
  text-transform: lowercase;
}

License

MIT