[texhax] making brackets (linguistics)

[Paul Isambert]

The solution to HPSG's AVMs is indeed, avm.sty, although it has kind of 
disappeared as such on CTAN.
The AVMs in the German Wikipedia aren't different, simply less well made 
(at least I'm more used to the English version).
And I'm sorry I mistakenly made an answer to Marcia directly some days 
ago, instead of to the list, which is why there's a kind of double 
conversation. I think AVMs in Word will be extraordinarily painful, but 
learning TeX is painful too :)

Paul


Uwe Lück a écrit :
> [strange, failed to send it to texhax yesterday. actually, Paul 
> Isambert is a linguist reading this list. "making brackets" even seems 
> not to express connection with linguistics! -- Uwe.]
>
> At 13:46 07.04.10, Marcia Beach wrote:
>
>> Susan and Uwe:  I am referring to the large brackets that embrace 
>> lines of text in HPSG.     Also I need the "greater than" and 
>> "lesser-than" angled brackets that also embrace lines of text.  Am 
>> trying to see if it can be done in Word 2007, since those are just 
>> about all the symbols I need.  Perhaps I won't have to download the 
>> whole LaTex program if I can figure out a way to do it in Word.  Am 
>> generally quite non-techy when it comes to these things.  Thank you 
>> both for your suggestions.   Marcia
>
> So we see what you need on
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-driven_phrase_structure_grammar
>
> (in my view) different kinds of diagrams are in the German version
>
>     http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-driven_Phrase_Structure_Grammar
>
> (You must not assume that linguists read this mailing list.)
>
> I don't know if this can be achieved with Word. Even with TeX it is 
> not very easy for me right now. There may be special packages for this at
>
>     http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#misctables
>
> especially bigdelim or delarray. A special HPSG package may be 
> valuable, but I can't find any and ... LingTrees seems to have some 
> HPSG functionality (p. 14):
>
>     
> http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/LingTrees/lingtrees.doc.pdf
>
> as well as xyling (p. 19):
>
>     
> ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xyling/xyli-doc.pdf 
>
>
> That special "bracket" notation seems to be implemented by avm.sty 
> (attribute-value matrices) seemingly belonging to the LingTrees 
> bundle. I can't find its original documentation avm-doc, but in 
> searching I found this overview by Christina Thiele in a TUGboat from 
> 1995
>
>     http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb16-1/tb46ling.pdf
>
> maybe someone else finds something more recent like this.
>
> HTH -- Uwe.
>