Writing German

target: de — German, Deutsch, written left to right in the Latin alphabet: the studio cannot tell it from the prose, so every run of it is marked.

1. Every run is marked#

Any mark sets a word or a group as German: […]{tl}, German’s code […]{de}, a colour, a pronunciation, or any other word in the braces but la, ltr and math. A noun is best marked with its article, which belongs to it.

---target: de---[das Buch]{teal translit:das bu:x} = *the book*, [die Straße]{tl} = *the street*,and [ich]{translit:iç} = *I*.[Das Wetter ist heute schön.]{tl bg=sage}

A whole paragraph marked […]{tl} is a block, and takes bg=; inside a line the options are not read. There are no automatic paragraphs and no display lines. A wrong form is a marked run after ✗: ✗[gegeht]{tl}.

2. Face#

German is set in the prose’s own face, TeX Gyre Pagella, at the prose’s size; it has no second face and is not set vertically. On paper, lang: de in the front matter breaks German prose by the modern patterns.

3. Vocabulary entries#

Any ## heading with two parts or more is a vocabulary entry, so a section title in a German document cannot hold a |. The headword may be the noun with its article.

---target: de---## das Buch | das bu:x | Old High German *buoh* | = *book*## [die Zeit]{teal} | di: tsait | = *time*

4. Pronunciation#

A pronunciation line, given only where the spelling misleads, in small letters, for the whole word or group:

• : after a vowel makes it long (schta:t Staat, schtat Stadt); ' before a syllable puts the stress there (be'zu:xen);
• ch is x after a, o, u, au (bax) and ç everywhere else (iç, 'mä:tçen); final -ig is iç;
• a doubled consonant is written single ('ofen offen);
• v is f ('fa:ta), w is v, z and tz are ts;
• s before a vowel is z ('zone); st and sp at the start of a stem are scht and schp; ß is s;
• a final b d g is p t k (ta:k Tag); a final -er is a ('fa:ta Vater);
• ei is ai, ie is i:, eu and äu are oy; an h after a vowel only lengthens it.

Give one for a length the sense turns on, for every ch, for a stress not on the first syllable, and for a verb with a prefix; leave it out where the spelling already says it.

---target: de---[die Bäckerei]{translit:di: bäke'rai}, [nicht]{teal translit:niçt},[umfahren]{translit:'umfa:ren} *to run over*.

German has no reading: kana: means nothing here.