Writing Spanish

target: es — Spanish, español, 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 Spanish: […]{tl}, Spanish’s code […]{es}, a colour, a pronunciation, or any other word in the braces but la, ltr and math.

---target: es---[hola]{translit:ola} = *hello*, [la gente]{teal translit:la xente} = *the people*,and [la calle]{es} = *the street*.[¿Dónde está la estación?]{tl bg=rose}

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 ✗: ✗[sabo]{tl}.

2. Face#

Spanish 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.

3. Vocabulary entries#

Any ## heading with two parts or more is a vocabulary entry, so a section title in a Spanish document cannot hold a |.

---target: es---## hijo | ixo | Latin *filius* | = *son*## [calle]{teal translit:kaʝe} | | = *street*

4. Pronunciation#

Spanish spelling is nearly a map of its sound, and a pronunciation is given only where it does not say it — for the whole word or group:

g before e or i, and j

, written x: gente xente, hijo ixo;

a silent h

, left out: hola ola;

ll and y

, written ʝ: calle kaʝe, yo ʝo;

c before e or i, and z

: s or θ, as the recording says it, one answer through a document;

qu, gu

before e or i are k, g (queso keso); ü puts the u back (pingüino pingwino);

a word-initial r

is the trill, rr (rojo rroxo);

ñ

is ɲ.

Stress is never marked: Spanish writes an accent wherever the stress is not where the rule puts it, and a pronunciation keeps the word’s own accent (corazón korasón). Vowel quality is not marked either.

---target: es---[el queso]{translit:el keso}, [el año]{translit:el aɲo}, [rojo]{teal translit:rroxo}.

Spanish has no reading: kana: means nothing here.