Some ideas about glosses:
1) Having partial completion of glosses (like the Font menu in
Word). Entering a partial gloss item would call up items from,
perhaps, the template list.
2) Have floating palettes wih glosses entered (can be user
defined). Perhaps adding a new gloss to the list could be a user
preference (currently it is automatic for non-gloss items: new
values are added to the value list.)