Printing: Cascading Lines
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Printing: Cascading Lines
Hello all,
I have imported an mp4 video into ELAN 3.8.1 and created seven new lines, each time leaving "linguistic type" at default. After filling all seven lines for six minutes of video material (which took me two weeks), I wanted to print it out.
Problem: All annotations are printed as a waterfall. If ELAN shows them exactly beneath each other on all seven lines (start and end time of each annotation is exactly the same), then still the annotation of the first line is printed first, then AFTER that the annotation of the second line is printed (on the second line) and so on.
So instead of
WORD
TYPE
IPA
I am getting
WORD
____TYPE
________IPA
And that despite setting everything in the print menu exactly as it is shown in the manual screenshot. Please help! Did I set up the lines incorrectly? Do I have to group them or assign specific linguistic types to make them show up as a block?
Re: Printing: Cascading Lines
The default printing settings are tailored to printing of groups of interrelated tiers in an interlinearized way. As all your tiers are independent (no parent-child relations) you have to change the "Wrap Blocks" option to "Each Block". This causes each line in the output to start at the beginning of the area for the annotations. But this also means that you have only one annotation ("WORD") per line. Make sure to click the Apply Changes button to see the effect after changing settings.
-Han
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