to see one tx line at a time
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to see one tx line at a time
hello - <br><br>i'm using ELAN to check my transcriptions in shoebox files that have already been interlinearized. i would like to see the entire \tx line/tier at once, (for example, in the Grid tab) so that i can view it while the audio plays. ELAN puts just one word at a time in each line, apparently because the text file has added spaces between words to align the following \mr line/tier. <br><br>i noticed that in the manual the files have an additional line, called 'words', and yes i could manually make a copy of every \tx line as a \wd line, which i can then see as an entire unit. i could, if i wanted to spend the rest of my life doing this, heh heh. <br><br>is there an alternative? do i need to set up something differently, for example, some kind of mask of the \tx line that would let me view it as a whole? <br><br>thanks,<br>loretta<br>
Re: to see one tx line at a time
Since the \tx marker apparently is part of the iterlinearization in Toolbox, an annotation for each individual word is created in ELAN. There is currently no option in ELAN to concatenate all annotations with the same parent to one new annotation. Maybe in a future release. I'm not sure if Toolbox has such an option.
If you are using ELAN only for viewing purposes you could do the following: import the Toolbox file with the 'field marker' option (see manual). Make sure that the \tx marker is defined as a "Symbolic Association" child tier of the record marker (e.g. ref). Exclude all other markers that are part of the interlinearization from import (checkbox). If all is right the words on the \tx marker will be concatenated to one annotation in this case.
If needed you could rename the tier and save the transcription, import the Toolbox file again in the 'normal' way, save this document as well and merge them through File -> Merge Transcriptions...
Han
Re: Re: to see one tx line at a time
Thanks for the advice. I decided to create a new field in Toolbox, \trs, that I keep whole. Now all I have to do is remember to duplicate any editing in the \trs and \tx fields. <br><br>My partner wrote a quick Python script to copy existing \tx fields to a \trs field within each record, omitting blanks as needed. Works like a charm. If anyone would like a copy, please let me know. <br><br>Loretta<br><br><br>
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