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Putting various colours on annotations?

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Putting various colours on annotations?

Posted by yuki at 2011-04-14 09:51

Hi.
I am wondering if there is a way to colours to annotations. It's not to colour the entire tier with one colour.

Does anybody know?

thanks,
Yuki

Re: Putting various colours on annotations?

Posted by eric at 2011-04-14 11:56

Hi, I think I have no answers for you, alas, but some interesting questions:

Do you mean custom 'word processing' properties in annotations (e.g. bold, underline, color)? That might be possible if one allows annotations to contain HTML. However, such HTML would override other markup / layout effects which ELAN would normally use when you work with / select / ... annotations.

Or do you mean for example that when using a controlled vocabulary in a tier, you could (manually or randomly) assign for each 'word' of the controlled vocabulary a color, so all annotations with that 'word' as value would have the same color (e.g. background color)? I believe the latter would be useful, but I could not find either in the manual so it is probably not possible (yet?).

Talking about the manual, the highlighting of help-search matches is at the wrong (mostly vertical) position for pages which are 'tall', maybe something about window size versus 'canvas' size in the help display?

Regards, Eric

Re: Re: Putting various colours on annotations?

Posted by yuki at 2011-04-15 04:24

Dear Eric, Thanks for replying and thanks for your input. What I wanted to do was something similar to what you said below. I didn't think of using controlled vocabulary, so that's an input I appreciate. If the background of same information or actually same kind of information be marked with the same colour (and different ones with different colours), I don't have to look through every information one by one. I also checked the manual (I just searched 'color'), but didn't tell me anything of what I would liked to see, so I wrote in forum hoping that somebody possess a knowledge beyond the manual :) Yuki

eric-2011-04-14 11:56:56

Hi, I think I have no answers for you, alas, but some interesting questions: using a controlled vocabulary in a tier, you could (manually or randomly) assign for each 'word' of the controlled vocabulary a color, so all annotations with that 'word' as value would have the same color (e.g. background color)?

Re: Putting various colours on annotations?

Posted by hasloe at 2011-04-18 17:21

Yes, applying a color to an annotation can currently only be achieved by using a controlled vocabulary. The "More Options..." button in the Edit CV window allows you to set a color per entry. This color will then be used by some "viewers" in ELAN as the background color for annotations based on the entry.

-Han

Re: Re: Putting various colours on annotations?

Posted by mbs at 2012-02-08 18:26

Hello,
Is there any way to keep the colours of the controlled vocabulary when importing the tiers to a diferent document?
It does not do it when exporting and then importing preferences.
Thank you!