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4.2.40. Exporting tiers from multiple files

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4.2.40. Exporting tiers from multiple files

There could be situations in which you want to discard or select tiers from multiple .eaf files, for instance if you want to present a third party with a limited number of tiers. To do so, select File > Export Tiers from Multiple Files.... In the first dialog you can select the files from which you want to export a selection of tiers:

  1. Click on the Look in pull down box and browse to the directory that contains the annotation files.

  2. Double-click an annotation file (*.eaf) to select it. It now appears in the rightmost box. Alternatively, you can click on the annotation file name and click the >> button. You can also include a number of files at once by selecting multiple files and clicking the >> button.

  3. Click OK to continue the exporting process; otherwise click Cancel to exit the dialog window without exporting.

To export, do the following:

  1. Choose whether you want to select individual tiers or select tiers with specific linguistic types.

    1. If you want to select individual tiers, make a selection on the Tiers tab and select Export Selected Tiers in the Extra Options section.

      Exporting by selecting tiers

      Figure 4.52. Exporting by selecting tiers


    2. If you want to select tiers with specific linguistic types, select the appropriate types on the Linguistic Types tab and select Export Tiers With Selected Linguistic Types in the Extra Options section.

      Exporting by selecting linguistic types

      Figure 4.53. Exporting by selecting linguistic types


  2. In the Options section you can specify...

    1. whether to Export parent tiers of the selected dependent tiers automatically or to Only export dependent tiers if their parent tiers are selected.

    2. whether to Save files with original names of to Make use of suffixes. In case of the latter, you can specify whether to save the files with their original name followed by a suffix or to save the files with a new base name and followed by a suffix number.

    3. whether the files should be saved in the original directory, in a (possibly new) directory which is local for each files, or together in the same directory.

    4. whether of not ELAN should export files that result in having no tiers.

  3. Finally, click Export to export the .eaf files containing only the selected tiers.

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Last modified 2010-06-21 10:24
 

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