4.2.42. Exporting tiers from multiple files
Document Actions
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 . In the first dialog you can select the files
from which you want to export a selection of tiers:
Click on the Look in pull down box and browse to the directory that contains the annotation files.
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.Click to continue the exporting process; otherwise click to exit the dialog window without exporting.
To export, do the following:
Choose whether you want to select individual tiers or select tiers with specific linguistic types.
If you want to select individual tiers, make a selection on the Tiers tab and select
Export Selected Tiersin the Extra Options section.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 Typesin the Extra Options section.
In the Options section you can specify...
whether to
Export parent tiers of the selected dependent tiers automaticallyor toOnly export dependent tiers if their parent tiers are selected.whether to
Save files with original namesof toMake 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.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.
whether of not ELAN should export files that result in having no tiers.
Finally, click to export the .eaf files containing only the selected tiers.
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