Part II. USER'S GUIDE
Document Actions
This part of the manual contains the user’s guide. It is organized as follows:
ELAN documents (see Chapter 4)
Screen display and navigation through a document (see Section 4.4)
Annotations (see Chapter 5)
Search Options (see Chapter 7)
It is recommended that you read the relevant section before starting to work with your own data.
Table of Contents
- 4. ELAN documents
- 4.1. Basic Information: Media Files and Annotation Files
- 4.2. How to manage documents
- 4.2.1. Creating a new document
- 4.2.2. Set the author of a document
- 4.2.3. Synchronizing video files
- 4.2.4. Opening an existing document
- 4.2.5. Re-open recently accessed files
- 4.2.6. Switching between multiple files
- 4.2.7. Saving a document
- 4.2.8. Saving a selection as .eaf file
- 4.2.9. Merging transcriptions
- 4.2.10. Saving a template
- 4.2.11. Changing the links to media files
- 4.2.12. Creating automatic backups
- 4.2.13. Printing
- 4.2.14. Configuring the page settings (page setup)
- 4.2.15. Previewing the printed pages
- 4.2.16. Opening a wave file in Praat
- 4.2.17. Exporting a selection to a wave file with Praat
- 4.2.18. Closing a file
- 4.2.19. Exiting ELAN
- 4.3. Import and Export options
- 4.4. Screen display and navigation through a document
- 4.4.1. Basic Information: The ELAN window
- 4.4.2. The Video Viewer
- 4.4.3. The Annotation Density Viewer
- 4.4.4. The Waveform Viewer
- 4.4.5. The Subtitle Viewer
- 4.4.6. The Grid Viewer
- 4.4.7. The Text Viewer
- 4.4.8. The Lexicon Viewer
- 4.4.9. The Metadata Viewer
- 4.4.10. Audio And Video Recognizer
- 4.4.11. The Timeline Viewer and the Interlinear Viewer
- 4.4.12. The Timeseries Viewer
- 4.4.13. The Menu options
- 4.4.14. The Media Player options
- 4.4.15. The color coding
- 4.4.16. Increasing/decreasing the size of the ELAN window
- 4.4.17. Switching Viewers on/off
- 4.4.18. Show / Hide Specific Viewers
- 4.4.19. Increasing/decreasing the size of Viewers
- 4.4.20. Switching tiers on/off
- 4.4.21. Rearranging the order of tiers
- 4.4.22. View tiers by Type/Participant/Annotator
- 4.4.23. Sorting tiers
- 4.4.24. Changing the time zoom
- 4.4.25. Changing the vertical (intensity) zoom
- 4.4.26. Changing the font size
- 4.4.27. Font Browser
- 4.4.28. Editing preferences
- 4.4.29. Importing and exporting preferences
- 4.4.30. Editing shortcuts
- 4.4.31. How to copy current time of the media
- 4.5. How to navigate through a document
- 4.6. How to play a document
- 4.7. Multiple File Operations
- 5. Annotations
- 5.1. Basic Information: Annotations, tiers and linguistic types
- 5.2. Data categories
- 5.3. How to define a linguistic type
- 5.4. How to define a tier and its attributes
- 5.5. Controlled Vocabularies
- 5.6. Consulting a Lexicon
- 5.7. How to make a selection
- 5.7.1. Making a selection on an independent tier
- 5.7.2. Using the selection controls
- 5.7.3. Creating annotation units without gaps
- 5.7.4. Making and saving a selection on a referring tier
- 5.7.5. Deselecting a selection
- 5.7.6. Changing the boundaries of an existing selection and annotation
- 5.7.7. Shifting annotations
- 5.7.8. Activating and deactivating the Bulldozer mode or Shift mode
- 5.8. How to enter annotations
- 5.8.1. Entering annotations (into the Inline Edit box)
- 5.8.2. Entering annotations (into the Edit Annotation box)
- 5.8.3. Entering annotations from a Controlled Vocabulary
- 5.8.4. Entering annotations before/after other annotations
- 5.8.5. Creating depending annotations for a active annotation
- 5.8.6. Creating annotations on dependent tiers
- 5.8.7. Creating annotations from gaps
- 5.8.8. Creating regular annotations
- 5.8.9. Duplicating annotation values
- 5.8.10. Snap Annotations
- 5.8.11. Automatic labelling and numbering
- 5.8.12. Modifying the content of annotations
- 5.8.13. Changing the case of Annotations
- 5.8.14. Deleting annotation values
- 5.8.15. Deleting annotations
- 5.8.16. Deleting annotations and annotation values on multiple tiers
- 5.8.17. Split Annotations
- 5.8.18. Merging annotations
- 5.8.19. Entering annotations in different character sets
- 5.8.20. Associating an annotation with a Data Category
- 5.9. How to create annotation units on dependent tiers
- 5.10. How to filter and copy tiers
- 5.11. How to detect annotation overlaps
- 5.12. Create Annotation By subtraction
- 5.13. Copy and paste annotations
- 5.14. How to undo an action
- 5.15. Information about annotations
- 6. Working modes
- 7. Searching
- 8. Help
- 9. Reference guide
Third party update, regular expressions
