Do one of the following to change the attributes of an already existing tier:
Use the mouse.
In the Timeline Viewer, right-click at about the height of the tier that you want to change. A pull-down menu appears.
In the pull-down menu, click on
. The dialog window for that tier appears.Change the tier attributes in the dialog that now appears and confirm by clicking on
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You can’t change the Parent Tier nor the Linguistic type in this dialog because of possible data loss this alterations would cause. To change these settings in a safe way (i.e. creating a copy of the tier and changing this copy) see Section 5.4.4 and Section 5.4.7). |
Use the Tier menu.
Click on
menu.Go to
Click on the drop down box and select the tier which attributes you want to change. The
dialog window for that tier appears.After making the changes, click on
to save them. Otherwise click to exit the window without saving.Besides the options in the dialog window Change tier attributes there are three more options that can be reached by clicking on the button. In the new dialog window you can change tier name color, tier highlight color (painted as background color) and tier font by clicking , selecting a color or font and clicking . To apply the new color and font click .