Just like in many other applications, you can reuse elements you are editing with the well-known copy and paste operations. To copy an annotation do the following:
Select the annotation
Right click on it and select CTRL+C
, select the same option in the Annotation drop-down menu or pressIn a similar way you can paste these annotations from the clipboard into ELAN:
Go to the tier where you want to paste the annotation
Select CTRL+V
or pressAnnotations can only be pasted onto tiers of the same linguistic type! If you want to copy the annotation to a tier of a different type, use Duplicate Annotation (see the section called “Duplicate annotation”).
Please note that pasting an annotation can result in different behavior according to the context:
By default the annotation is pasted onto the tier where it originates from.
If that is impossible (i.e. there is no tier with the same name as the originating tier, e.g. in another file) the copy of the annotation will be placed on the active tier (see the section called “Make a tier the active tier” on how to activate a tier)
However, pasting an annotation will never change the time alignment of that annotation unit. This means that the annotation will be placed on exactly the same time as it was found when the copy operation was performed. If you want to change its timing, move it afterwards or use the Paste annotation here option (see the section called “Paste annotation here”).
Using this function (CTRL+SHIFT+V) you can copy an existing annotation to any tier and time you want. (Of course the tier still has to belong to the same linguistic type). The copy will be placed on the position of the crosshair on the active tier.
or pressRight click somewhere in the timeline viewer and select
from the context menu to copy the annotation to the position of the mouse cursor – both the tier and the time position.When copying and pasting annotations, only the selected annotation will be copied and pasted. If you want the annotation including all its child annotations (those on the dependent tiers) to be transferred, select
, accessed via the main menu item or in the context menu (opened by right clicking), and
via the main menu item or via the main menu or the context menu.
Pasting all annotations in a copied annotation group only works if the tier structure (the dependent tiers and their linguistic types) of the source is the same as the tier structure of the destination. Or alternatively, the source and destination should follow the same naming convention. An example in which the destination follows the same naming convention is shown in
Figure 5.73. Copying a annotation group
The annotations from the tiers labeled W-RGU, W-RGph and W-RGMe were copied by
. Then they were pasted on the tier labeled M-RGU. Since that tier and the tiers labeled M-RGph and M-RGMe follow the same naming convention as the source tiers (the suffixes match) the annotation group could be pasted on the three target tiers M-RGU, M-RGph and M-RGMe. Note that the tier structure of the target tiers is different from that of the source tiers.Select an annotation and make the tier where you want it to be duplicated the active tier. Now select CTRL+D to create an exact copy of the annotation onto the active tier. This function also works for tiers that don't share the linguistic type.
or press