Normally ELAN allows to edit only a single file at a time. There are situations in which it is convenient to edit multiple files at once. The menu item
gives two options to do just this: and . When selecting either of them, you are warned that you should have copies of the files you are going to work on in case you want to restore the files.When you choose
, you first need to specify a new domain or select an existing domain. Do one of the following:Select an existing domain from the list and click
. (Click if you want to delete the domain.)Create a new domain:
Click
Click in the new dialog 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.
Repeat this for every annotation file you want to include.
It is also possible to select a complete directory.
All .eaf
files in a selected
directory will be included.
Click
to continue the exporting process; otherwise click to exit the dialog window without exporting.If you clicked
you can save this domain: enter a name and click . If you do not want to save the domain click .Create a new domain from an IMDI search:
Click
Browse to and select an IMDI file that has been exported from a metadata search in the standalone IMDI Browser.
Click
.You can save this domain: enter a name and click
. If you do not want to save the domain click .In the next dialog, you can specify what characters to delete, new line characters, tab characters and/or whitespace characters, and in what position these characters have to be. Click
to start the scrubbing process. The progress of the scrubbing is shown in the progress bar.The option Tiers tab and linguistic types on the Linguistic Types tab.
shows, after clicking in the warning dialog mentioned above, the Multi File Editor. The first thing to do here is to load a domain by clicking . Loading a domain is the same as for the option. After loading a domain, the data is shown in the table. In this table you can edit tiers on theTo edit a the name, annotator or participant of a tier, double click the corresponding table cell or select it and start typing. To change the linguistic type of a tier, select one from the drop down menu. You can add a tier by clicking
and remove one by clicking .If there are hierarchy inconsistencies (e.g. if a tier in one file does have a parent while a tier with the same name in another file does not) removing tiers is not possible. The button
is therefore greyed out.
On the Linguistic Types tab, the name of a linguistic type
can be changed by double clicking the corresponding table cell in the
Type Name column.