Export tiers as EAF
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(see the section called “How to select multiple files”) you can select
the files from which you want to export a selection of tiers.
Once you have selected your files, Export Tiers from Multiple Files dialog appears.
Figure 173. Exporting by selecting tiers
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To export, do the following:
Select tiers (see the section called “How to select tiers”) for the export.
In the Output 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.