The button
incorporates multiple functions. You can access these by just clicking on the button, the options will appear below it.Figure 139. Other functions
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The functions available are:
This allows you to send a mail containing the selected comment in XML format to another user. (you must have a native mail application installed for this to work).
. This sends the current comment-info in XML-format to the clipboard so you can paste it in another application, or re-use it later in ELAN.
. This allows you to paste data from the clipboard into the comments field. This needs to be in XML-format to work. If you have received an e-mail containing comment-data, you can copy that data to the clipboard and use this function to add the comment to the list.
This function allows you to search for a comment in the list of current comments. This is done by entering a regular expression, and can be set to search all columns or a single column.
Clipboard and e-mail comment function
Copying data to the clipboard or sending it via e-mail will be done in XML format. When you click the the section called “Comments setup and settings”. The data in the e-mail will look like this:
option, your local e-mail application will open and create a new message. It will also fill out the recipient address that is associated with the comment you selected. The recipient can be filled out in the settings, see
Figure 140. E-mail a comment
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When you receive an e-mail, just select all the xml-data and copy that to the clipboard. Next, in ELAN choose
and the comment will be added to the list of comments.In a similar fashion, you can also copy data to and from the clipboard. This can be helpful if you use a web-based e-mail client or for if you want to copy multiple comments to a text-document, for instance.