changing utterances in bulleted text

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Shelley,
    Fixing the bullets on a few lines shouldn't mess up anything so radically that you would need to start at the top.  
In the case of merging several utterances into one, my favorite method for this is to 
1.  cut one full bullet to the clipboard from the first utterance.
2.  edit the text to remove all bullets and join the words into one sentence.
3.  paste the bullet from the clipboard to the end of the new sentence you have created.
4.  type command-a to open the bullet and see the time values
5.  edit the end time of the bullet to match the begin time of the next utterance.

You might need to fuss a bit more with the time values if there is overlap.  But this basic method should work.
Just make sure you don't accidentally start clicking on some irrelevant lines or the top of the file.

-- Brian MacW

On Mar 23, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Shelley Brundage wrote:

> hello Chibolts
> We are trying to get reliability among coders for utterance boundaries.  Sometimes a coder splits an utterance into three lines when we think it should be one (e.g., Brian's example of 'milk, milk milk).  How do we 'fix' the wrong file?  WHen we try deleting the lines, we either lose audio or the bulleting gets messed up.  Any simple solutions to this, or would we need to rebullet from the top.  
> 
> The files are quite long, n = 1000+ lines, so rebulleting will take awhile. 
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.  
> 
> Shelley 
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