Mac Issue: Continuation of main lines

[Brian Macwhinney]

Unfortunately, there is no way to translate Pinyin to Hanzi.  I really wish there were.  This is due to the high level of ambiguity in Pinyin, even with tone marks.  However, one would think that, for basic vocabulary, a rough approximation would work.  There are some online sites that pretend to do this, but they don’t really work.  Alas.

— Brian

> On Aug 9, 2021, at 5:42 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Brian,
> 
> Thank you so much for the fast response and great help. Also, thanks for letting me know about Hanzi. I wish I had known that earlier. 
> 
> On that note, is it possible to automatically translate Pinyin to Hanzi?
> 
> Thank you,
> Elnaz
> Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> University of Utah
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> 
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:09 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Dear Elnaz,
>     I think you are noting that CLANc is not forcing line wrapping.  This is not a problem for any of the analyses.  However, if you prefer to read transcripts with lines that fit in the standard 80-column width, you  can run this command
> chstring +q *.cha +1
> Whenever using +1, make sure you keep a copy of the files  you are changing in case anything goes wrong.
> 
> I would also like to strongly recommend that you transcript Mandarin using Hanzi and not Pinyin.  Our automatic tagger uses Hanzi character input and cannot operate on Pinyin.
> 
> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
> 
> 
> 
> > On Aug 9, 2021, at 2:52 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > My research assistant (also cced here) has the following issue with CLANc. He owns a MacBook (macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6) and works with the latest version of CLANc. 
> > His .cha files have long sentences (as in the 1st screenshot), meaning that CLAN does not automatically separate the long utterances into multiple lines (as in the 2nd screenshot). 
> > 
> > <image.png>
> > 
> > <image.png>
> > My questions are: 
> > 1. Is this a common issue with Mac? if yes, how can we fix it?
> > 2. In terms of functionality, would this issue make any problems with running CLAN operations and analyses? If yes, is there an easy way to fix the old files with long main lines?
> > 
> > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions!
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Elnaz
> > 
> > Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > University of Utah
> > LinkedIn
> > Personal Website
> > 
> > 
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