Mac Issue: Continuation of main lines

[Elnaz Kia]

Alas! Thanks anyway!

Best,
Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:57 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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
> > LinkedIn
> > Personal Website
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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