<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see answers below in your email.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Leonid.
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 23, 2021, at 15:03, Elnaz Kia <<a href="mailto:ek325@nau.edu" class="">ek325@nau.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p class="">Hello again everyone,</p><p class="">Sorry for bombarding you with questions. I have categorized my questions into 4 sections. I would appreciate any tips on any of the questions.</p><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">1. Punctuation Marks</font></b></p><p class="">On the 2021 CLAN and
CHAT manuals, some punctuation marks have spaces before them and some don't. Is
there a specific reason for that? The CHAT manual (2021, p.102) says: "For clarity, final punctuation on the main line is preceded by a space."</p><p class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Q1</span>: Should I add spaces before punctuation marks or not? </p></div></blockquote>Punctuation marks that start with '+' character must have space character before them. Basic punctuations, like <font color="#ff2600" class="">. ! ?</font>, do not need space characters, but having space character will not make any difference.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class="">Q2</b>: I have added spaces so far. If the answer to Q1 is no, then how can I remove spaces before
punctuation marks in CLAN?</p></div></blockquote>I would suggest to leave space characters. They do add clarity.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">2. Creating text files from .cha files</font></b></p><p class="">I wonder how everyone
creates text files from the chat files. I do a simple save as .txt and then add
angle brackets around the header lines so that I can later use the text files
with concordance apps. My questions are:</p><p class=""><b class="">Q3: </b>how can I create text files
(with headers) in batch. </p></div></blockquote>All CHAT, i.e. <font color="#ff2600" class="">.cha</font> files, are already regular text files encoded in UTF-8 format. All you have to do is to change the file extension.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class="">Q4: </b>How can I save a .cha file as
.txt, without showing the bullets?</p></div></blockquote>You can use command "chstring +cbullets.cut *.cha" to remove bullets from all *.cha files. CLAN is distributed with special script files, like bullets.cut, that are used to do file cleanups. Those files are located in <font color="#ff2600" class="">CLAN/lib/<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">fixes</span></font> folder</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class="">Q5: </b>Is it possible to use FLO and instead of creating the %flo line, directly apply the changes to the speaker line?</p></div></blockquote>Use FLO command with +d option. This will also do what you want in <b class="">Q4:</b><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""> 3. Running CHECK</font></b></p><p class="">When I run <font color="#ff0000" class="">check +re
*.cha</font>, I get the following error. However, when I open the file, it passes
check (it doesn't have any problems with having space after @comment). </p><p class=""><b class="">Q6:</b> Why is that?</p><p class=""> @Comment: </p><p class="">Illegal character
'<space>' found in tier text.</p></div></blockquote>This is possibly because you an have an extra space character in the comment line. Or right after the colon character. Tab character must be after the colon. Because space characters are invisible it is very difficult to highlight or locate the error. Please email that file to me directly to see what is wrong and maybe changing error message. </div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">4. Changing File Names and Extensions</font></b></p><p class=""><b class="">Q7: </b>How
can I automatically change the file name and extensions for all the files that
end in<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">
-silent</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">.aif
</span></p><p class="">Example: <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">f0078c07raa_1-silent.aif --> f0078c07raa_1.mp3</span></p></div></blockquote>I would very much not recommend you do that, because .aif stands for AIFF audio media encoding format. It is not compressed format like .mp3 and if you change the extension, then this audio file might not be playable by sound players. You need to use sound editor to re-encode the audio file from one format to another. We use <font color="#ff2600" class="">Amadeus Pro</font> for sound editing. Other popular sound editor is <font color="#ff2600" class="">Audacity</font>.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you want to just remove the <font color="#ff2600" class="">-silent</font> part from filename, then you can use <font color="#ff2600" class="">ren *</font><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">-silent.aif *.aif</font> command.</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p class=""> I truly appreciate your help. </p><p class="">P.S. I use CLAN v05 (Feb, 2021). </p><p class="">Many thanks,</p><p class="">Elnaz</p><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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