<div dir="ltr"><div>To my knowledge there is no way to sync changes between ELAN and FLEx, if that is your question. When you transfer information between the two, it creates new tiers/texts, and so it requires some massaging on either end to make it sensible again. <br></div><div><br></div><div>However, as you reference, many people are trying to work on this. You may be interested in an upcoming talk this weekend at the <a href="https://www.ssila.org/2023-annual-meeting">SSILA annual meeting</a>: "flibl: A tool to bolster text transfer between ELAN and FLEx" by Ananthanarayan, Skilton, Pierson & Bowern (Saturday, January 21 @ 11:30am MST/UTC-7). SSILA is fully online and registration is free/by donation.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:02 AM Eline Visser <<a href="mailto:eelienu@pm.me">eelienu@pm.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">Hi,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">Has anyone hacked ELAN and FLEx yet so that one can go back and forth between the two programmes without losing annotations? Afaik one can go from ELAN to FLEx and back to ELAN, but not a second time to FLEx. There is a manual that involves a tier-renaming script at <span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://hughp.gitbooks.io/the-flex-anti-manual/content/chapter8.html" target="_blank">https://hughp.gitbooks.io/the-flex-anti-manual/content/chapter8.html</a></span>, but I can't make it work. Is there a more fool-proof way yet?</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">Eline Visser<br></div>
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