Converting doc transcripts to CHAT; Cylliric alphabet; inconvenient special symbols

[bartsch]

Dear Leonid,

You're really such a gem! Thank you for this hint, it works wonderfully (at
least on a PC).

Kind regards,
Susanna


On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:29:12 -0400, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
> 
> Susanna,
> 
>     If cut&paste doesn't work, then try to save your windows doc
documents
> in MS Word using "File->Save As..." menu.
> 
> 1 add "@UTF8" line at the top of the file . This should be on the very
> first
> line by itself.
> 
> 2 Select "File->Save As..." menu. In the "Save As" dialog in "Format:" or
> "Save as type" pop-up menu select "Plain Text (.txt)" and press "Save"
> button.
> 
> 3 After that you should see "File Conversion" dialog box. Click on "Other
> encoding:" box and select "Unicode UTF-8" encoding and press OK.
> 
> 4 Next change the extension of the file to ".cha" and open it with CLAN.
> 
> If the file doesn't look the same as it does in MS Word, then please sent
> us
> one sample doc file that you are trying to convert and we'll try to
figure
> out a procedure to do the conversion. You can send the sample file
> directly
> to me instead of chibolts at googlegroups.com.
> 
> Leonid.
> 
> 
> On 24-03-09 17:51, "bartsch" <bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In behalf of a colleague working with a large corpus of Bulgarian
>> transcripts, I'd like to ask for help with regard to following issues:
>>
>> 1. Is there any efficient way to painlessly convert transcripts
> originally
>> written with Word (.doc) to CHAT transcripts? Which kind of corrections
>> might be necessary after converting?
>>
>> 2. We attempted to produce CHAT transcripts by copying&pasting from Word
>> files to CHAT files. One problem was that the Cylliric letters got lost
> in
>> the copy & paste action. We are wondering whether this has something to
> do
>> with the computer being used. I hadn't this problem with my PC (Windows
>> Vista), while my colleague has a Mac (OS X 10.4.11).
>>
>> 3. Another problem observed by copying & pasting was the generation of
>> unwanted symbols in the CHAT file.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks and kind regards,
>> Susanna
>>
> 
> 
> 
> > 
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