"Columns" command

[Ann Peters]

I just want to go on record that I, too, have found Columns very useful in 
my work. I understand the formatting problems, and also the priority 
problems, but being able to skim down a *column* of one person's speech, 
while still being able to access what else is going on, has been extremely 
useful.
ann

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Co-Graduate Chair                   http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/
Department of Linguistics
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Brian MacWhinney wrote:

>
> Dear Sue,
>     I am afraid that we can't commit Leonid's time to this now.  If
> we resurrect COLUMNS,
> we would want to do so in a more general way.  However, even in that
> case, the formatting issues involved in making
> COLUMNS output fit into the right "squares" are pretty serious.  I can
> imagine a highly restricted simple
> form of COLUMNS that allows for only two speakers and no dependent
> tiers.  But, given the limitations
> this would impose, I wonder if it would not end up being misleading.
>
> -- Brian
>
> On Nov 3, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Sue Blackwell wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Leonid and all,
>>
>> Has the "columns" command been definitively abolished?  I did
>> ask about this some time back and recall that it was being looked
>> into.
>>
>> It was such a useful command for (a) producing handouts for teaching
>> purposes showing the different speakers, and (b) giving students an
>> easy command to try out in the introductory seminar on using CLAN.
>>
>> Any chance of reviving it in the new version of CLAN?
>>
>> many thanks,
>>
>> Sue
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sue Blackwell
>> Department of English,
>> The University of Birmingham,
>> Edgbaston,
>> BIRMINGHAM   B15 2TT
>>
>> Phone:  +44 - 0121-414-3219
>> Fax:    +44 - 0121-414-5668
>>
>> e-mail:  S.A.Blackwell at bham.ac.uk
>>
>> Official University page:
>> http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/who/blackwell.htm
>> Unofficial University Home Page: http://web.bham.ac.uk/sue_blackwell
>> Personal, Trade Union and Political Pages: http://www.sue.be
>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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