Illegal characters errors message Ellipses on Mac

[Amanda Huensch]

Ah, makes perfect sense. Thank you!

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 11:25 PM, spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Amanda,
>
> The eclips character is illegal as pause specification. You can use three
> separate period characters in a row, but not a single character that looks
> like three periods. The reason your student got an error message is because
> she is using the latest CLAN and you do not get an error, because you are
> using an older version of CLAN that does not check for this character. It
> is always best to update your CLAN as often as possible, otherwise you will
> have errors in your transcripts.
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>
> On Sep 25, 2015, at 21:01, Amanda Huensch <amandahuensch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone-
>
> I have an RA checking transcripts (using a Mac) and she reported an
> illegal characters error message when she does esc+L (image attached). This
> error message was not present when I checked the files (on a PC).
>
> The error is identifying the ellipses in the transcript as illegal. A
> quick fix is just for her to re-type the three periods, but I also wanted
> to try to figure out why the issue happened in the first place. Does anyone
> know why that might be the case? She says she's running the most updated
> version of CLAN. I was trying to figure out if it had something to do with
> her being on a mac and me being on a PC? Or some automatic formatting of
> ellipses?
>
> Thank you for any insights you might have!
> Amanda
>
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