chstring not working

Tue Jun 25 11:02:18 UTC 2019

Dear Leonid

I am trying to work with chstring but I can't get it to work, even on data 
sets for which I have used chstring in the past, so I wonder if something 
is wrong with it.
We are hoping to use it to insert morphosyntactic codes into the main tier 
for a hindi transcript. The reason is that there is no grammar for Hindi 
under CLAN so we thought we could use chstring to insert the codes into the 
main tier. I have created a changes.cut file which is in the same directory 
as the files I want to use. I have also downloaded the latest version of 
CLAN. I have also got the unicode font installed. The file on which I have 
tried it contains "gaya", "gayi" and "karke" so the issue is not that the 
items are not in the text.

I have pasted the output in below. I get the same results for English files 
that I have in the past changed with chstring. No changes made.

The changes.cut file attached, but an overview of the changes we are hoping 
to make are given below. Of course if you have a different suggestion as to 
what we can do to work with Hindi morphosyntax, then we'd be very grateful. 
thanks a lot for your help.
best wishes
Jeanine

 " gaya " " gaya at mas "  (this inserts the code @mas which stands for 
"masculine" into the main tier)
 " gayyi " " gayyi at fem "
" karke " " karke at temp_sub "
" uska " " uska at poss_mas "
 " uski " " uski at poss_fem "
 " usne " " usne at pron_subj_3SG "

=============
chstring +cchanges.cut @
Tue Jun 25 11:49:24 2019
chstring (20-Jun-2019) is conducting analyses on:
  ALL speaker tiers
****************************************
>From file <c:\Documents\CeLM\ESRC DFID\data analyses\stories\chat 
basics\221134AFKA.cha>

**- NO changes made in this file
Output file <C:\DOCUMENTS\CELM\ESRC DFID\DATA ANALYSES\STORIES\CHAT 
BASICS\output\221134AFKA.chstr.cex>

> chstring +cchanges.cut @
>From string " gaya " to string " gaya at mas "
>From string " gayi " to string " gayi at fem "
>From string " karke " to string " karke at temp_sub "
>From string " uska " to string " uska at poss_mas "
>From string " uski " to string " uski at poss_fem "
>From string " usne " to string " usne at pron_subj_3SG "

chstring +cchanges.cut @
Tue Jun 25 11:56:54 2019
chstring (20-Jun-2019) is conducting analyses on:
  ALL speaker tiers
****************************************
>From file <c:\Documents\CeLM\ESRC DFID\data analyses\stories\chat 
basics\221134AFKA.cha>

**- NO changes made in this file
Output file <C:\DOCUMENTS\CELM\ESRC DFID\DATA ANALYSES\STORIES\CHAT 
BASICS\output\221134AFKA.chstr.cex>

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