Mac Issue: Continuation of main lines

[Elnaz Kia]

Dear Brian,

Thank you so much for the fast response and great help. Also, thanks for
letting me know about Hanzi. I wish I had known that earlier.

On that note, is it possible to automatically translate Pinyin to Hanzi?

Thank you,
Elnaz

Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:09 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Elnaz,
>     I think you are noting that CLANc is not forcing line wrapping.  This
> is not a problem for any of the analyses.  However, if you prefer to read
> transcripts with lines that fit in the standard 80-column width, you  can
> run this command
> chstring +q *.cha +1
> Whenever using +1, make sure you keep a copy of the files  you are
> changing in case anything goes wrong.
>
> I would also like to strongly recommend that you transcript Mandarin using
> Hanzi and not Pinyin.  Our automatic tagger uses Hanzi character input and
> cannot operate on Pinyin.
>
> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
>
>
>
> > On Aug 9, 2021, at 2:52 PM, Elnaz Kia <ek325 at nau.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My research assistant (also cced here) has the following issue with
> CLANc. He owns a MacBook (macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6) and works with the
> latest version of CLANc.
> > His .cha files have long sentences (as in the 1st screenshot), meaning
> that CLAN does not automatically separate the long utterances into multiple
> lines (as in the 2nd screenshot).
> >
> > <image.png>
> >
> > <image.png>
> > My questions are:
> > 1. Is this a common issue with Mac? if yes, how can we fix it?
> > 2. In terms of functionality, would this issue make any problems with
> running CLAN operations and analyses? If yes, is there an easy way to fix
> the old files with long main lines?
> >
> > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions!
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Elnaz
> >
> > Elnaz Kia, Ph.D. (she, her, hers)
> > Post-Doctoral Research Associate
> > Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC)
> > University of Utah
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> > Personal Website
> >
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