[Lexicog] Shoebox filename glitch

[Conor McDonough Quinn]

Dia dhuit, a chara!

This is not a solution for your present problem, but perhaps to avoid it
in the future, you can use Roman letters (caps are nice and clear and
distinguishable from the filename):

"shoehorn2.wav"		-->	"shoehornII.wav"

Either that or

"shoehorn-II.wav"

or better

"shoehorn_II.wav"

If you use a distinct enough labeling approach, the filename itself will
have a recognizable substring that identifies that part of the overall
filename string as an "alternate"-indicating number.  This bit of covert
tagging in the filename itself might be additionally useful, when and if
you ever want to single out / search for all the alternate forms.  This is
something a student might want to do---e.g. "Well, I know all the basic
forms, perhaps I should familiarize myself with variants now."

As for your present problem---I imagine a script could replace all the
numbers in string "filname[number].wav" with Roman numerals.  You'd have
to be careful that "shoehorn22.wav" doesn't become "shoehornIIII.wav", but
other than that, it should be pretty straightforward.  Of course, I don't
know how to write scripts, but this is the sort of thing they're for!

Hope this helps!

Sla/n,
do chara

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Wayne Leman wrote:

> I am using sound files to accompany my Shoebox database. Shoebox nicely
> exports the sound filenames to Microsoft Word where a hyperlink allows one
> to click and hear the sound file. However, I have discovered one glitch in
> the filenaming system. IF you have a sound filename which ends in a number,
> such as one of mine, stars2.wav, indicating a second (alternate)
> pronunciation of the Cheyenne word for 'stars,' and if that filename occurs
> in the \pl (plural) field, Shoebox interprets the number as a subscript for
> export to Word, and no sound file can be heard from that hyperlink in Word.
> In most other fields of a Shoebox record a filename such as star2.wav will
> be exported properly to a hyperlink in Word.
>
> Is there any work-around for this problem or do I need to rename all my
> sound files which end with numbers, to be sure that I will not encounter
> this problem of not being able to access the sound file from within Word? I
> find it helpful to give numbers to the ends of my soundfile names, since
> there are often related words for which numbers are helpful to differentiate
> them, for instance, alternate pronunciation, a woman's voice instead of a
> man's voice, etc. I can, of course, change to using letters "b," "c," etc.,
> at the end of a filename, instead of using numbers, but this can be
> confusing since a letter can sometimes look like part of the word (given in
> the filename) rather than a means to differentiate related files.
>
> I have more than 7,000 sound files, many of which have numbers, so it is a
> fairly big job to rename my files which have numbers in their names, as well
> as revise their filenames in the appropriate fields of Shoebox, hoping I
> catch all instances of each filename (some filenames are properly entered in
> more than one place in my database).
>
> I just experimented to see what would happen with an end-number sound
> filename for a \va (variant) field, and the sound file is not exported at
> all from a \va field.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne Leman
> Cheyenne dictionary project
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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