[Lingtyp] ELAN FLEx ELAN round trip

[Matthew Windsor]

Hi Eline,

I'm also waiting for this process to get easier one day. One recent
improvement since FLEx 9 is that you can create custom text fields which
match the tier names of your ELAN project, so that all your tiers can make
the round trip.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:25 PM Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eline,
>
> I'm curious what it is you want to do, that requires a second pass through
> FLEx.
>
> I've had to think about this with my work, since some of my recordings are
> conversations, which FLEx doesn't handle very well, so generally I just
> have a separate EAF file per speaker, tag and gloss each separately in
> FLEx, then merge all of them together in a single ELAN file with the 'merge
> transcription' function. That ensures that any extra tiers you have that
> FLEx may ignore make into the final ELAN file.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 2:02 AM Eline Visser <eelienu at pm.me> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone hacked ELAN and FLEx yet so that one can go back and forth
>> between the two programmes without losing annotations? Afaik one can go
>> from ELAN to FLEx and back to ELAN, but not a second time to FLEx. There is
>> a manual that involves a tier-renaming script at
>> https://hughp.gitbooks.io/the-flex-anti-manual/content/chapter8.html,
>> but I can't make it work. Is there a more fool-proof way yet?
>>
>> Eline Visser
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