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Re: [SHOEBOX] importing a text

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Friday, July 28, 2000, 19:26
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:

> > From: dirk elzinga > > > > Hey. > > > > I should have been specific about the kinds of trouble I'm having. > > When I follow the steps outlined in the documentation, I get a message > > that several fields have been discarded because the marker wasn't > > found. Which is odd, since TEXTPREP.CCT is supposed to insert the > > correct markers as part of the conversion. Also, when I do get the > > text, the sentences are arranged in alphabetical order rather than > > sequentially. Weird. > > Well, I am glad that so many of us are trying Shoebox after my initial post > even if some of us are struggling to make it work. I haven't tried > importing a file (been typing the text directly into an interlinear file in > Shoebox) so I can't help you there. I'll give it a try later today to see > if I experience the same difficulties.
I was hoping to avoid typing in the text by hand, since part of what I'd like to be able to do with Shoebox is actually work-related; I would like to try to create some projects which would contain Gosiute dictionaries and texts as well as grammatical information for eventual publication in a comprehensive Gosiute reference grammar. I already have some texts on my hard drive, and I want to be able to import them to Shoebox to work with them there.
> If all else fails, you might try > setting up an interlinear database type and opening a new file of that type. > You could then cut and past from your original text into the interlinear > file adding the \t tag where appropriate.
I'll try that. I'm playing with some Shemspreg stuff right now to get the feel for the program; after I figure things out (what works, what doesn't; what's useful, what's not), I wanted to get started on the Gosiute data. I remember downloading Shoebox a couple of years ago and trying it out then. I was daunted by the size and unintuitive nature of the program then, but since the Shoebox thread came up on this list, I thought I'd give it another go. Working through the Walkthrough was pretty easy, and that encouraged me to actually use the program. But if I can't import the text files I already have, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of point to it except for goofing around with my constructed language projects; my time at work is too precious to retype pages and pages of oral narratives again, and I can't afford an RA right now. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu