Abdullah.Alger-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk 06/16/05 11:42 AM
Compared to all of the other concordancing tools I think that Watt's is the simplest to use. Also, what's great about it is that it can handle characters such as <thorn> and <eth>. A nice feature in the program is that you can save the results as an html document, but the drawback is that you cannot save it in xml or any other format except as text.
Are there any concordance programs that allow you to convert to xml?
Abdullah Alger
There are several RTF to XML conversion applications online including:
RTF2F0 XML Converter http://www.rtf2fo.com/features.html
RTF to XML http://www.rtf-to-xml.com/features.html
RTF to XML 5.2.1 http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone16/cat290/35143.htm
I must admit I have not used these, so I cannot vouch for their effectiveness (or lack thereof); however, opening a text file (from Watt's Concordance) in Word, saving as RTF, then using a converter to create an XML file might work.
---Laurie
Laurie Ringer Assistant Professor of English Canadian University College Lacombe, AB T4L 2E5 (phone) 403.782.3381, ext. 4085 (fax) 403.782.0735
Quoting Godfried Croenen g.croenen@liverpool.ac.uk:
Hi Laurie,
I am still using TACT 1.2 when I need a concordance and I am happy to answer TACT queries if I can.
I was not aware of R.J.C. Watt's programme Concordance, although I had
a
look at the website and will try it out. But I can see already a
number of
difficult problems with my corpus, as I have often encoded page breaks
or
line breaks in the middle of words, which the programme apparently
cannot
handle.
I have also used WordSmith tools and find it useful, although it is a different kind of programme, mainly aimed for doing corpus linguistics
and
hence not that good in formating and referencing the texts sections.
Maybe you should also try out the TAPOR tool at http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/
Best,
Godfried
--On 15 June 2005 13:25 -0600 Laurie Ringer lringer@CAUC.CA wrote:
I am producing a concordance of the English vernacular texts that scholarship allows as Wycliffite or Lollard in persuasion. I would
like
to add more texts, and am attempting to work out a few issues on
which I
wondered if anyone might have advice.
For information I have recently been using R.J.C. Watt's programme Concordance (http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/); however, due to
a
significant problem with hyphenated words---Watt's Help file specifically states that it does not treat hyphenated words, which
are
divided between 2 lines, as single words---I am thinking of switching back to TACT or to another programme.
It's been some years since I used TACT. Is anyone fluent in TACT and willing to field the odd question or two which Ian Lancashire's book Using TACT with Electronic Texts does not answer? Or, alternatively,
can
anyone recommend a better programme?
Line numbering: Aside from keying in line numbers by hand (which I
have
been doing), is there a macro or application that can automate the
line
numbering process in large numbers of texts in Word or Word Pad?
Page numbering: As above, is there a macro or application that can automate the page numbering process in large numbers of texts? NB:
the
end of the printed page in electronic format rarely corresponds with
the
end of a Word or Word Pad page.
Many thanks for any suggestions anyone might be able to make. ---Laurie
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