I've been using Watt's Concordance for months now with OE texts. For line numbers what I have been doing is creating a table in Word and guess-timating how many lines there are then I just paste the text into the table and WA LA! I have a table that separates the text into lines.
Then I copy the table and place it into Excel and then just leave a column empty for my line numbers. Then I type 1, 2, 3 and highlight the text and put the arrow on the bottom right edge of the cell that I typed 3 in and pull it all the way down until the end of the text. You will then have a text which has line numbers. If you need the lines to have a certain code like <L 123> then before you type 1, 2, 3 (above) just format the cell and click 'custom' and type <L #>, click OK and then you just have to do the steps above.
Abdullah
Quoting Laurie Ringer lringer@CAUC.CA:
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
Laurie Ringer Assistant Professor of English Canadian University College Lacombe, AB T4L 2E5 (phone) 403.782.3381, ext. 4085 (fax) 403.782.0735
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