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Feedbacks about ELAN (how to use the pref settings for CV drop down menus) #21

Closed juzza81 closed 7 years ago

juzza81 commented 7 years ago

Hey,

We here in Finland use strongly ELAN 4.9.4 version connected similarly to Signbank for our annotating corpus videos.

We consider how there could see a long gloss holistically on a list, see our example below where can be seen some glosses are uncompleted:

We would hope to see glosses as full letters included.

screen shot 2017-02-08 at 9 06 10 am

henrinie commented 7 years ago

There are two columns of which the first one is smaller, because of that the gloss names don't always fit in there. I agree that this should be changed, because the gloss name is what the user is mainly looking for. @vanlummelhuizen is it possible to resize the first column to be larger in width?

vanlummelhuizen commented 7 years ago

In the preferences you can tweak the appearance of the CV panel (Edit > Preferences > Edit Preferences... , select CV). You can change the width of the complete edit box as well as the description column.

@henrinie does this help?

@juzza81 From you screenshot it seems you do not use a two column set up. Is that the case? If I test it will show entries of at least 15 characters without a problem. If I could have your ECV (or the public link if there is one) I could test a bit. Pleas also mention your platform (Windows, OSX, ...).

As a side note, your issue concerns an official release of ELAN and therefore it should probably be directed at the main developer of ELAN, Han Sloetjes at the MPI Nijmegen (http://www.mpi.nl/people/sloetjes-han, also see https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/). Issues discussed here are mainly about things in development.

henrinie commented 7 years ago

@vanlummelhuizen Thanks, that helped. Sorry for bothering you, I was not aware of such setting as I don't use ELAN (much). @juzza81 if you change the width (percentage) of the first column, you need to reload the elan-file you were editing for the setting to take place.

@vanlummelhuizen And we actually use the two column setup, first one for the gloss, second for comments.

vanlummelhuizen commented 7 years ago

Good. Happy to help. Shall we close this issue?

juzza81 commented 7 years ago

Great and this really helped us to find more comfortable way to annotate. Thanks for that.

Yeah, let´s close this issue.