I have a lot of texts that are already time-aligned in Elan via SayMore, has anyone tried exporting from Elan for the timing text?
Would adding a label tier with the alphabetical labels and exporting as tab-delimited text work?
If yes, I have some further questions:
Would it work okay with numbers rather than letters as these can be generated automatically in Elan?
And for books with more than 26 phrases what should the labels look like? Or if using numbers, should a book with eleven pages be labelled 1-11 or 01-11?
Happy to play around and see but if someone’s already worked out how to do this it would be great to hear about it!
Hello Eleanor, I don’t know of anyone who is exporting timing information from ELAN to RAB, but it would be interesting to hear how you get on.
Labels need to be a, b, c…z, then aa, ab, ac… az, ba, bb, bc,… You cannot use numbers at the moment, but I will make a note of this as an enhancement request.
Hi, yes, this would be great to allow numbers. We’ve created a custom field in FLEx, in interlinear segments that stores in and out offsets. Using FLExText, I export sfm files for Reading App Builder and timing files. I have a function in the XSLT that converts sequence numbers to a, b, c…z, aa, bb, cc… but ideally we could use the number instead of the letter.
Are there assumptions about numbers in the timing file. Do those assumptions relate to verse numbers in Scripture App Builder?