Emergent: How to paste concordance lines onto WORD without distorting it?

[ysk]

There is a problem that when the concordance lines are copied and
pasted in a WORD.doc file, the lines cannot remain the central
alignment and each example sentence occupies one line in the WORD
file. The result is one A4 page can only have a few citations which
fill up the whole page.
It is ok if the concordance lines are saved as a plain text file, but
when the text is copied to a rich format document such as WORD,
things start to go wrong....
How can we do to have the intact concordance remain neatly when we
need to insert it into our research paper written in a WORD or
OpenOffice Writer format?
Furthermore, how can we select random data from the concordance and
have numbering automatically starts from 1 to the last number? This is
important because not all the retrieval citations are necessarily to
present in our paper.
No dirty work, what is the best way to do it?

[Przemek Kaszubski]

Hello,

Don't have a copy of WST with me at the moment but two things come to mind:

1. Specify the span of words/characters to be copied/saved as text (in the program preferences/setup options)
2. Use built-in copy function rather than the OS copy - highlight a given portion of lines, then click on the applicable button and choose copy to clipboard
3. Paste the copied lines as normal into your word processor, then apply a fixed-width font to the block (e.g. Courier) - it might require shrinking, though.

Hope this helps you along some way.

Przemek

On 31/01/2008, ysk <yush...@googlemail.com> wrote:

A typical word file will look like below (The node word SET UP is not
aligned):

10                                                 A graduate of a Grande
Ecole will be set up for life, not only by the guarantee of a good job
but also through the "o
11                                   Being that were believed to be the
weaker sex, men set up double standards in society.
12      C participate monthly in any of the education, training, or job
search programs set up by the 1988 Family Support Act .
13             Some of the NFL teams that are richer than others, such as
Dallas, could set up a fund for an organization like one of these and
put the money to good u
14
It set-up a whole network of global systems.
15      though, that is the most political stance we all know that most
politicians who set these laws up use drugs themselves.

[ysk]

Thanks, Dr.Kaszubski.

On Jan 31, 8:32 am, "Przemek Kaszubski" <pkaszub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Don't have a copy of WST with me at the moment but two things come to mind:
>
> 1. Specify the span of words/characters to be copied/saved as text (in the
> program preferences/setup options)
> 2. Use built-in copy function rather than the OS copy - highlight a given
> portion of lines, then click on the applicable button and choose copy to
> clipboard
> 3. Paste the copied lines as normal into your word processor, then apply a
> fixed-width font to the block (e.g. Courier) - it might require shrinking,
> though.
>
> Hope this helps you along some way.
>
> Przemek
>