Defaults: Permanent and Current

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Controller > save defaults

 

Settings can be altered by choosing Adjust Settings in the Oxford WordSmith Tools Controller.

Any setting menu item in any Tool gives you access to these:

 

Colours, Folders, Text, General, Tags, Stop Lists, Concord, KeyWords, WordList

These tabs allow you to choose settings which affect one or more of the Tools.

colours

customise the default colours

folders

set WordSmith so it "knows" which folders you usually use

text

character set, treatment of hyphens & numbers, default file extension

general

restore last file, printing

tags

tags to ignore, tag file, tag file autoloading, custom tagsets

stop lists

for Concord, KeyWords and Wordlist

matching

files to match up, or lemma files to mark lemmas in a word list, etc.

Concord

number of entries, sort system, collocation horizons

KeyWords

procedure, max. p value, database & associate minimum frequencies, reference corpus filename

WordList

word length & frequencies, type/token #, cluster settings

Index

making a wordlist index

Advanced

advanced settings

 

permanent settings and wordsmith.ini file

You can save your settings by checking the save box after adjusting settings. Or by editing the wordsmith.ini file, installed when you installed Oxford WordSmith Tools. This specifies all the settings which you regularly use for all the suite of programs, such as your text and results folders, screen colours, fonts, the default columns to be shown in a concordance, etc.

You can see \wsmith4\wordsmith.ini by choosing Settings | See Current.

 

show help file

In the general tab of Adjust Settings you will see a checkbox called "show help file". If checked, this will always show this help file every time WordSmith starts up. The point of this is for users who only use the software occasionally, e.g. in a network installation.

 

sayings

Using Notepad, you can edit wsmith4\sayings.txt, which holds sayings that appear in the main Controller window, if you don't like the sayings or want to add some more.

 

network and CD-ROM defaults

If you're running WordSmith straight from a CD-ROM, your defaults cannot be saved on it as it's read-only; Windows will find a suitable place for wordsmith.ini, usually the root folder of c:\.

The first time you use WordSmith, you will be prompted to Adjust Settings, choose appropriate Folders, Text Characteristics,  Tagdetails etc. and enable the Save checkbox, after which your settings will be saved for future use. You can change settings and save them as often as you like.

Similarly, on a network you will usually not be allowed to change defaults permanently, as this would affect other users. Your network administrator should have installed the program so that you have your own copy of wordsmith.ini, where it may be both read and altered. If Oxford WordSmith Tools finds a copy of wordsmith.ini in that folder it will be able to use your personal preferences.