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multimedia markers

Text files can be tagged for reference to sound or video files which you can hear or see. For example, a text might contain something like this: blah blah blah ...<a href=http://gandalf.hit.uib.no/c/l/32401-1.mp3> blah blah etc. A concordance on blah blah could pick up the tag so you can hear the source mp3 file. See defining multimedia tags.

You will need to specify how each tag type starts and ends, and you should be consistent in usage. Restrict yourself to symbols which otherwise do not appear in your texts.

eight special markers

Eight kinds of marker may be marked as significant for word lists: those which represent starts and ends of headings, sections, sentences and paragraphs. Type these in the appropriate spaces when selecting Text Characteristics.

tags within 2 separators

These tags are often used to signal the part of speech of each word; they're also widely used in HTML, XML, SGML for "switches", e.g. <H1> to switch on Heading 1 style and </H1> to switch it off again. You should use the same opening and closing symbols, usually some kind of brackets, for all your tags (as the British National Corpus does using SGML or XML markup): <Noun>,<Verb>,<Pronoun>.

(A particular sub-variety of tags within 2 separators sometimes used is tags with underscores at the left and space at the right like this

To process these, you will need to declare the underscore a valid character, or else (recommended) convert your corpus to a format like.