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What the program does

Using Concordance you can analyse text files in very flexible ways.
  • You can make wordlists - lists of all the different words which occur in a text. The wordlists can be arranged (sorted) in many different ways. Each word can be optionally accompanied by a count of the number of times it occurs, and by a note of the percentage of all words which it represents.
  • You can make concordances - wordlists where each occurrence of each word is shown in its context - that is, an extract from the original text which includes the word.  Contexts can be selected and arranged in many different ways.
  • The program can make complete concordances to all the words in your text. It is not limited to doing a few words at a time, though it can do so if you wish.  It can handle large texts and has very few intrinsic limits on their size. In practice, the size of input texts is limited only by the amount of available disk space on your computer and, to some extent, by the amount of free memory (RAM).
  • Complete concordances are made using Make Full Concordance on the File Menu.  Concordances to selected words of your choice are made using Make Fast Concordance on the File Menu.
  • While viewing the results, you can select the words you want to keep in your wordlist or concordance using powerful selection criteria.
  • You can browse the wordlist, the concordance, and your original text at will, and all three are interlinked so that you can jump immediately to any item of interest.
  • You can print the concordance, having selected which elements you want to appear in the printed version.  There is good control over page layout and fonts, and there is a powerful print preview.
  • You can save the concordance as a plain text file suitable for further editing, or as an HTML file for use with a web browser.  
  • Finally, you can turn your concordance into a Web Concordance - a series of files which are ready for deployment on the web and represent a wordlist, a concordance, and a source text hypertextually linked.


    See also:
    About Concordance
    What is a Concordance? 
    What is a Web Concordance?
    Tutorial files