Saving a concordance

Saving a concordance

As a concordance

When you make a concordance it is already saved on disk by the time it is displayed. There is no need to save it again before exiting the program unless you have made changes to the wordlist (its contents and/or its order) and want to save those changes.

To save a concordance, choose Save Concordance As from the File Menu. You can save it under a new name or replace the existing concordance file.

You can have any number of different concordances made from the same source text and saved on disk. Bear in mind, though, that a full concordance is many times larger than the source text it derives from. Concordances can use a lot of disk space.

Concordance files have the extension .Concordance added to the name of the source text. You can use Find Files on the Tools Menu to find all the .Concordance files on your disk. These files are created by the program. You can delete them when the program is not running, but you should not edit them yourself.

Concordance works on the general principle that if you have chosen to display something on screen, it will be included when you do any of the things below. So if you want to omit an element, remove it from the display first.

As text

Choose Save as Text on the File menu to save the loaded concordance as a plain text (ASCII) file. The concordance will be saved using the viewing options which are currently chosen. For example, if word frequencies, word percentages, centred contexts, and references are visible, they will be included in the text file.

As another example, if you wanted to save only a list of headwords by itself, you would turn off the display of contexts (choose 'None' in the tabs down the right-hand edge of the program window), and then choose Save as Text. (For a quick way to get a list of headwords, see Copying a list of Headwords.)

As HTML

Choose Save as HTML on the File menu to write a single HTML file made from the loaded concordance. The concordance will be saved using the viewing options which are currently chosen. For example, if word frequencies, word percentages, centred contexts, and references are visible, they will be included in the HTML file. HTML Setup offers further options to control the way the HTML is generated and the appearance of the result. See also HTML Details

As a Web Concordance

See Building Web Concordances.

Note that in a Web Concordance, there has to be a reference on which to create an HTML link from the concordance frame to the original text. If you have created references of your own, they will be used for the text of the link. If you haven't, line numbers will be used, and so displayed in the Web Concordance, even if you have turned off the display of line numbers in the Context Views.

As a PDF file

PDF files are Adobe Portable Document Format files for use with Acrobat Reader. Concordance cannot produce PDF files directly but you can do so using another program. Instructions are here.

See also Saving and restoring settings