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Preferences

The Preferences dialog on the Tools menu lets you alter various user preferences.

There are three tabbed pages, Making Concordances, User Interface, and File Locations.

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The Making Concordances page has these options:
  • Load Alphabet with each concordance file

    You can choose whether the Alphabet stored with each concordance is re-loaded whenever the concordance itself is re-loaded.  Re-loading an Alphabet is useful if you want to continue work on a previously-made concordance, but it will overwrite whatever Alphabet is currently in force, and this can cause unexpected results. Remember that the Pick and Stop List Managers may be using the user-defined Alphabet too, if you have so chosen.
  • Choose leader character (between word and number of occurrences)

    You can choose the character that is used for padding between a headword and its number of occurrences when you save or print a concordance, like this:

       THE........... 10

    By default this character is the full stop ('period' in American). You can change it to a space to make it invisible, or to any other character.
  • Choose index separator

    You can choose the character that is used to separate entries in an index when exported or printed.  By default this is the semi-colon.
  • Convert HTML entities found in input  and  Convert to HTML entities during output - these have their own help topic.

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    The User interface page has these options:

  • Hot Tracking in Wordlist

    When this option is on, leaving the cursor hovering over a word in the Wordlist will cause it to become the selected item after a short delay, even though you do not click on it.  When this option is off, the selected item in the wordlist will change only when you click on it (or use the up or down arrow keys).

    This option was permanently on in Version 2. It is now off by default.
  • Show Progress Messages and Warnings

    Previous versions of Concordance showed all progress messages while a concordance was being made.  Instead of 'All' you can now choose 'High Priority only' to suppress the Progress dialog unless significant warnings occur.

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    The File Locations page has these options:

    You can choose where files will be placed when concordances are made from Clipboard text. They can be created in a folder of your choice, or else in the current folder. (The current folder is set by Windows and depends on what you were doing before you started Concordance, though you can re-set it here.)

    This applies only to Concordances made from the Clipboard, since Concordance has to make up names for such texts and there is no 'natural' place to put them.  Concordances made from files on your disk are always placed in the same folder as the first active file.  See     Make Concordance from Files and Make Concordances from Clipboard for more detail.