layout-class: Layout object, defining the layout of print transcripts

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Layout object, defining the layout of print transcripts

Description

You can create an new layout object with methods::new("layout"). This will give you a new layout object with the default settings uses by act. If you want to modify the layout of the print transcripts, create a new layout object with mylayout <- methods::new("layout"), modify the values in the @slots and pass it as argument l to the respective functions.

Slots

name

Character string; Name of the layout.

filter.tier.includeRegEx

Character string; as regular expression, tiers matching the expression will be included in the print transcript.

filter.tier.excludeRegEx

Character string; as regular expression, tiers matching the expression will be excluded from the print transcript.

transcript.width

Integer; width of transcript, -1 for no line wrapping.

speaker.width

Integer; width of speaker abbreviation, -1 for full name without shortening.

speaker.ending

Character string; string that is added at the end of the speaker name.

spacesbefore

Integer; number of spaces inserted before line number.

additionalline1.insert

Logical; if TRUE an additional dummy line will be inserted after each annotation line, the text is defined in .additionalline1.text.

additionalline1.text

Character string; Content of additional dummy line 1.

additionalline1.indent

Logical; if TRUE the content of the dummy line 1 will be indented to begin where the content of the annotations start.

additionalline2.insert

Logical; if TRUE an additional dummy line will be inserted after each annotation line, the text is defined in .additionalline2.text.

additionalline2.text

Character string; Content of additional dummy line 2.

additionalline2.indent

Logical; if TRUE the content of the dummy line 2 will be indented to begin where the content of the annotations start.

brackets.tryToAlign

Logical; if TRUE act will try to align brackets [] for parallel speaking (Attention: experimental function; results may not satisfy).

pauseTierRegEx

Character string; regular expression to identify pause tier for auto formatting pauses.

header.insert

Logical; if TRUE a transcript header is inserted.

header.heading.fromColumnName

Character string; is only used when transcripts are made based on a search results; defines from which column of a search results table the heading is taken (if object@.header.insert==TRUE)

header.firstInfo.fromColumnName

Character string; is only used when transcripts are made based on a search results; defines from which column of a search results table the first info is taken (if object@.header.insert==TRUE)

arrow.insert

Logical; is only used when transcripts are made based on a search results; if TRUE an arrow will be inserted, highlighting the transcript line containing the search hit.

arrow.shape

Character string; shape of the arrow.

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