You have a listing showing all the concordance lines in a window. You can scroll up and down and left or right with the mouse or with the cursor keys.
If you have a lot of lines you should certainly sort them. A concordance is read vertically, not horizontally. You are looking for repeated patterns, such as the presence of lots of the same sorts of words to the right or left of your search-word. Click the bar at the top to start a sort.
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These show the details for each entry: the entry number, the concordance line, set, tag, word-position (e.g. 1st word in the text is 1), paragraph and sentence position, source text file name, and how far into the file it comes (as a percentage). See below for an explanation of the purple blobs. The statistics are computed automatically based on the language settings.
This is where you can classify the entries yourself, using any letter, into user-defined categories. Supposing you want to sort out verb uses from noun uses, you can press V or N. To type more (eg. "Noun"), double-click the entry in the set column and type what you want. If you have more than one search-word, you will find the Set column filled with the search-word for each entry. To clear the current entry, you can type the number 0. To clear the whole Set column, choose Edit | Clear Set column. |
This column shows the tag context.
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More context?
Stretching the display to see more
You can pull the concordance display to widen its column. Just place the mouse cursor on the bar between one column and another; when the cursor changes shape you can pull the whole column. |
Stretch one line to see more context
The same applies to each individual row: place the mouse cursor between one row and another in the grey numbered area, and drag. Or press (F8) to "grow" all the rows, or (Ctrl+F8) to shrink them. Or Alt+F8 to grow the current line only (Ctrl+Alt+F8 to shrink it).
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Viewing the original text-file
(if it is still on the disk where it was when the concordance was originally created) Double-click the concordance column, and the source text window will load the file and highlight the search word. Or double-click the filename column, it will open in Notepad for editing. |
Other things you may wonder about
The status bar panels show •the number of entries •whether we're in "Typing" or "Set" mode; •the current selected cell of the grid. |
See also:
Re-sorting your concordance lines
Follow-up searches
Blanking out the search-word
Padding the search-word with spaces (use the search-word padding menu item to put a space on each side of the search-word)
Collocation (words in the neighbourhood of the search-word)
Plot (plots where the search-word came in the texts)
Clusters (groups of words in your concordance)