Probably the first thing to do if your source text is tagged, is to let WordSmith know. To do this, in the main Controller, choose Settings | Adjust Settings
then Tags and Mark-up.
If you're using the British National Corpus, choose it within Custom settings as shown above. Then choose your Entity file if you want to avoid seeing eacute; instead of é and similar things, and press Load:
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So far, we have told the Controller that it is to ignore all tags beginning and ending with angle brackets (< >), to translate a few entity references to symbols like % and ", and to cut out the header of each text (up to </teiHeader>). That'll do for a start.
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