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Segments

What are and why use Segments?

Creating Segments is simple way to select structural parts of your witness texts or other content. The advantage to doing this is it allows you to deal with one piece of your content at a time in a manageable way while creating a useable structure for that content as you go. This has a number of imediate benefits. If you are bringing your content in from T-Pen and you have the first chapter transcribed for all your witnesses this will allow to start collation without needing your entire text transcribed. It also facilitates feeling with transposed or absent parts in the witnesses easily. Once you hav your Segments made you will collect them in Outlines which you can then collate. Atempting Collation of entire texts without creating manageable Outlines first is possible but it can take several days or more for CollateX to complete. We allow for this longer collation with an option to receive notification when the collation has been run.

Segmenting allows for much greater control on your Material. For example you could create segments for each chapter from from a multi-chapter witness or your commentaries for each chapter from a single Material that contains all the chapter commentaries. This means you can segment you materials ofr easier use with tradamus without having to prestructure you materials as mutliple documents. You can create this structure within Tradamus with out having to rework your content to be structurally consistant before bring it into Tradamus. it also allows you to segment the same Material in as many ways as you like without havng to alter or rework the original source. This makes collation much more flexable and makes experimentation and mutlipule apporaches to the content viable from the same set of orginal Material without having to rework that orginal Material.

Tradamus allows your Edition to be built of multiple, well-structured and well-annotated segments made from your Material. In order to support this we have built a tool Create Segments.The Create Segments button allows you to break your content into manageable pieces to allow you to have greater control in collating different elements of you witnesses as well as reordering them to facilitate this without the need to physically reorder the contents of the witness so your content remains true to its source while being usable especially when you need to reorder the content or need granularity in the collation of you witnesses. When you do this you are creating structural annotations of the Material.
After importing you Material into Tradamus you need to segment the Material. You do this under the Material Tab.

Create Segment

On the Material Tab select the material you wish to edit from the list presented. If you are already in a material you can change the Material you are working on via the change Material icon on the top right (book Icon).
In the witness you wish to section click on Create Segment under the Segment heading. this will open the Material in the Create Segment window.

You have a number of options

1. Select the desired page of text from the Page Selection pull down on the top left.
2. Show structural annotations on the left below the page selection pull down.
3. Select how you wish the text to break from the Break On pull down on the top right.
4. Change the witness you wish to section via the small tab on the right side of the witness name at the top of the page.
5. Select text directly to create Segments, Label, tag, and save.
6. View All Annotations

Creating Segments

1. On the Material Tab for the witness you wish to create a Segment, click on Create Segments button; this will open the text for the selected Material.
2. Select the desired page that you wish to start on from the page selection pull down on the top left.
3. Hide or show any structural annotations already in the witness via the Show Structure button.
4. Select the structural annotation to break on.

5. To select a part of our text to Section complete the following steps

   1. Choose the starting point of your Segment in by Highlight some text at the desireded starting point for the Segment. This can be any length but must be at least 1 character.
   2. In the Segment Label box click the Set Start button to make the highlighted text the start of your Segment.
   3. Select the end of the Segment by highlighting in the same manner as the 2. above and clicking the Set End button.
      1. If the end point is on a later page of the witness change the page selected to the desired page via the Page Selection pull down or by clicking the forward and back buttons either side of the Page Selection pull down.
   4. Create a label for the section in the Section Label text box.
   5. Add any tags desired to this Segment by entering the desired tag in the Create new tag text box
   6. Click Create Segment
   7. Click the Clear button to change the start or end point for the Segment.