CLAN Check - Troubleshooting
Common errors you might get when you run CLAN check (Esc+L).
Complaint: Utterance delimiter expected
Solution: Place a period before the timestamp bullet.
Complaint: Utterance delimiter must be at the end of the utterance
Solution: Remove excess periods. This usually happens on a CHN tier. It should have one period on the last line of the tier. You can remove any periods before the last tier.
Complaint: Duplicate code tiers per one main tier are NOT allowed
Solution: change one %com to %xcom
Complaint: Use TAB character instead of space character after Tier name
On every line, between the colon and the beginning of the content should be a TAB. If it's just a space, CLAN will highlight it and you can erase the space and add a TAB. Weird formatting means they'll look the same to the naked eye.
Complaint: Upper case letters are not allowed inside a word.
Same goes for punctuation within words. CLAN won't allow periods or apostrophes within annotated words.
Complaint: Timestamp Issues
If you get timestamp errors in CLAN, flag the issue to lab staff either through an Asana task, an email, or in person.
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