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Alembic Workbench User's Guide

    4. Starting and Quitting the Alembic Workbench

To start the Alembic Workbench process, either type:

alembic workbench or awb

Table 1: Command-line Arguments
Flag Specification Description
-h Displays help message and exits
-help or -awbhelp Displays help message and exits
-prefs filename Customizes the tagging environment, i.e., the tagset and colors represented in the tag menu, according to the specified preferences file.
-debug [1 | 0] Turn on/off predefined debugging output.
-coref [1 | 0] Turn special coreference tagging utilities on (1) or off (0). Defaults to off (0).
-input [1 | 0] Preload this file into the Workbench for tagging.
-overlap [1 | 0] Enable (1) or disable (0) detection and disallowance of annotations that create crossing brackets in the SGML representation. Defaults to on (1).
jp [1 | 0] Invoke the version of Alembic that supports viewing Japanese, Chinese and other 'JIS' character sets (by using a version of Tcl/Tk with special JIS patches). Defaults to 0. (jp = 0 is the 'Latin-1 Viewer'; jp = 1 is the 'JIS Viewer'.
language name Pre-specify the language of the document being annotated. In some cases this could influence the font used to display the text. Defaults to English when Latin-1 viewer is being used, and Japanese when JIS viewer is being used.
-ignoretags tagset Ignores the tag file described by the tagsetid. The tagsetid identifies the content of the tag file, e.g., LEX is the tagsetid for part-of-speech tags. When a tagsetid is ignored, the GUI neglects the corresponding tag file, making the tags both inaccessible and invisible to the user from within the GUI.
-fontsize tiny
small
medium
big
Displays text consistently throughout the GUI with the specified font size.
-windowname "name" Sets the name of the window name in the window manager. Excluding this argument, it defaults to: Alembic Workbench.


Quitting

To quit the Alembic Workbench process:

Under the File menu, choose Quit.


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