Lesson 7: Quoting

The process of quoting (identification and marking analytically relevant text-fragments) is usually directly related to coding those text-fragments. It is what ATLAS/ti was designed for and therefore offers a number of coding-functions to facilitate the creation of quotations. The next paragraph will discuss this in greater detail.

This integrated procedure is not mandatory so we are initially looking at how to create non-coded quotations.

The easiest way is to mark the particular text-fragment and then clicking the left button from the top in the vertical button bar left to the PD-window. As a result the quotation is registered in the quotation-list and furthermore displays the first and the last line-number along with the first words (the number before the actual line-number represents the number of the primary-text.) Also a serpent highlighting the quotation is visible in case the margin area is enabled.

Notes on mouse-marking techniques: Marking by double-clicking A double-click on a particular word marks it. A double-click on the marked word will highlight the entire sentence (from period to period -- there are known problems when using the period e.g. in abbreviations or omissions in a sentence. The same applies to colons, exclamations and question marks.) A double-click on the full sentence marks the full paragraph in effect. Please note that ATLAS/ti expects an additional line-break as a paragraph-separator. You also need to be aware that marking paragraphs is only possible if you have previously prepared the text-files (use the "search/replace" function of your word-processor). Another double-click then marks the entire file and the fifth double-click finally returns back to the first step.

Alternatively you can also select manually: position mouse at the beginning of the text-passage, keep left button pressed and drag to the end of the text-passage. (Additional options to quotation: go to the marked passage, open the context-menu and select the „Create Quotation" command;.....)