An atom plugin for creating the %mor tier of CHAT transcriptions.

After installing Atom, look for its .atom folder. In Windows, it is probably in C:/Users/<your_user_name>/.atom; in Linux, it is probably in /home/<your_user_name>/.atom.

Download the entire code into a folder called inuktag inside .atom/packages/. The code needs the dictionary containing the morphemes and the corresponding glosses (they are not included here to prevent copyright issues). You should put it in inuktag/lib/data/dict.txt.

TODO: explain that interact.js is necessary for showing the panel with the dictionary, and how to install it. Without it, it was not possible to resize that pane.

Now just open Atom and the plugin should be accessible.

The file keymaps/inuktag.json contains the keyboard shortcuts for the functionalities provided by the plugin. By default, they are:

• ctrl+shift+space: Tags current morpheme
• ctrl+i: Copies the current line into a %mor tier
• ctrl+shift+e: Shows dictionary

(actually, these functions are not doing a lot so far. Hopefully they will soon)

Atom by defaults uses "soft tabs", by which it shows the characters as if they were tabs, but actually inserts space characters in the files. This may break the ctrl+i functionality (because CHAT files really need to have a tab character after the beginning of the line, i.e., %mor: part).

To prevent this from happening, it may be a good idea to deactivate the soft tabs in the Settings, in Atom. You may open the Settings going to Edit > Preferences. Then click in Editor (in the left panel) and search for the option named Tab Type. Then choose hard to deactivate soft tabs.