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說“肘後”

東晉葛洪有《肘後備急方》，取其卷帙短小，可以繫於肘後，隨時查閱的意思。兩漢魏晉時候的人往往會將隨身攜帶的飾物、印章等繫於肘後。文獻中雖然例子不多，但仔細鉤稽，仍可以推測其彷彿。《世說新語·尤悔第三十三》第六條：

Pseudo forced alignment using a Praat script

It is very common for phoneticians to ask speakers to read aloud word lists, especially in the field. However, to find a word in a long sound file is very painful and a better solution is to split the long sound file into short files with meaningful file names. I wrote a Praat script for that purpose and to save some time, I also use the script to fill in the transcriptions to the TextGrid file. This post is a documentation of the script, which can be found in my github.

How I make a linguistic handout

Making a linguistic handout needs some tricks. Using MS word is not ideal because the output is not that beautiful and linguistic contents are not . In this post I explain how I make a linguistic handout with markdown and of course LaTeX. The workflow I usually write documents using markdown and convert it to pdf using pandoc, as explained in my previous posts. I have a same head/template for all handouts, so that the style remains the same for a course. I use different LaTeX packages to format various linguistic contents.