Using Plotmish: Removing Vowels

Removing a Vowel

It is often quite useful to remove a vowel entirely from the screen. This can be done for several reasons. If no remeasurements for a given vowel is acceptable it can be removed as a 'Bad' vowel. Also, if a vowel does not require remeasurement or has been remeasured and now is ok, it can also be removed so as to reduce clutter on the vowel plot.

To remove a vowel

First, make sure you set the correct reason for removal by clicking the button 'Rmv. OK'/'Rmv. Bad' button. (As you might expect you want it to say OK if you removing good vowels and Bad if you're removing bad vowels).

Then, click on a vowel while holding down the control button.

To remove a vowel and leave a note

This allows you to enter a reason why the vowel is being removed. Hold down control+shiftand a text entry box will appear.

To remove a group of vowels at once

Hold down the A key and click and drag over the region you want to remove. Release your mouse click before releasing control+A to clear the region. control+shift+A allows an annotator to leave a note for an entire region.