Concordar : concordance software

Concordar allows you to build a concordance of any text you choose through a simple graphical interface.

Click on any word in the text to display a concordance for that word.
Click on any line of the concordance to jump to the corresponding location in the text.

Concordar is cross-platform, written in Python using the Qt graphical toolkit, and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Download

Windows

Download Concordar for Windows

Installing instructions

Click on the above link and choose to save the installer to your disk when prompted.
Go to the folder where you downloaded the installer, and double click Install Concordar to start the installation. Concordar will be installed in Program Files > Concordar
Double click the Desktop shotcut or use the start menu to launch Concordar.

Uninstalling

To uninstall, choose Start > Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall.

Linux

Make sure you have the PyQt4 Python bindings installed through your package manager. Download and unpack the source tarball from github, then run concordar/main.py.

Mac

No Mac package is available at present. If you desire to run Concordar, you should install PyQt4 from Riverbank Computing, then use the source tarball as on Linux.

Usage

Concordar is really easy to use. Just click on any word in the text to display a complete concordance. Here’s the long story:

Use your favourite program to save the text you need to study as a plain text file. If your text contains non-English characters (this include accents), you must save the file with the UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 is the most common encoding which allows interoperability between texts written in different alphabets. If the file is saved with another encoding, Concordar will work, but you might see strange wiggles instead of letters.
In Concordar, select File > Open to import your text.
Click on any word in the lef pane to display a concordance for that word.
Click any line in the concordance to move to the corresponding occurence within the text.

Known bugs

The program gives the impression to freeze when building a concordance for a word with a large number of occurences (>10 000). The program should finish its job given enough time.
A punctuation sign next to a word will sometimes be highlighted instead of the word.

Contribute

The source for Concordar in hosted on github