The Linguist's Shoebox

Shoebox provides data properties that determine whether fields

• can contain multiple words;
• can be empty;
• should have lines breaks automatically inserted to fit the margin (i.e., wrapping and reshaping).

Data properties are contained in database types as part of the marker properties. To modify them, right-click the appropriate data field marker (in the marker pane) and click the Data Properties tab. When Shoebox finds an inconsistency, it selects the failed data item in the active window and displays the Data Property Consistency Check dialog box. If the current field contains multiple words, the options for data items affect jumping and consistency checking of range sets and data links.

Option	Destination of jumping	Consistency checking
multiple one-word items	the current word	each word (as a separate item)
a single item	entire field contents	entire field contents (as a single element)