Add a boundary copying command

[leeannvidal]

Add functionality to allow to copy the boundaries of a tier to others that already have boundaries within them

[giphahne]

"copy the boundaries"
sounds like:
"copy an entire tier, but have the newly created tier have all Marks be empty"
Is that correct?

[leeannvidal]

I guess it would be more like "copy a tier and merge into another but have all the Marks be empty".

[giphahne]

@leeannvidal: ah, ok, so would that be (functionally) equivalent to "merge-and-mark-tiers" and then take the newly created tier and "empty" all the Marks?

Or, in other words, you need something to do the "merge" but without doing the "mark"

[leeannvidal]

@giphahne well yes and no. At the moment, one the tiers i would want it to merge into (phonological) is already kind of coded for so i would want to keep that... BUT ACTUALLY... I am thinking of the one I am working on, that would actually work for all the others because I would know ahead to just do all these commands before working on putting text into the boundaries. SO YES, that perfect, I think!

[giphahne]

If what you're going for is just to mash non-overlapping tiers together, it's just as easy to just keep whatever Marks each Tier has. It's more a logistical/process/utility discussion than a technical one.