<p><strong><em>Concordance (Plain Text)</em></strong> is a free, web-based tool designed to run in a browser window. It is easy to use, designed to <strong>locate </strong>and<strong> contextualize</strong> a user-specified word or pattern (in this case, a regular expression) within a document, either hosted at a web address or uploaded from the user's files.</p> <p>Users may set the <strong>context</strong> to words, lines, sentences or paragraphs or specify what length of that context to look within (ex: 5 words, 2 paragraphs. Searching a <strong>pattern</strong> rather than a word requires skill with <strong>regular expressions</strong> and is thus not accessible to all users.</p> <p>Other features include an option to generate and include <strong>synonyms</strong> for the user's chosen word (note that this option slow the tool's processing), and output formats including <strong>XML Tree</strong> and<strong> tab delimited</strong>. Most notably, the HTML output option includes a small <strong>distribution graph</strong> for the search word or pattern.</p> <p>This tool has only a few <strong>problems</strong>. When the tab delimited output is selected, the tool may not process some characters correctly; please see List Words (Plain Text) for examples. Concordance (HTML) is best used with prose texts, as poetic structure disrupts the tool's search.</p> <p><strong><em>Aside from these few limitations, Concordance (Plain Text) is an effective way see a given word or pattern in context.</em></strong> Versions are also available for HTML and XML documents.</p>