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Previous Changes

Recent changes

Version 2.5.1 - 9 January 2006

• Export to Document:

  • Added OpenDocument type (.odt) to export options. This is the format used by OpenOffice.org 2.0.

  • Fixed: The OpenOffice.org 1.0 text documents (.sxw) that Lexique Pro generated could not be read by OpenOffice.org 2.0.

  • Fixed: OpenOffice.org exports did not handle field-level and user-defined formatting styles.

  • Fixed: Export wizard froze when trying to export fields with angle brackets.

  • Fixed: Various problems with RTF export.

• Export to Web:

  • Fixed: Cross-references were not linking to the correct entries if the dictionary contained sub-entries.

• Configuration:

  • Consistent Changes page appears on first-time configuration.

  • Fixed: HTML tags in category names and descriptions were not read properly from the configuration file.

• Editor:

  • Fixed: Fonts were sometimes not set properly for editor lines, leaving a mixture of two fonts on the same line.

Version 2.5 - 24 December 2005

• Editor:

  • Multi-level undo ('Undo last change') in addition to 'Undo all'.

  • In addition to CTRL+E, double-clicking on an item in left-hand window toggles between view and edit modes.

  • Keyboard layout switching added. (See 'Default Fonts' page of configuration to set keyboard for each language.)

  • Fixed: Editing was confused when records were omitted. Now when edit mode is on, all records are displayed. (Omitted records are displayed in red). When edit mode is off the omitted records are hidden.

  • Fixed: If during an edit you inadvertently deleted an end-of-field paragraph character, all subsequent field markers shifted up one relative to their field contents, corrupting the record.

  • Fixed: Fonts were sometimes not set properly for editor lines.

  • Fixed: Do not allow user to delete record marker (i.e. \lx).

  • Fixed: Insert/edit marker dialog needed French and Spanish translations.

• Viewing:

  • Click on an image: larger version appears in a pop-up window.

  • When displaying members of a category, status bar indicates how many words (e.g. "Category: 5 words").

  • Shortcut to Pronounce button (F4).

  • Fixed: Links to sub-entries did not work.

• Configuration:

  • New-look dialog to avoid four rows of tabs.

  • Removed some pages from the first-time configuration wizard.

  • Fixed: Upper-ASCII characters in user-defined field labels were not saved properly.

• Categories:

  • Added optional Description text to be displayed below the title when viewing a category.

    • To set the description, go to the 'Categories' page of the configuration, go to the 'Category Names' tab, select a category and then click the 'Change...' button.

    • The category description font can be changed in the 'Styles' page of the configuration on the 'General Fields' tab.

• Formatting:

  • User defined styles:

    • New tab in the Configure Lexicon dialog.

    • Allows configuration of MDF character styles fv, fe, fn and fr.

    • Allows addition of extra user-defined font styles, including HTML-style.

  • Homonym number subscripts are displayed for cross references and lexical function links.

  • Options for displaying Example Gloss styles with quote marks.

  • Fixed: Don't try to add missing full stops at the end of right-to-left text.

  • Fixed: If lexicon language is an right-to-left language, need to right-justify the main tree-view.

  • Fixed: 'i:' was wrongly interpreted as an italics formatting code.

  • Fixed: Gray colour was not recognised.

• Create New Lexicon wizard:

  • New wizard (File > Create New Lexicon...) allowing user to create a blank lexicon database.

• Export:

  • Fixed: When exporting alphabetical entries to a document, do not export section headings if there are no words for that letter.

  • Fixed: If you used MDF formatting styles with curly brackets (e.g. fi:{in italics}), the curly brackets would still be visible in an export to an RTF document.

• Other bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Sort from end of words did not sort words properly with homonym numbers.

  • Fixed: In 'About' and 'More Info' pages, links to .doc and .pdf worked, but .xls and other file types were not recognised.

  • Fixed: Edit features should not be available for Windows 95/98/Me.

  • Fixed: Installation - if no database was chosen, desktop and Start Menu items were not created.

  • Fixed: Status bar "1 words" changed to "1 word".

Version 2.4.6 - 29 July 2005

• New Feature: Input buttons for special characters:

   

   

  • Gives your users an easy way of typing special characters in Lexique Pro without needing to install/learn a program like Keyman.

  • Buttons are displayed under the lookup/search boxes on the left of the screen.

  • See the new 'Input Buttons' page in the Configure Lexicon wizard to configure input buttons for each language.

   

• Sound: display a sound icon to the right of main entry names and sub-entry names if a sound clip exists. Clicking on it will have the same effect as clicking the Pronounce button.

   

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Warning in distribution compilation re. non-ASCII characters in language file.

  • Fixed: Editor menu items were still enabled on home, about language and info pages.

Version 2.4.5 - 19 July 2005

• Keyboard shortcut CTRL+E now toggles between View and Edit tabs (like in Paratext).

• Formatting enhancements:

  • Can turn on/off display of example references and phonetic forms.

  • Full stops are added to the end of encyclopaedic fields if punctuation is not found.

  • If variant comments are already enclosed in parenthesis (), Lexique Pro will not add extra quotes on export.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Bookmark hyperlinks (e.g. to jump to another position on the same page) did not work in Info and About Language pages.

Version 2.4.4 - 4 July 2005

• Dictionary Development Program (DDP):

  • Support for version 3 added (Now, both xxdict2.db - for version 2 - and xxdict3.db - for version 3 - are distributed).

  • On the Category page of the Configure Lexicon wizard, if you are using DDP you need to specify which version you are using - i.e. 2 or 3.

  • For more info on DDP, see the web site: http://www.sil.org/computing/ddp/

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Part of speech is repeated in output in some cases.

Version 2.4.3 - 15 June 2005

• Formatting:

  • Allow HTML formatting codes <i>, <b> and <u> to be used in lexical entries for formatting, e.g.:
         \de Here is a definition in <b>bold</b> and <i>italics</i>.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Access violation when trying to add a new record where there are user-defined gloss languages. Marker language info was being written incorrectly in the configuration file.

  • Fixed: Error when trying to add a category if there were previously no categories.

  • Fixed: Use Unicode for bullet character (•).

  • Fixed: Failed to open lexicon if there was a blank line in the sort order.

  • Fixed: Don't display an isolated ':' if there is no lexical function caption.

Version 2.4.2 - 10 May 2005

• Bug fix:

  • Fixed: Lexical function hyperlinks were not working in Web export.

Version 2.4.1 - 3 May 2005

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Export to RTF document failed if there were curly brackets { } in a field.

  • Fixed: CTRL+C, +X, + V should be enabled for cut, copy, paste in search, lexicon and index lookup fields.

  • Fixed: Cursor position was not remembered when saving or undoing changes.

  • Fixed: If you turned off edit mode after making some changes you had not saved, the changes were not reflected immediately in the display and you were not able to re-enter edit mode.

Version 2.4 - 21 April 2005

• Basic editing features:

  • New 'Edit' button on toolbar to enter edit mode.

  • Allows you to edit, add, copy, and delete records.

  • Additional security setting - default is not to allow editing.

  • Uses Toolbox .typ/.lng info for fonts/template if available.

• Configuration enhancements:

  • Tabbed interface: Can now access configuration pages via tabbed interface, rather than going through all the wizard pages every time. The wizard is still available if preferred. (See 'Tools' menu.)

  • First-time Configuration:

    • If the Toolbox user settings folder (with .typ and .lng files) cannot be found, Lexique Pro asks you to specify where to find it.

    • If the Toolbox language settings specify that the file is Unicode, Lexique Pro will default to 'Unicode file' rather than 'Plain text file'.

    • Fixed: Unicode characters in language encoding files (.lng) are now handled correctly.

    • Fixed: If you have more than one gloss language, the fonts should default to different colours.

  • Can turn off alphabet display on home page (see 'Home Page' page of Configuration).

  • XML file is now written as UTF-8 - makes it easier to see Unicode characters.

  • Allow Unicode characters in Category display names.

  • Added configuration of Category fonts.

  • Hyperlinks: can specify whether or not to have a hyperlink for each lexical function or paradigm (see Label Translation page of Configure Lexicon wizard)

• Display/layout enhancements:

  • Lexique Pro now displays the fields in roughly the same order as you have specified them, rather than reorganising and regrouping the fields as in previous versions. Here are some advantages:

    • You can place the paradigms and variants at the top of the entry, or at the bottom, or in the middle - it's for you to decide.

    • You can place encyclopaedic info fields (e.g. \ee) giving explanations between examples, pictures, etc.

  • Homonym numbers are displayed in titles, and are included on index tree on left e.g. (1), (2), (3).

  • Multiple line lexical function and cross reference glosses are vertically aligned to top rather than centred.

  • Left margins made more consistent; reduced spacing between some fields.

  • Formatting codes processed in cross reference gloss and variant comment fields

  • Multiple-entry views (i.e. when you click on 'a', or do a search, or look at categories):

    • Can specify fonts (in the Fonts page of the Configure Lexicon wizard).

    • Can specify which fields to display in multi-entry views (in the More Formatting page of the Configure Lexicon wizard).

  • Fixed: if paradigms are not hyper-linked, Lexique Pro will not attempt to remove trailing digits as if they were homonym numbers.

• Export:

  • Can specify which lexical functions and paradigms to export.

  • Added phonetic form.

  • Allow exclusion of example reference field when exporting examples.

  • Fixed: In RTF exports, the font name output was not correct in the French version of Windows.

  • Fixed: In export to document, RTL examples were not output correctly.

• Indexes:

  • Multiple entry display when clicking on top level index items rather than displaying the first word - if, for example, there are two words (e.g. 'kuki' and 'bisiki') for the English word 'biscuit', both of these will be displayed when you click on 'biscuit' rather than displaying the first of the two.

• Properties dialog:

  • See File > Properties - to show database file location, size, etc. This is available when you have edit or configuration access.

• Consistent Changes:

  • New page on Configure Lexicon wizard to allow you to apply a CC table (.cct) to your records.

  • The changes are made only in memory; your database file is not affected.

  • New 'CC' tab available when editing to see results of applying CC table.

  • Some users had been using a cc table to manipulate their data before loading it into Lexique Pro. The problem with this is that it meant they could not use Lexique Pro for editing their original data. By applying the cc table within Lexique Pro, you can still edit your original data.

  • When you encrypt and distribute your data, the post cc'd data will be distributed to save time loading the lexicon.

• Categories:

  • Fixed: DDP categories were not recognised if an \sd field was not present with its corresponding \is field. Now, \is fields on their own are recognised.

• Other bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Failed to create distribution setup program if the language name contained non A-Z characters.

  • Fixed: Characters in the range 160-255 were not displaying properly in the main display and in web/document exports if the user's computer was set to default to a Central European character set.

  • Fixed: Crash occurred when building indexes after using Omit Records feature.

  • Fixed: Access violation when trying to display empty paradigm field.

  • Fixed: Unnecessary separator lines were sometimes visible in the File menu.

  • Fixed: Most recently used lexicon list on File menu - now checks to see if files still exist before adding them to the menu.

  • Fixed: If only one 'Usage' field, it is displayed on the same line as the label 'Usage:'.

  • Fixed: Cross-ref links to sub-entries now go to sub-entry rather than main entry (e.g. for '\cf custard : custard pie').

• Latest version of TECkit included in the distribution (TECkit 2.1.2 - 21 July 2004).

• New version of Inno Setup for generating the distributable .exe.

Versions 2.3 - 2.3.7

• Test versions

Version 2.2 - 1 November 2004

• Export to Document:

  • Added export to Rich Text Format.

  • Paragraph settings page on wizard - to allow setting of indents, alignment and line spacing.

• Optimisation: sorting and loading dictionary.

• Configuration Wizard:

  • Can specify home page images per lexicon (see 'Home Page' page).

  • Can specify fonts for part of speech, labels, borrowed words and etymology.

• Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: setting Indic font style failed in Word.

  • Fixed: if upper and lower case letters are the same, should only use one for the section headings.

  • Fixed: titles should default to 'Arial' for classified export.

  • Fixed: example references were exported in wrong font.

  • Fixed: various problems with distributing multiple lexicons with images/sound files.

  • Fixed: if two Lexique Pro's open at same time, were unable to play .wav files in both.

Version 2.1.1 - 19 October 2004

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: When reversal fields were specified they did not completely override gloss fields, so both gloss and reversal fields appeared in the index. (This bug was introduced between versions 2.0.1 and 2.1. If you use reversal fields it's advisable to delete the .idx index files created using version 2.1 to force 2.1.1 to recreate them.)

  • Fixed: In web export, if using citation forms, hyperlinks between fields would not point to the right page if the citation form started with a different letter than the lexeme.

  • Fixed: Search on whole words often failed for words containing special characters.

  • Fixed: Screen needed refreshing after right-click search.

• Enhancements:

  • Etymology field added (\et, \eg).

  • In the Distribute lexicon wizard, permissions for Export to Document or Web are set to 'off' by default.

Version 2.1 - 15 October 2004

• Sort from End of Words Tab:

  • A new index tab on the left of the screen, where lexical entries are sorted from the ends of words, hence grouping words with the same suffixes together.

  • Can be turned on/off on the Sort Order page of the Configure Lexicon wizard.

• Index files are included in the distribution:

  • This means that Lexique Pro will not waste time sorting and creating indexes the first time the user installs your lexicon.

• User-defined Paradigm fields (see second tab on the Markers page of Configure Lexicon wizard):

  • Allows you to define your own paradigm fields, e.g. \dim (Diminutive), \defpl (Definite Plural), \acc (Accusative).

• Formatting & Styles (see Styles page of Configure Lexicon wizard):

  • Can specify font colour, bold/italics for gloss/definition fields.

  • Can specify font for sub-entries.

  • Can specify line height for fonts in the index tabs. (This is useful since some Unicode fonts appear with too much vertical spacing.)

• Sound (in context):

  • Sound files can now be associated with paradigms and lexical functions as well as examples.

  • Put a 'Sound (in context)' marker (defaults to \sfx) after the corresponding field in your database.

• Alphabet Buttons configuration (via button on the Alphabet page of Configure Lexicon wizard):

  • Can specify whether or not to display the button bar on the right of the screen.

  • Can specify button size (width and height), and font.

  • Can specify which letters to display if not the same as for the alphabet on the home page.

• Fixed: if the definition marker appeared before gloss or reversal markers, only the last gloss/reversal marker was included.

Version 2.0.1 - 24 August 2004

• Sorting: can now choose whether to select words alphabetically by lexical entry name or lexical citation form - see Alphabet page of the Configure Lexicon wizard.

• Sound:

  • Audio clips can be associated with examples (e.g. \xv .... \xe .... \xsf c:\sounds\example1.mp3).

  • MP3 files are now accepted as well as WAV format.

• Field Formatting:

  • Encyclopedic Info field (\ev) displayed for vernacular language.

  • Additional styles added for Encyclopedic Info - see Styles page of Configure Lexicon wizard.

  • Can choose whether example reference (\rf) refers to example before (i.e. \xv, \xv, \rf) or after (i.e. \rf, \xv, \xe) - see More Styles page of the Configure Lexicon wizard.

  • Can turn off Google hyperlink for Scientific name - see More Styles page of the Configure Lexicon wizard.

  • If multiple example glosses are given they are appended (i.e. \xv ... \xe .... \xe ....).

• Language name can be displayed as caption of Lexicon tab rather than 'Lexicon'.

• Variant forms are displayed at the top of an entry rather than embedded in the definition.

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: repeated text was appearing after sub-entries in many-entry view.

  • Fixed: hyperlinks in web export were wrong for words beginning with a two-character character, e.g. 'ng'.

  • Fixed: if many sound files were found, the last of these was chosen rather than the first.

  • Fixed: scaling problems on widescreen displays.

Version 2.0 - 16 August 2004

• Release version - can be used to distribute your dictionary to others.

• Search Tab:

  • Now accepts wildcards and regular expressions, e.g.

    • *muso     - matches all words ending with 'muso'.

    • t?ma       - matches 'toma', 'tima', 'tema', etc.

    • b[ai]t*  - matches words beginning with 'bat' or 'bit'.

    • m(im|an)*t  - matches words beginning with 'mim' or 'man' and ending with 't'.

  • Matching entries are displayed in summary form in the main display. This means that you can print your search results.

  • Matches in lexical entry names are displayed in a separate list from matches in gloss/definitions.

• Export to Document:

  • can now export to native OpenOffice.org Text Document format (.sxw), as well as Microsoft Word (.doc).

• Configuration:

  • First time configuration - if Lexique Pro finds related Shoebox/Toolbox .typ and .lng files, these are used to set some of the default font and language settings. (Note: If these files are not found, it is not a problem. If found, they are referenced only during the first configuration of a lexicon.)

  • Alphabet page - for choosing which letters to display on front screen and on the vertical button bar on the right.

  • Styles page - moved from Fonts page, to make it clearer.

• Printing: title in header for alphabetic and category screens.

• When adding an additional gloss language, select 'build index' by default.

• Status bar hints when mouse over videos and documents.

• More movie types recognised (e.g. .mpeg, .mpg, .qt, .3gp, .mp4).

• New splash screen and about box with revised copyright information.

• Fixed: problem with saving category names in Spanish.

• Fixed: repeated text in export of entries with multiple definitions.

Version 1.9.5 (Beta) - 28 July 2004

• Can now include video/movie files, Word and PDF documents as links in a lexical entry. See FAQ for more details as to how to do this.

• Bambara lexicon and Mali info pages removed to decrease size of download.

• Restriction removed: Parent category nodes can now have semantic domain codes associated with them.

• Fixed: Win 9x sorting problem for entries beginning with Unicode characters.

• Fixed: Formatting problems with index export to Word for right-to-left languages.

• Fixed: Could not enter category name in Spanish.

Version 1.9.4 (Beta) - 21 July 2004

• Fixed: Sound files were not found if specified with an absolute path.

• Fixed: Headers for export to Word were displaying errors.

• Fixed: Variants, Encyclopaedic info, and Usage fields were missing from alphabetic display and exports.

• Fixed: Lexical function and paradigm labels were displaying '???' for Unicode characters.

Version 1.9.3 (Beta) - 20 July 2004

• Fixed: When distributing a Unicode db as encrypted, failed to recognise it as Unicode when decrypting.

• Web page export:

  • Improved to include both framed/frameless versions.

  • Framed version includes indexes and categories. (Tested on IE6 and Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2.)

  • Fixed: Selected fields to export are saved for next time the wizard is run.

• Links:

  • When specifying a number for homonym, can optionally leave a space, e.g. "\cf sow2" and "\cf sow 2" are both accepted as links to "\lx sow \hm 2"

  • Allow x : y format for links from \lf, \cf, \va.

• Added a few more Spanish labels/captions.

Version 1.9.2 (Beta) - 16 July 2004

• Fixed: Some controls had lost the ability to accept characters typed with Keyman.

Version 1.9.1 (Beta) - 15 July 2004

• Export to Word:

  • Gutter/mirror margins added.

• Export to Web page:

  • Fixed: failure to build links for web page.

  • Fixed: failure to load generated web page with Firefox.

  • Field selection page added to wizard.

Version 1.9 (Beta) - 14 July 2004

• Change of application name to Lexique Pro.

• User Interface Enhancements:

  • Spanish interface added.

  • New components to allow Unicode support in Windows 98.

  • New program icon.

  • Images on menus.

  • Tool tips appear in left-side tree view when not enough room to show the whole node.

• Categories:

  • Support for semantic domains based on the Dictionary Development Program (Ron Moe), using the \is index of semantics field. To enable this, Lexique Pro has knowledge of all the DDP indexes and titles.

  • Links to sub-categories and parent category are displayed in the category listing. When you click on a category, if it doesn't have any entries, at least you get links to child/parent entries.

• Export to Word - Enhancements/Fixes:

  • Added option of exporting as Classified Dictionary (based on categories);

  • Now allows choice of which fields to export;

  • 'Keep with Next' is set in the styles for section titles, so they don't get orphaned at the bottom of the page.

  • Can export in Monochrome or Colour.

• Configuration:

  • Specify Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left explicitly for each language, and also for Phonetic form.

• Sub-entries:

  • Now displayed as part of main entry, but also linked to enable them to be viewed separately.

• Parsing lexicon and index construction

  • The ordering \sn 1 \ps... \sn 2 \ps... is supported as well as \ps \sn 1... \sn 2...

  • Fixed: Glosses and reversals are not split on commas.

• Updated version of installation program, with enhanced compression.

• Fixed: top and left margin settings were being ignored in the lexical entry display if the computer's regional language settings were set to French.

Version 1.8 (Beta) - 21 June 2004

• TECkit support for converting legacy font databases into Unicode on database load. (This is now used instead of hard-coded conversion which had been provided for a few selected fonts.) See the Fonts page in the Configure Lexicon wizard.

• Better handling of Right-To-Left languages:

  • Lookup edit box on a RTL index tab is right aligned.

  • RTL direction is set when displaying RTL languages - means that parenthesis is displayed correctly. Also works for export to Word or Web page.

• "Ignore characters" are ignored when doing lookup and searches. Also leading spaces are removed after ignore characters are removed.

• Corrected alphabetical sections for Word and Web export.

Version 1.7 (Beta) - 9 June 2004

• "About Language" button - displays user-defined language specific HTML pages - e.g. for an introduction to the language, linguistic info, acknowledgements, references. These are specified in the Configure Lexicon wizard. The "More Info" pages should be now used for more general organisation publicity etc.

• Allow links to Word documents, PDFs, mailto: from "About Language" and "More Info" pages.

• Sorting and indexing

  • Sorting was too slow - improved speed.

  • Fixed indexing problem: it was only selecting first and last gloss items.

  • If change only minor things (e.g. fonts, labels) in Configure wizard, no need to reload/resort lexicon.

• Display phonetic form.

• Configuration Wizard changes:

  • Allow specify language name in French as well as English.

  • Added Unicode conversion for Senegal Dakar fonts - for a clearer display.

  • Can specify font and formatting for phonetic form and example reference.

  • Edit marker and Edit category dialogs allow user to select from a list of available markers/semantic domains.

• Output filename/folder page in Word and Web export wizards.

• Index lists:

  • corrected problem with node heights, where it was not possible to click on all the nodes.

  • Right-to-Left index list for Arabic.

• Fixed category sub-entry problem.

• More keyboard shortcuts, e.g. CTRL+F "Search", CTRL+L "Lexicon", Alt-Right "Back", etc.

• French translations in Print Preview.

• Language name on splash screen.

• Google search when Scientific Name fields are clicked.

• Images should not be more than 250 pixels in width.

Version 1.6 (Beta) - 28 May 2004

• Configuration Wizard changes:

  • Category configuration page.

  • Label translation configuration page.

  • "Ignore Characters" in sort order.

  • Create Quick Launch shortcut.

• "About SIL" changed to "More Info" - to allow more general Info pages.

• Info Pages - language dependent: choose HTML index page depending on interface language: i.e. index-en.htm (English) or index.fr.htm (French). Otherwise index.htm if language-specific file is not found.

• Distribution Wizard changes:

  • Can now choose multiple lexicons to distribute together.

  • Can choose custom Info Pages - general or lexicon-specific.

  • Allow images to be placed in common folder - to be shared by other lexicons.

• Small images do not get enlarged.

• Fixed error in sorting non-ASCII languages.

• Multiple cross-refs followed by single gloss - display correctly.

• Save lexicon sort order for faster loading.

• Improved icons.

• Supports larger fonts in index/lexicon tree views - node height is changed.

• Print Preview.

• Encyclopaedic info, Usage and Variant fields.

• Configuration file - fixed to be well-formed XML.

Version 1.5 (Beta) - 20 May 2004

• Fixed to read Toolbox UTF-8 encoded files (new setting in Configuration Wizard).

• Added Distribution Wizard to automate creation of setup program for distribution.

  • user can choose which files they want to distribute

  • optional encryption of data files

  • setting of permissions

  • font installation

• Added case associations in Configuration Wizard.

• Added sorting on citation form.

• Spanish and Portuguese default case and sort orders added.

• Picture and Sound icons are not displayed if images/sounds cannot be found.

• Most recently used lexicons displayed on File menu.

• Added printing (File -> Print).

Version 1.4 (Beta) - 3 May 2004

• First beta release.

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