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What's New?

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Version 2.8.3 - 19 March 2008

  • Various bug fixes:

    • Fixed: under some circumstances the usage field could not be exported.

    • Fixed: senses containing only a definition field (\de, etc.) were ignored.

    • Fixed: problem exporting pictures which were seen as having zero width.

    • Fixed: categories did not show up when creating a new database.

    • Fixed: viewing categories as DDP was broken.

    • Fixed: allow removal of alternative representations of the lexicon language.

Version 2.8.2 - 25 January 2008

  • Fixed categories initialisation problem in first-time configuration wizard.

Version 2.8.1 - 21 January 2008

  • Export to Web Page:

    • Include pictures in web page export.

  • Editing:

    • Template of markers for new record can be edited. See Configuration > Display > Edit Settings.

Version 2.8 - 10 January 2008

  • Export:

    • Pictures can be positioned before or after entries, or before or after the senses in which they appear.

    • Word 2007 document format export added, i.e. Office Open XML, *.docx. Please note that the previous Export to Word document via HTML has been removed. If you are using Microsoft Word 2000, XP or 2003 you can download a compatibility pack from here in order to read the Office Open XML .docx files.

    • Lexicon Interchange FormaT (LIFT XML) export improved - partial implementation of LIFT 0.11.

    • Results page is displayed after exporting documents, rather than launching Word immediately.

  • Configuration:

    • Markers can be turned on or off in Configuration > Data Source > Markers page.

  • Added recognition of notes markers for display and export:

    • Notes (anthropology) - \na

    • Notes (discourse) - \nd

    • Notes (grammar) - \ng

    • Notes (phonology) - \np

    • Notes (questions) - \nq

    • Notes (sociolinguistics) - \ns

    • Notes (general) - \nt

  • Changed file extensions :

    • Configuration file: .lpConfig

    • LIFT export: .lift

  • Bug fixes:

    • Fixed: Bad date formats in database caused critical failure in loading lexicon.

    • Fixed: Include *.lex as possible database file extension.

Version 2.7 - 28 September 2007

  • Various fixes for better Windows Vista compatibility.

  • Export as LIFT (Lexicon Interchange FormaT) XML format (beta - partial implementation)

Version 2.6.13 - 17 April 2007

  • Fixed:

    • Sorting of lexical entries was broken when using alternative lexical forms.

Version 2.6.12 - 14 April 2007

  • Fixed:

    • Access Violation often occurred when closing the program.

    • Access Violation sometimes occurred when switching between gloss language tabs in initial configuration.

    • "Can't focus window" error message sometimes appeared in Configuration.

    • If two or more "\de" markers are found one after the other, concatenate the contents rather than taking only the last one.

    • If a word appears in parenthesis in a hyperlink (e.g. a cross-reference), it can be ignored when searching for the linked word.

Version 2.6.11 - 26 February 2007

  • Formatting:

    • allow turning off of hyperlink formatting in morphology fields. (See Formatting > Field Display)

  • Fixed:

    • Categories - access violation when expanding category tree view.

    • Export to Document - Index document was not always exported in the language chosen.

    • Export to Web - Unicode characters in synonyms were exported as ?

Version 2.6.10 - 3 February 2007

  • Formatting:

    • allow |u{} for underlining

    • allow formatting in morphology fields (\mr)

  • Fixed: Language selection box in Translation label window did not work properly.

Version 2.6.9 - 27 January 2007

  • Configuration:

    • Field Styles: Example, Morphology, Lexical Function, Paradigm etc. styles are now listed individually (rather than being grouped as 'Normal Text'). In this way their formats can be modified separately, colours changed, etc.

    • User Interface Styles 'Index List' and 'Search Box' moved to separate tab so not to confuse them with the database field formatting styles.

  • Export to Document:

    • Added 'Keep lines together' option - to avoid entry paragraphs splitting across pages.

    • Added A5 and B5 paper sizes.

    • Fixed: Lexical entry name font size and bold setting was not exported as set up in the configuration.

    • Fixed: Coloured User styles were still being exported as coloured even when selecting 'Monochrome'.

Version 2.6.8 - 8 December 2006

  • Bug fix:

    • Fixed: Superscript tone marks (1, 2, 3, etc.) were cut from the end of some of the displayed lexical function fields.

Version 2.6.7 - 24 November 2006

  • Various bug fixes:

    • Fixed: User interface froze sometimes when scrolling up and down an index list at speed.

    • Fixed: In web export, the stylesheet and index.htm files were written as Unicode rather than UTF-8.

Version 2.6.6 - 23 October 2006

  • Various bug fixes:

    • Fixed: Some Alphabet buttons and home page links were greyed out even when there were words beginning with these letters.

    • Fixed: If no <title> is given in the About or Info html pages, a default title should be displayed rather than blank.

    • Fixed: Allow Cancel button to be pressed to abort out of 'Export to Web' wizard.

    • Fixed: If using Unicode, the web export wizard should export HTML files in UTF-8 format without needing to encode higher Unicode characters with code numbers.

    • Fixed: Index view was not sorted properly when the gloss language was Portuguese.

  • User interface components updated to latest versions.

Version 2.6.5 - 26 August 2006

  • Various bug fixes:

    • Slight modifications to Chinese and Kinyarwanda interfaces.

    • Fixed: Words with ä ë ï ö and ü should be found when searching, even if you omit the accents in the search phrase.

Version 2.6.4 - 26 June 2006 (Limited distribution)

  • More user interface languages added:

    • Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified) and Kinyarwanda (for Rwanda in East Africa)

    • Significant changes to user interface components to allow for Unicode interface (e.g. Chinese).

    • Changed design of input dialogs for specifying translations of language names and labels in the various UI languages.

  • Alternative Representations of lexical language:

    • If your database contains alternative representations of the lexical (vernacular) language - e.g. in a different script, phonetic transcription - these can be displayed and a sort index tab generated.

    • See 'Advanced' tab of the 'Lexicon Language' page.

  • DDP version 4 domains added for category display.

  • Various bug fixes:

    • Fixed: Error message appeared when deleting last field of a record.

    • Fixed: Keyboard switching did not work properly.

    • Fixed: Some JPG images did not get displayed - their size was not read properly.

    • Fixed: Omit rules were not always applied correctly.

    • Fixed: Menus and buttons should be disabled when loading a dictionary.

    • Fixed: User-defined styles should be enabled in sense number fields.

    • Fixed: Formatting code problem: e.g. in "A club: thing for hitting" the "ub:" would be interpreted as underline-bold.

    • Fixed: Distribution of About language and Info pages missed some pages where the <a> tag was split over several lines.

Version 2.6.3 - 19 April 2006

  • Fixed: 'Floating Point Conversion' error on reloading database on non-English computers.

  • Fixed: Borrowed word field was not being exported.

  • Fixed: Error displaying numbered tone markers.

  • Fixed: Repeated categories in multiple senses were not displayed.

  • Change of compiler.

Version 2.6.2 - 10 March 2006

  • Sorting

    • "Ignore Spaces" added as an option.

Version 2.6.1 - 4 March 2006

  • Export to Document:

    • Fixed: Fonts not being set correctly for OpenDocument (.odt) documents.

  • Parsing database and building index:

    • Fixed: Out of memory error when loading items with lots of '(' and ')' characters.

  • Display:

    • Better handling of sense numbers and part-of-speech combinations, e.g. when there is no gloss.

Version 2.6 - 27 February 2006

  • Display:

    • Portuguese added as an interface language (in addition to the existing English, French and Spanish).

    • WMF, EMF and PCX images can now be displayed (in addition to JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP which were already supported).

    • Vernacular gloss field added (\gv), useful for monolingual dictionaries.

    • Lexicon loading progress messages added in French.

    • Fixed: Sense numbers were not displayed if all glosses had language labels.

    • Fixed: Formatting codes in paradigm fields were not handled properly if using curly brackets.

    • Fixed: Do not add a hyperlink to a morphology field which is not hyphenated.

    • Fixed: If there were many alphabet letters (e.g. like in Chinese), the program was spending too much time creating alphabet buttons on the right of the screen that were never seen.

    • Fixed: Should not display sense number '1' if there is only one sense.

  • Export to Document:

    • Pictures can now be exported in documents.

      • New 'Pictures' page added to Export Document wizard.

      • Choice of which images to include.

      • Specify default width.

    • Fixed: Subentries were output twice.

    • Fixed: Problem with document export and MDF field styles (fv, uc, etc.) if special characters were present.

    • Fixed: Omitted records were exported.

  • Parsing database and building index:

    • Fixed: Problem with alternative marker hierarchy where sub-entries and sense numbers are used.

    • Fixed: Formatting codes should be removed from index items.

    • Fixed: When building the index, if a gloss begins with an word in parenthesis, Lexique Pro should ignore this word, e.g. '(se) sauver' should be entered into the index as 'sauver' - rather than ignoring the word altogether.

  • Configuration:

    • Maximum length of fields markers increased to 20.

  • Distribution:

    • Fixed: If an image had been specified with a full path, it would not be distributed properly.

    • Fixed: 'About Language' page images were not always distributed properly.

  • Editor:

    • Fixed: If Insert field dialog was cancelled, the extra line inserted was not undone.

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