SIL FieldWorks

New Stable Release

susanna_imrie — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:18:08 +0000

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FieldWorks 7.2.4 is the new Stable Release of FieldWorks.

What’s New?
In FieldWorks 7.2, enhancements were focused in the Texts and Words area. In FieldWorks 7.1, improvements were made in Configure Dictionary options, and related Lexicon fields, as well as to lexical data exchange using LIFTBridge.

FieldWorks 7.2.4

susanna_imrie — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:50:21 +0000

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Beta release FieldWorks 7.2.4 is now available for download.
Unfortunately we are unable to make a patch to this version due to a bug in the patching mechanism.

Review the What’s New section for a list of bug fixes. Most significant in this release is the fixing of serious bugs in Send/Receive LIFT (using LIFTBridge) between FLEx users.
If you are a LIFTBridge user, you must download a new version of LIFTBridge to use it with FieldWorks 7.2.4.

FieldWorks 7.2.3

susanna_imrie — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:15:16 +0000

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Beta Patch release FieldWorks 7.2.3 is now available for download.

Review the What’s New section for a list of user-reported bug fixes and some additional enhancements.

FieldWorks 7.2.2

susanna_imrie — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:02:47 +0000

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Beta Patch release FieldWorks 7.2.2 is now available for download.

Review the What’s New section for a list of significant bug fixes.

FieldWorks 7.2

susanna_imrie — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:01:19 +0000

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Beta release FieldWorks 7.2 is now available for download.

In FieldWorks 7.2, enhancements were focused in the Texts and Words area:

There is now optionally a connection between a text and a Notebook record.

You can add a text in a Record
You can fill in a few Record fields in the Info tab of a Text
You can jump between a connected Record and Text.

Import enhancements

You can import texts in standard format including the baseline, and free form annotations such as a Free translation. (Does not yet import word glosses or other aspects of analysis.)
Progress made towards integration with ELAN in terms of time alignment data.

Export enhancements

You can export several Texts into one export document
Progress made towards integration with ELAN in terms of time alignment data.
Option to show the exported file in its folder

Organizing texts

You can now choose which Texts to include in concordance searches, lists of words and listed in the Texts list. This choice is presented by Genre then text title.

Statistics

You can now view more statistics about your corpus, including the number of sentences and the number of words in texts.

Zero-width spaces

Guess words breaks now inserts zero-width spaces. It has moved to the Insert menu.
Optional mode where click inserts a zero-width space.
Option to view invisible spaces in Baseline (shown as grey bar)

Concordance enhancements

Concord on grammatical category, in Word Cat line and in Lex. Gram. Info. line.
Concord on tags

Interlinear texts

You can now configure the interlinear via a context menu on the line labels.
When a word has more than one analysis to choose between this is now highlighted in yellow. Multiple glosses are also indicated with the number shown in yellow.
You can now approve all remaining suggested analyses in a text.
You can now gloss and analyze numerical digits.
Change to shortcut keys – Enter on the last word in a sentence will now move you to the Free translation, if shown. Use arrow keys to leave the free translation.

Chart right-to-left texts; the Text Chart tab now support right-to-left.

Other

Filter for jumps between Notebook and Lexicon. You can use a new right-click menu option to filter for an anthropology category.
Send feedback

Send error message
Dictionary view now has Bidi support – Where you would normally just put a space, if it might be between two pieces of LTR text that should be ordered with the first one on the right, you need the three-letter sequence RLM, space, RLM, where RLM is the Unicode character U+200F, the Right-to-left marker.
“Parse Words in Text” while on the Analyze tab now shows the results immediately.
Lots of bugs were fixed!

FieldWorks 7.1.1

ann_bush — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:35:07 +0000

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Beta release FieldWorks 7.1.1 SE and BTE are now available for download.

There were two areas of focus in our work on FieldWorks 7.1:

Improvements to Configure Dictionary options, and related Lexicon fields.
Improvements to the exchange of data with WeSay through the LIFT standard and LIFTBridge.

See the What’s New section on the download page for more details.

FieldWorks 7.1

susanna_imrie — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:21:35 +0000

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Beta release FieldWorks 7.1 BTE is now available for download.

There were two areas of focus in our work on FieldWorks 7.1:

Improvements to Configure Dictionary options, and related Lexicon fields.
Improvements to the exchange of data with WeSay through the LIFT standard and LIFTBridge.

See the What’s New section on the download page for more details.

FieldWorks 7.0.6

susanna_imrie — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:53:02 +0000

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FieldWorks 7.0.6 has been released.
This upgrade fixes some problems discovered since FieldWorks 7.0.5 was released in July.

There are patches available to minimize your download if you have been using a recent version of FieldWorks 7.

FieldWorks 7.0.5

susanna_imrie — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:21:46 +0000

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FieldWorks 7.0.5 has been released for Windows users!

A sample of what’s new since FieldWorks 6:

Greatly improved performance, e.g. it is faster to switch between entries in Lexicon Edit.
FieldWorks BTE can be updated with patches; you do not need to download the entire program each time there are new bug fixes available.
Backup files can include settings (e.g. dictionary configuration) and linked files (e.g. pictures) as well as data.
A restore can be triggered by double-clicking on the fwbackup file in Windows Explorer.

For more details see the sections “What’s New” and “What’s Different” on the download page.

We recommend users of FieldWorks 6 (and earlier) upgrade to FieldWorks 7.0.5. Please follow the on-screen instructions and read the extra information on migrating your projects to FieldWorks 7 format.

The Linux version is still in beta but can be downloaded here by those who wish to try it and give feedback.

FieldWorks 7.0.3

susanna_imrie — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:02:49 +0000

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The third release candidate of FieldWorks 7 has been released for Windows users.

We are continuing to fix bugs before releasing this as the new stable release, so please let us know if you discover problems which you think make this a worse choice than the last stable release FieldWorks 6.0.6. Thanks!

(For information on bugs we are working on right now, see Known Issues.)