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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.

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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!

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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.

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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. ]]> http://fieldworks.sil.org/fw-7/feed/ 0 http://fieldworks.sil.org/fw-706/ http://fieldworks.sil.org/fw-706/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:53:02 +0000 susanna_imrie http://fieldworks.sil.org/?p=1488

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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The second 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.)

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

We hope to release this as the stable release soon, 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!

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The second beta version of the upcoming FieldWorks 7 has been released for Windows users. A new patch is available to enable you to upgrade from Beta 1 to beta 2 with a much smaller download.

Please let us know about the bugs you find. Please tell us if you find a repeatable crashing bug, a feature which is broken in some way compared to earlier versions, if you encounter an installation problem, or you experience data loss. In particular, if you try the new patch and experience a problem, be sure to let us know! Thank you!