FieldWorks 7.2

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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!