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08 July 2015 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 2.27.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow abbrRef elements wherever “embedded” elements can go, not just in the limited places allowed before. Allow more than one email address for a given author. You can obtain an installation program for Windows, Mac or Linux at http://www.xlingpaper.org/?page_id=51. If you have already installed XLingPaper version 2.10.0... read more
09 April 2015 - XLingPaper
An XLingPaper user has written an interesting blog post on how he has used XLingPaper’s content control mechanism to make it easier to write a single document and use it for a paper, a handout, and slides (and also for notes for the talk). See https://atoznback.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/writing-presentations-in-xlingpaper/.
02 February 2015 - WeSay
WeSay 1.5 is now considered the official “release version”. The Windows version can be downloaded here: and there are installation instructions for Linux on the downloads page. Most of the known bugs have been fixed. However, do check out our “Known Issues” below.

New since the Release Candidate version

Fixed a minor display problem for task tabs in localized versions.

Known Issues in WeSay 1.5

When doing Send/Receive, sometimes it times out after 900 seconds (15 minutes... read more
18 December 2014 - WeSay
A release candidate of WeSay 1.5 is now available. The Windows version can be downloaded here: and there are installation instructions for Linux on the downloads page. Most of the known bugs have been fixed, and this version is very close to being called stable. However, do check out our “Known Issues” below.

New since the Beta version

Send/Receive is now much more reliable and less likely to crash. Keyboards in general work better on Trusty. Automatic keyboard switching is now... read more
03 November 2014 - Pathway
This is a new version of OdtXslt that adds another transform to put the back link on a book name before the chapter number and at the top of each book it adds a link back to the table of contents. The text of the link back to the table of contents can be changed by changing the defined parameter in the .bat file. When there are long books, the epub export breaks them into multiple files inside the epub. In order to get the book names right for the chapters in the second and subsequent files, it... read more
01 November 2014 - Pathway
If a book was long, the ApplyAddVerseLinks transform only created the correct link for the first part of the book. With this update, this has been fixed and the link from all chapters back to the beginning of the book should work. You can download this latest version here.
21 October 2014 - WeSay
After a significant pause, a development team has been working on WeSay for Linux for the last several months.  The focus has been on getting it to run on the Precise and Trusty versions of Ubuntu Linux, and to have all the features of the Windows version.  At the same time, the Windows version was updated in the areas of keyboards and Send/Receive. We have now released a beta version of WeSay 1.5.  The Windows version can be downloaded here: and there are installation instructions for Linux... read more
20 October 2014 - WeSay
WeSay 1.4 has now been declared stable. Here’s what’s new in WeSay 1.4, which Windows users can download here:

Gather by SIL CAWL in Indonesian

The gather words task for the SIL CAWL list now allows prompts in Indonesian as well as Portuguese, Swahili, and Hausa.

Smaller .NET

WeSay now uses .NET 4.0 Client Profile.  Previous versions used .NET 3.5 Full Profile.

Bug Fixes

Fixed problem with keyboards with dashes in their name. Fixed problem with unreliable word... read more
15 September 2014 - Pathway
Summary: small adjustments to latest outputs Epub3 TD-4176 Validation Error in D33 Open Office Writer TD-4179 PDF missing reversal Table of Contents in bookmarks pane TD-4181 Table of contents missing from epub3 TD-4182 Missing space after glossary term You can use the Download link at pathway.sil.org/download to get the latest sprint release
09 September 2014 - Pathway
Summary: Add glossary linking to E-pub and theWord/MySword. Fix End note and References logic. Bug fixes and user interface adjustments. Common Code TD-4123 Apply license error with Prince. TD-4162 Picture doesn’t properly appear in the Prince output. Epub3 TD-4129 E-pub glossary pop ups TD-4131 Close button in E-pub type window should open E-Book TD-4134 epub3 output does not have endnote TD-4135 Epub3 e-book output does not have hierarchy TD-4137... read more
08 August 2014 - Pathway
Summary: Epub3 output, Implement MySword conversion on Linux

Detail Issues

Epub3 TD-4054 Create XSLT to transform Dictionore to (x)html5 TD-4057 Modify the package declaration for epub3 TD-4058 Produce epub3 complaint package TD-4059 For dictionary, only letter heads in spine TD-4060 Scripture TOC and Landmarks TD-4061 create epub3 destination TD-4063 Add Epub2 and Epub3 sub folders with files. TD-4064 Export Epub3 output TD-4065 Create Dialog... read more
05 August 2014 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 2.26.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add ability to copy a table from a Word, Excel, or web page document and produce a draft XLingPaper table. See section 11.53 “Copy Word or Excel Table to XLingPaper” in the user documentation. Add how to convert interlinear to listInterlinear (or vice versa) to user documentation. See section 11.52 “Convert Interlinear to... read more
24 June 2014 - Pathway
This post overcomes a rather obscure issue remaining in the current version of LibreOffice (4.2.5). The issue was noticed with the Annapurna font (for the Devanagari script). When a reference is made to a head word with a homograph number, there appears to be a space between the headword and the homograph number. Take this example: Note the space before the homograph number in the variant form. If the same data is displayed using the browser the space is not there. There is no space in the... read more
20 June 2014 - Pathway
Summary: fix issues identified by test team, Dictionary for MIDs Reversal, Provide Student Manual and more help online. Common Code TD-3984 Question tag appears on the scripture header in Pdf Prince TD-3989 Use default locations if registry not accessible TD-3895 License information on copyright page Installer TD-3992 Update bootstrap logic to install XeLaTeX from Team City Open Office Writer TD-3481 Add guild words for minor entries TD-3898 Square boxes appears in PDF output after... read more
14 May 2014 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 2.25.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add a command to convert a paper to a chapter which can then be included in a book (such as a thesis or dissertation). Add ability to have an annotated bibliography. See section 4.5.18 “Annotated Bibliography” in the user documentation. Add option to exampleLayout to start example numbering over in each chapter. Rework... read more
19 September 2013 - XLingPaper
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow a tablenumbered element to contain an image file (which, presumably, will be of a table). Add ability to have a book contain a collection of papers (each paper as a chapter). See section 17 “Chapters in a Collection Volume” in the user documentation. Add hangingIndent element as a kind of paragraph. See section 16 “Hanging Indent Paragraph” in the user documentation. Add ability to... read more
11 May 2013 - XLingPaper
The main highlights are: Improved publisher style sheet capabilities to handle new things like those required by UNDSIL theses and other publishers, including an “author over date” references style. For reference items for which there is no known author, add a way to show the title in the author position. Provide a way to have the XLingPaper menu options be shorter so they fit on small computer screens. Remove requirement that the page layout parameters of a publisher style sheet all have the... read more
14 March 2013 - SayMore
I recently had a stimulating time at the 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation at the University of Hawaii. There are so many warm, friendly, and energetic people working in this space. Here’s the presentation I gave:
22 February 2013 - XLingPaper
The main highlights are: Add ability to publisher style sheets to control the indent for any second and following interlinear line groups and to control the vertical space between any second and following interlinear line groups. Add ability to control the column widths used in any automatically generated table of abbreviations used. Let showLevel attribute of contents element have a value of 0 so that one can have a book whose table of contents shows chapters without any sections. Enable... read more
16 November 2012 - WeSay
WeSay is available for older versions of the Linux Ubuntu distribution, Lucid being the most recent. There are two releases available, wesay-stable and wesay. The wesay release is our development release that has our latest features, but may have more issues as we are actively working on it. wesay-stable will have less features, but may be more reliable. Before you use it, you need to know that there are some features in the Windows version that are not present in the Linux version! So be sure... read more