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18 September 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.2 for Android and iOS. Download links:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for side-loading
iOS / Apple App Store
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.2 is a patch release, containing a fix for the following:
Fixed an issue where the back button was navigating to the wrong screen from some settings pages (#598).
You can find more information in our issue tracker.
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09 September 2024 - FLExTrans
New Rule Assistant for Automatic Rule Creation
FLExTrans now has a Rule Assistant module. It gives you a graphical way to define things like agreement and then it generate the needed Apertium rules automatically. This module is very powerful. It can generate multiple rules which might consist of dozens of sets of conditional logic blocks. Constituents of the phrase can be reordered; affixes can be reordered, added or deleted and much more. New modules: Text In Rules and Text Out Rules... read more 06 September 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.1 for Android and iOS. Download links:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for sideloading
iOS / Apple App Store
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.1 is a patch release, containing a fix for a versification bug that was causing a hang when importing USFM for the book of Joshua (#595). No other changes were made for this release.
You can find more information in our issue tracker.
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28 August 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile release 1.17.0 for Android and iOS. You can download Adapt It Mobile from the following sources:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for side-loading
iOS / Apple App Store
What’s new in release 1.17.0
If you have a bluetooth keyboard, you can now select the words in a phrase you want to merge and start typing. Adapt It Mobile will automatically merge the words... read more 13 July 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.16.4 for Android! You can download version 1.16.4 from the following links:
Android / Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / F-Droid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / APK for side-loading: https://github.com/adapt-it/adapt-it-mobile/releases/download/v1.16.4/app-release.57.apk
Apple users can... read more
11 July 2024 - Solid
Solid is a Windows program that can be used to check, clean up, and convert standard format lexicon data.
Solid 1.0 is a bug fix release based on updated SIL dependencies. It should be used instead of older versions. This release fixes a crash on startup and adds the ability to resize the marker settings panel.
There is no dedicated team developing Solid – this is unsupported software with no guarantee of future bug fixes or enhancements. That said, you are welcome to submit issues to our... read more
28 June 2024 - Bloom
If you run Bloom on the beta channel, you are a crucial part of the Bloom team. Your help ensures that folks who don’t have easy access to technical support get a solid product when the beta becomes the release version. Thank you!
See what’s new in 6.0 Beta
Getting the Beta
If you already have a beta version, Bloom will automatically ask to update itself. Otherwise, you can get the beta from the Bloom downloads page. As... read more 20 June 2024 - Bloom
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.6 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release.
See: What’s new in 5.6
Upgrading
If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically ask to update itself. Otherwise, you can get 5.6 from the Bloom downloads page. As usual, you can have the Release & Beta versions installed at the same time, and open books in either one. If you are on the beta channel, you can stay there. We will... read more 12 June 2024 - Adapt It
Feature changes and new features in 6.11.1
The parser of input source text has been extensively revised. It’s more capable, and works well with a greater variety of novel (but correct) USFM markup structures. The filtering and un-filtering (hiding and showing) of certain markers has been significantly revised. Previously, this function did not handle well situations where multiple adjacent markers were filtered, for example, when \ms (major section head), \mr... read more 06 June 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce the release of Adapt It Mobile 1.16.3 for Android and iOS, available today through the Google Play store and Apple Store. Download links:
– iOS App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adapt-it-mobile/id1031605993?ls=1&mt=8– Android / Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaptit.adaptitmobile– Android / F-Droid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.adaptit.adaptitmobile– Android / APK for... read more
20 May 2024 - Paratext
Imagine printing a high-quality draft of Scripture, complete with pictures, formatting, and other important details in just minutes. PTXprint makes this possible, and it now replaces the “Print Draft” option in Paratext 9.4.
Scripture printed during a PTXprint workshop
It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the possibilities. However, the default settings are typically adequate for a quality draft printout, though you may want to make a few adjustments.
To help you get started printing drafts... read more
09 May 2024 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.15.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlights are:
Add the SortReferences command to sort a references master list file.
Add the... read more
24 April 2024 - FLExTrans
Source features in the bilingual lexicon, FlexTools 2.3.1
Inflection feature and class abbreviations are now included on the source side of the Bilingual Lexicon. This means you no longer have to delete source features and classes that previously got carried over to the target word in your transfer rules. FlexTools 2.3.1 has nice new features we are taking advantage of in FLExTrans Tabs for collections instead of switching collections with a dialog box. The Tools collection now has... read more 23 April 2024 - Webonary
This newsletter highlights the Plautdietsch dictionary on Webonary.
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22 April 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce the release of Adapt It Mobile 1.16.2 for Android and iOS, available today through the Google Play store and Apple Store. Download links:
iOS App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adapt-it-mobile/id1031605993?ls=1&mt=8
Android / Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / F-Droid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / APK for... read more
21 February 2024 - Paratext
Join us for our webinar on using Paratext and FieldWorks together!
The integration of Paratext and FieldWorks (FLEx) received an upgrade with Paratext 9.4! You now have the option to use your FLEx lexicon to offer suggestions in the Paratext Interlinearizer.
Here is a brief video demonstrating this new functionality:
To learn more about this and other ways to integrate Paratext and FieldWorks, stay tuned for recording of the Paratext – FieldWorks Integration webinar.
We plan... read more
20 February 2024 - FLExTrans
Linking data between similar languages accelerates translation efforts in the Philippines.
When members of the Ayta Mag-Antsi community heard the book of Ruth read aloud in their language for the first time, something surprising occurred… Read more in: Connecting the Dots | SIL International 02 February 2024 - FLExTrans
FlexTools 2.3, Interface improvements
FLExTrans now uses FlexTools 2.3 and Python 3.11 which is now part of the FLExTrans install. (Python 3.11 or higher will work with FLExTrans) The Live Rule Tester now has zoom controls to increase or decrease the text size. The Live Rule Tester now remembers which words were checked for a sentence. In the Sense Linker tool, the Source Text combo box is now on the left side. The hyperlinks that FLExTrans creates in the source project now include... read more 24 January 2024 - Paratext
The Paratext Newsletter: Sharing helpful info, updates, and announcements about Paratext
Paratext 9.4 – Auto-update scheduled for Jan 29
Paratext 9.4 is available now, with updates and improvements to many different features: Projects and resources update notification Improved Right-to-Left interface Improved quotations checking Export/Import Biblical Terms lists Improved Study Bible authoring* Improved Paratext-FLEx integration And more… Auto-... read more 12 December 2023 - Webonary
This newsletter introduces Peter Oatley who has joined Dictionary & Lexicography Services.
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