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12 January 2023 - 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 5.4 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 usual, you can have the... read more
09 January 2023 - Bloom
Thanks to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.3 while it was in Beta; it is now the Release.
See: What’s new in 5.3
Upgrading
If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically ask to update itself. Otherwise, you can get 5.3 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 have any questions about these new features, please ask them here... read more
03 November 2022 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.12.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.42.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are 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:
Enable control of the right indent of... read more
05 July 2022 - 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!
Reminder for SILers
Most SIL projects can freely use the SIL internal Enterprise License. Questions? Please shoot us an email at enterprise (ampersand) bloomlibrary.org.
Here’s what’s new in Bloom 5.3 beta:
Publish... read more
05 July 2022 - Bloom
Thank you everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.2 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release.
Here’s what’s new in 5.2:
Decodable Reader
When the Decodable Reader tool generates a report, it now includes a list of all the usable words for each level. Feature Request
BloomLibrary.org Upload
When you upload a book, Bloom checks to see if there is already a book with the same internal ID on the library. If it finds one, it now gives you two choices. You can replace the existing book or upload... read more
02 June 2022 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.11.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.41.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are 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 is a maintenance version that contains some improvements to the documentation and bug fixes.
If you have not previously installed... read more
23 February 2022 - 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!
Reminder for SILers
Most SIL projects can freely use the SIL internal Enterprise License. Questions? Please shoot us an email at enterprise (preposition) bloomlibrary.org.
Here’s what’s new in Bloom 5.2 beta:
Decodable... read more
17 February 2022 - Bloom
Thank you everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.1 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release.
Here’s what’s new in 5.1:
Collection Tab
You can now rename a book. Previously, Bloom always used the name of a book’s title. The new name appears under the thumbnail of the book and also the name of the folder on disk (see animation). Feature Request
Edit Tab
You can create hyperlinks that point to other pages in the same book. This can be used for creating your own simple Table of... read more
12 January 2022 - FLExTrans
Latest Version of FLExTrans
Please go to this link now for downloading the latest version of FLExTrans
Previous versions of FLExTrans as zip files.
(FLExTrans 3.2.1 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2.1 - November 4, 2021
Bug fixes
(FLExTrans 3.2 with Sense Linker 3.0 & Live Rule Tester 3.2.5) FLExTools20WithFLExTrans 3.2 - May 14, 2021
Support for doing syntax parsing and tree manipulation. You can now integrate with the program... read more
12 January 2022 - FLExTrans
Installation Instructions
The instructions have moved to this page.
07 January 2022 - Bloom
Keyman 15.0 beta
We are pleased to announce the release of Keyman 15 Beta. The most significant changes in version 15 are:
Android, iOS and Web
Caps Lock Layer + double-tap gesture (#5988, #5989)
Start of Sentence detection (#5963)
Developer
Core-based debugger (#5425, #5448, #5513)
Keyman Developer Server (#6033,#6034,#6035,#6036)
Improved native-mode debugger (#5696, #5640, #5647)
Web test no longer needs Developer tools for touch testing (#5723)
U_xxxx_yyyy identifiers (#5894)
We have... read more
13 December 2021 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.10.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.40.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are 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 is a maintenance version that contains some improvements to the documentation and bug fixes.
If you have not previously installed... read more
04 November 2021 - FLExTrans
FLExTrans Documentation
Here's some documentation on 'Getting Started', using the Sense Linker and Live Rule Tester tools and a tutorial on writing transfer rules. This documentation is also in the FLExTrans Documentation folder in the FlexTools 2.0 install folder.
Refer to Ron's thesis, A Linguist-Friendly Machine Translation System for Low-Resource Languages for a detailed description of the system.
Ron welcomes your emails for any help you need. Write to... read more
02 November 2021 - Bloom
Thank you everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.0 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release.
Here’s what’s new in 5.0:
Collection Tab
We made hovering over a book thumbnail show the folder name of the book. This is helpful to see what’s-what when you have multiple copies of a book.
Bookshelf selector
In collection settings, Bloom Enterprise projects that have bookshelves on Bloom Library can now choose the bookshelf that corresponds to the collection. Then when books are uploaded to... read more
30 June 2021 - XLingPaper
The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team announced today that there are new versions of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium, and Andika fonts. Many of us use one or more of these fonts. They say:
Note that this is a major upgrade. This may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and some features have been removed. Please do not assume that you can replace version 5 with version 6 with no resulting changes to your publications.
A couple of other things to note:
They do not... read more
04 May 2021 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.9.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.39.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are 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 ability to control the label for a... read more
09 November 2020 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.8.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.38.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are 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 a way to use content control to... read more
04 August 2020 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.7.5 (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, 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:
Allow XLingPaper to work on Mac OS X 10.15+ (Catalina).
Allow XLingPaper to use Charis SIL version 5.000 with graphite and font... read more
28 May 2020 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.7.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.37.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users, please see this special information regarding Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlights are:
Allow usage of MathML.
Allow citation elements to have a time stamp attribute (for referring to audio/visual media).
If you... read more
14 May 2020 - Webonary
Introducing Dictionary-Making and Lexicography Online Course on Google Sites
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