Release Notes

  • The work in FieldWorks version 9.2.x has focused on adding the ability to export dictionaries directly to Word.
  • There are some new features in the area of the automatic parsers.
  • Very little has changed in other parts of FLEx, apart from a number of bug fixes.
  • With this version, only 64-bit installers will be available.

Changes in version 9.2.11

  • LT-22249 Importing a copy from flextext damages original text.
  • LT-22267 Slow response in interlinear combos.
  • LT-22185 Etymology source display not following style in Fieldworks view.

Changes in version 9.2.10

  • LT-21766 Reversal Index Sort Order discrepancy between FLEx and Webonary.
  • LT-21981 Pasted text retains writing system.
  • LT-22002 Crash Occurred while changing same name Character and Paragraph Styles.
  • LT-22038 Tone diacritics are hardly visible in Grammar/Phonemes/Grapheme area.
  • LT-22101 a. When creating an affix template slot in a subcategory, store it in the subcategory instead of the parent category.
  • LT-22136 “Hide WS” should not change the order of Writing Systems1.
  • LT-22158 With Hermit Crab, Try a Word gets “Object reference not set to an instance if an object”.
  • LT-22159, LT-22163 Crash on variant entry with two entry types of different classes.

Changes in version 9.2.9 compared to FW 9.1.25

General Issues:

  • LT-17398 [New Feature] Add Exemplar field to Senses.
  • LT-8297 [New Feature] Ability to move fields up and down in Lexicon Edit.
  • LT-20509 Words with undefined phonemes can’t be deleted from Word Analyses.
  • LT-20987 Crash occurs in Manage Dictionary view dialog.
  • LT-21388 FlexBridge merge breaks xml:space, resulting in lost spaces.
  • LT-21388 FlexBridge merge breaks xml:space, resulting in lost spaces.
  • LT-21686 ‘Configure Dictionary view’ navigates to wrong field if it has a Subsense in an entry.
  • LT-21737 Configure Dictionary highlighting is not working correctly.
  • LT-21829 Lexical Relations no longer being restricted by Publications.
  • LT-21839 Unable to Paste in text due to Yellow box Error.
  • LT-21955 Remove Display in Paragraph configuration on normal note fields.
  • LT-21963 Copy ms localization to zlm for standard Malay.
  • LT-22008 Some ELAN flextext files cannot be loaded into Flex.
  • LT-21461 Double-clicking an abstract entry in ‘choose allomorph’ dialog box causes a crash
  • LT-21996 Disable links to Minor Entries when the Minor Entry node is disabled.
  • LT-18555 “Upgrade to the latest Graphite engine.
  • LT-21731 Awami renders incorrectly on Baseline tab.
  • LT-21963 Copy ms localization to zlm for standard Malay.
  • LT-22058 In XLingPaper interlinear export, multiple texts get same IDs.
  • LT-22059 In XLingPaper word-oriented interlinear export, if the first word had no analysis, only the first line of interlinear was output.
  • LT-22060 In XLingPaper word-oriented interlinear export, a language may be used that is not in list of languages.
  • LT-21826 Display usage figures in Publish In dialog shows inverted values.
  • LT-22057 Duplicate Analysis ws created for English.
  • LT-22076 Homographs in Lexical Relations not working correctly with publications.

New features in the parser:

  • LT-21898 Allow Phonological Features to be specified on RHS of Affix Process Rule.
  • LT-21911 Create Novel Root Guesser.
  • LT-21728 Improve order of suggested parses in interlinear view.
  • LT-21756 Add Parser Test Reports capabilities for the parsers.
  • LT-22132 Allow ability to reorder Affix Templates.

Parser related:

  • LT-18682 In the Hermit Crab parser, add parentheses around phonemes in the “Try a word” parsing details.
  • LT-20849 Words cut off in RTL baseline view.
  • LT-20850 Ad hoc query add dialog with RTL WS hides text.
  • LT-20852 Nothing showing in Insert Morpheme Breaks textbox for RTL WS.
  • LT-21584 The Grammatical Info window in the Lexicon-Entry screen is too small.
  • LT-21689 Texts are partially visible under the ‘Occurrence’ column when sorted by ‘Sorted From End’ option.
  • LT-21700 Crash occurred in the Lexeme Form Environments field after copying/pasting a value from the Allomorph Environments.
  • LT-21864 Undo crash in Allomorph – “Affix Process Rule” field.
  • LT-21934 FLEx freezes when clicking “Close” on Try a Word if parse hasn’t completed.
  • LT-21956 Crash while selecting ‘Select All (Ctrl+A)’ in the ‘Affix Processor Rule’ result field.
  • LT-21971 Crash adding a Feature Set under certain circumstances.
  • LT-21783 Stem Name field shows nothing in Browse view.
  • LT-21966 Inflection features not showing correctly in browse column.
  • LT-21883, LT-18677, LT-20753, LT-20314 “NotOnClitics” option unchecked runs phonological rules twice.
  • LT-21939 Hermit Crab reporting a null object reference.
  • LT-20175, LT-21967, LT-21969 Error results when using “Try A Word”.
  • LT-21088, LT-22011 Crashes or yellow box related to moving slots in templates.
  • LT-21974 Forced to click the “Phonemes” link(Insert option) twice to get “Choose Phoneme” dialog box.
  • LT-21653 After creating a new project, the title header in the Texts & Words View is displayed as “No Record”.
  • LT-15909 Crash selecting ‘none of the above’ in inflection features in Bulk edit List Choice.
  • LT-20645 Crash when clicking above the “Affix Template/STEM” menu button.
  • LT-21427 Clear Parser Analyses needs to say “for this word”.
  • LT-21795 Inflection features display in inconsistent orders.
  • LT-21947 Enable XAmple parser to handle Quechua better.

Webonary and media files:

  • LT-21470 Creator name is squished when its long in the Picture Properties dialog.
  • LT-21706 Modify UX for upload to Webonary and restrict upload of images without license info.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21887 Crash sending non-.wav files to Webonary.
  • LT-21933 Picture thumbnail is not showing in configuration dictionary dialog.

Changes in version 9.2.9 compared to the previous Beta version (9.2.8)

  • LT-21633 Create Word Export for Dictionary and Reversals.
  • LT-21673 Implement Bidirectional text handling in Word Export.
  • LT-21674 Export all Before/After content as content using the Dictionary-Context style.
  • LT-21978 The message “Rejected files” is displayed even though images were uploaded successfully on Webonary, leading to confusion.
  • LT-22048 Flex display not showing first analysis font and size for picture copyright info.
  • LT-22050 Webonary not showing first analysis font and size for picture copyright info.
  • LT-22090 Green box crash in IsLexicalPattern.
  • LT-22091 Lexical Relations not highlighted when chosen with yellow box in Configuration.
  • LT-22103 Crash opening list chooser on multiple fields.
  • LT-22104 Fails to navigate to the correct Reversal Indexes from the Lexicon view.
  • LT-22105 -Word export fails with pictures.
  • LT-22106 -Fields missing writing systems in Word export when font is same.
  • LT-22107 Crash while clicking the “Default Inflection Class” ellipsis button.
  • LT-22110 Intermittent crash in Segment.get_AnalysesRS.
  • LT-22112 RTL grammatical info in wrong place in Word export.
  • LT-22113 List items with style not using the style in Word export.
  • LT-22125 FLEx crashes when creating a new entry: “locale seh not available on this machine”.
  • LT-22128 FLEx crashes when deleting the attached picture.
  • LT-22129 Crash while clicking the “Insert Affix Template” link.
  • LT-21929 Table formatting missing style color in Word export.
  • LT-21767 Word Export: Selecting Bold in Dictionary-Normal style causes headwords to unbold.
  • LT-22039 xhtml has new nodeId causing problems for DAB.

Changes in version 9.2.8

  • LT-9222 “***” appearing between inflectional features and values in Lex Edit and dictionary.
  • LT-12587 “Bulk Edit-List Choice should allow removing inflection features..
  • LT-21205 Feature bundles should obey the order set in Feature Types list.
  • LT-21206 Features label misleading: “Show Abbr as label”.
  • LT-21729 Reduce the delay in writing cached data in shared projects.
  • LT-21785 Support multiple runs with different language tags in a single document fragment.
  • LT-21817 Unable to specify complex feature values for Complex Concordance searches.
  • LT-21827 FLEx failed to display the correct WS when one of the WS does not have any reversal entries.
  • LT-21879 Fix issue with picture display for some non-ascii filenames.
  • LT-21952 Gray divider line too faint.
  • LT-21964 Subentry headwords cause problems in Word export guidewords.
  • LT-21983 Crash deleting phoneme features set.
  • LT-21990 Manual refresh needed when changing the publication.
  • LT-22032 Paratext 9.5 – whitespaces and invisible characters.
  • LT-22036 Right-clicking in the dictionary Preview pane doesn’t go to the right place in the configuration when using a different UI language.
  • LT-22065 Don’t show red squiggles when vernacular spell-checking is off.
  • LT-22072 Don’t have the delete FLEx project dialog be multi-select on click.
  • LT-22095 Affix Template not duplicating correctly starting in version 9.2.5.
  • LT-22098 Pictures in Word export have an extra paragraph below each picture.

Changes in version 9.2.7

  • LT-7810 Ability to clear Inflection Class in Bulk Edit.
  • LT-21730 “Jump to incomplete” should take into account what is showing.
  • LT-21953 Sort Reversal Subentries crashes when subentry missing form.
  • LT-22049 Word export not using correct font and size for letter headers.
  • LT-22064 Issue with uppercase words in the “Word Analyses” view.
  • LT-22081 Last page of Word export doesn’t balance columns.

Picture Related:

  • LT-22052 Start using Textboxes instead of Textframes for pictures.
  • LT-22054 Add ability for user to control location of pictures, and height/width limits.
  • LT-22055 Honor picture settings in XHTML and Word export.

Changes in version 9.2.6

  • LT-21772 Implement list and paragraph options.
  • LT-21818 Issues exporting Indian languages to a document: Complex Font.
  • LT-21962 Bulk Edit Reversal filter not showing independent ws filters.
  • LT-21970 S/R failure with reordering data entry fields.
  • LT-22001 “Hide WS” should not hide it from Configure Columns.
  • LT-22002 Crash Occurred while changing same name Character and Paragraph Styles.
  • LT-22021 Add Word export doc to Help > Resources menu.
  • LT-22025 Font and font size not applied to picture copyright styles.
  • LT-22041 Flex crashes on opening with a given picture.

Changes in version 9.2.5 (Beta) compared to FW 9.1 (stable)

General Issues:

  • LT-8297 [New Feature] Ability to move fields up and down in Lexicon Edit.
  • LT-20509 Words with undefined phonemes can’t be deleted from Word Analyses.
  • LT-20987 Crash occurs in Manage Dictionary view dialog.
  • LT-21388 FlexBridge merge breaks xml:space, resulting in lost spaces.
  • LT-21686 ‘Configure Dictionary view’ navigates to wrong field if it has a Subsense in an entry.
  • LT-21737 Configure Dictionary highlighting is not working correctly.
  • LT-21829 Lexical Relations no longer being restricted by Publications.
  • LT-21839 Unable to Paste in text due to Yellow box Error.
  • LT-21955 Remove Display in Paragraph configuration on normal note fields.
  • LT-21963 Copy ms localization to zlm for standard Malay.
  • LT-22008 Some ELAN flextext files cannot be loaded into Flex.

New features in the parser:

  • LT-21898 Allow Phonological Features to be specified on RHS of Affix Process Rule.
  • LT-21911 Create Novel Root Guesser.
  • LT-21728 Improve order of suggested parses in interlinear view.
  • LT-21756 Add Parser Test Reports capabilities for the parsers.

Parser related:

  • LT-18682 In the Hermit Crab parser, add parentheses around phonemes in the “Try a word” parsing details.
  • LT-20849 Words cut off in RTL baseline view.
  • LT-20850 Ad hoc query add dialog with RTL WS hides text.
  • LT-20852 Nothing showing in Insert Morpheme Breaks textbox for RTL WS.
  • LT-21584 The Grammatical Info window in the Lexicon-Entry screen is too small.
  • LT-21689 Texts are partially visible under the ‘Occurrence’ column when sorted by ‘Sorted From End’ option.
  • LT-21700 Crash occurred in the Lexeme Form Environments field after copying/pasting a value from the Allomorph Environments.
  • LT-21864 Undo crash in Allomorph – “Affix Process Rule” field.
  • LT-21934 FLEx freezes when clicking “Close” on Try a Word if parse hasn’t completed.
  • LT-21956 Crash while selecting ‘Select All (Ctrl+A)’ in the ‘Affix Processor Rule’ result field.
  • LT-21971 Crash adding a Feature Set under certain circumstances.
  • LT-21783 Stem Name field shows nothing in Browse view.
  • LT-21966 Inflection features not showing correctly in browse column.
  • LT-21883, LT-18677, LT-20753, LT-20314 “NotOnClitics” option unchecked runs phonological rules twice.
  • LT-21939 Hermit Crab reporting a null object reference.
  • LT-20175, LT-21967, LT-21969 Error results when using “Try A Word”.
  • LT-21088, LT-22011 Crashes or yellow box related to moving slots in templates.
  • LT-21974 Forced to click the “Phonemes” link(Insert option) twice to get “Choose Phoneme” dialog box.
  • LT-21653 After creating a new project, the title header in the Texts & Words View is displayed as “No Record”.

Webonary and media files:

  • LT-21470 Creator name is squished when its long in the Picture Properties dialog.
  • LT-21706 Modify UX for upload to Webonary and restrict upload of images without license info.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21887 Crash sending non-.wav files to Webonary.
  • LT-21933 Picture thumbnail is not showing in configuration dictionary dialog.

Changes in version 9.2.5 that only affect users of the Alpha versions (9.2.1 – 9.2.4)

General Issues:

  • LT-21896 Ctrl + J in interlinear texts now gets stuck on Free Translation line.
  • LT-21965 Linking words in interlinear is broken in FW9.2.
  • LT-21980 Crash changing or modifying the grammatical info of a suffix.
  • LT-21998, LT-21979 Crash occurs while performing Morphemes.

Dictionary export to Word:

  • LT-21882 Various issues in the Webonary export due to the work on Word export.
  • LT-21918 Newline symbol A printed in output.
  • LT-21982 Remove spaces in Between/After fields of all Pictures nodes in Dict. Config.
  • LT-21673 Implement Bidirectional text handling in Word Export.
  • LT-21768 Implement Custom Bullets and Numbering in Word Export..
  • LT-21891 Word Export should use common double-column format and add guidewords.
  • LT-21942 Fix error exporting Word document from the latest Alpha.
  • LT-21968 Use current version of Word during export.
  • LT-22017 Word export inserts extra spacing with 0embedded styles.
  • LT-21997 Pictures in wrong location in Word export.
  • LT-22006 RTL not working right with double columns in Word dictionary export.

Changes in version 9.2.4

  • LT-8297 Add ability to reorder fields in detail view.
  • LT-20588 Fix crash in “Affix Process Rule” when clicking on “Column” insert option.
  • LT-21585 Fix Hermit Crab Parsing Error yellow box crash.
  • LT-21694 Refactor the WordFragmentWriter class to handle adding runs and styles.
  • LT-21770 Handle formatting items specified by multiple styles.
  • LT-21839 Fix yellow box error blocking pasting in texts.
  • LT-21846 Fix yellow highlighter for some words that have more than one analysis.
  • LT-21886 Fix crash when deleting phoneme from left side of an affix rule.
  • LT-21888 Phoneme/Boundary marker’s “Refer to” can be deleted when editing rules.
  • LT-21890 Fix crash deleting from right side of affix process rule.
  • LT-21892 Fix “NotOnClitics” box when parsing.
  • LT-21894 Make Import Phonology command only available in Grammar area.
  • LT-21937 Fix bad footnotes in conceptual intro document.

Changes in version 9.2.3

  • LT-21672 Implement Table Generation in Word Export.
  • LT-21674 Export all Before/After content as content using the Dictionary-Context style.
  • LT-21701 Fix the “Find” button in Dictionary view which has been broken since FW9.0.17.
  • LT-21705 Don’t delete any sound files that are still being used.
  • LT-21707 Create and use styles in the exported Word document.
  • LT-21708 Export embedded images with their captions in the Word Export.
  • LT-21751 Implement Writing System styles in Word export.
  • LT-21761 Handle “Display in Separate Paragraphs” option in Word export styles.
  • LT-21769 Handle “Based On” property for styles.
  • LT-21771 Implement generate grouping node in Word export.
  • LT-21778 Fix continuation styles to be compatible with image textframe styles in Word export.
  • LT-21824 Fix punctuation error in custom field name, even after removing punctuation.
  • LT-21830 Implement separate paragraphs in Word export.
  • LT-21835 Improve Parser Testbed UI.
  • LT-21840 Correct missing Before/Between/After text in lexical relations.
  • LT-21852 Fix import Phonology command mistakenly suggests an SFM file is needed for the import.
  • LT-21854 Fix Delete reports button which was not working properly and it led to crash.
  • LT-21855 Fix scrolling function in “Parse Test Reports”.
  • LT-21858 The ‘Parser test reports’ pane now highlights an accurate report.
  • LT-21859 Fix minor problems in parser test reports.
  • LT-21863 Add a comment field to Parser Test Reports.
  • LT-21865 Fix parser hanging on non-primary writing system.
  • LT-21868 Fix Run Tests should use wordforms with no. in corpus > 0.
  • LT-21869 Allow Run Tests report columns to expand.
  • LT-21872 Fix Import Phonology crashes in Grammar area.
  • LT-21894 Make Import Phonology command only available in Grammar area.
  • LT-21909 Add a hyphen in “Remove Parser approved analyses”.

Changes in version 9.2.2

  • LT-20849 Fix words cut off in RTL baseline views.
  • LT-21586 Export/Import Phonology.
  • LT-21708 In word export, fix caption character styles.
  • LT-21728 Improve order of suggested parses in interlinear view.
  • LT-21756 Add Parser Test Reports capabilities for the parsers.
  • LT-21788 Display inflection features for affixes.
  • LT-21807 Fix pictures in subentries in Word export.
  • LT-21816 Show primary lex entry for Inflectional variant.
  • LT-21823 Add more style support.
  • LT-21838 Improve refresh in dictionary view.
  • LT-21851 Fix crash when clicking on ‘Choose inflection features’ in the Bulk Edit Entries view.

Changes in version 9.2.1

  • LT-10373 Fix Try A Word crashes.
  • LT-19859 Update FLEx Chart XLingPap.
  • LT-21582 Pass variant inflection features to Hermit Crab.
  • LT-21611 XAmple now sees affix variants.
  • LT-21674 The before/after/between contents now uses the Dictionary-Context style.
  • LT-21702 Fix reversal failing on jump.
  • LT-21728 Parse Prioritizer.
  • LT-21771 Support indentation for groups in Word Export.
  • LT-21785 Add more style support.
  • LT-21786 Show Variant info for analysis chooser.
  • LT-21787 Fix hyperlink to another project.
  • LT-21797 Add missing highlights in analysis tab..
  • LT-21810 Fix yellow crash while parsing with “Default Parser(XAmple)” on capitalized word.
  • LT-21813 Fix problem of FLEx using CultureInfo correctly.
  • LT-21814 Proposed analysis improved to show on all words in text.
  • LT-21815 Fix Yellow backgrounds in focus boxes.
  • LT-21821 Fix links to other areas of project.
  • LT-21822 Display failed jump message when attempting to jump to an entry that has been deleted.

Changes in version 9.2.0 (since version 9.1.25)

  • Change parser to parse lowercase forms of uppercase words separately.
  • LT-20854 Fix baseline tab focus after returning from different area.
  • LT-21741 Adds a new xample64.dll file to improve efficiency.
  • LT-21776 Allow newly added vernacular writing systems to be analyzed.
  • LT-21728 Implement Parse Prioritizer in Interlinear.
  • LT-21713 Clear the error status during cold start retry.
  • LT-20853 Fix FocusBox word bundle elements’ order.
  • Throw a useful error message if the normalizer didn’t load.
  • LT-20855 Fix unlink button position for right to left.
  • LT-20228 Stop displaying cloud-api in the Upload to Webonary Dialog.
  • LT-21720 Persist the location of the Writing System Dlg.
  • LT-21634 Improve Style Generation.
  • LT-21424 Fix Approve undo issue, Fix ﾑApprove Throughout this Textﾒ for capitals, Check lowercase for parsing and ﾑTry a wordﾒ, Do lowercase matching for all occurrence indexes.
  • LT-21721 Fix regression that Enter should move to trans or note.
  • LT-21443 ﾑApprove Allﾒ ﾖ Fix Approve errors and mark as user-approved.
  • LT-21666 Default complex form type for phrase to N/A.
  • LT-21731 Submit possible fix to the root cause.
  • LT-21438 Webonary – generate entries before headings.
  • LT-21679 Make custom numbers work for more than 9 senses.
  • Added cmd capability to clone and open a project.
  • LT-21670 Use the CustomHomographNumbers for Sense Numbers.
  • LT-20890 Get SenseNumber styling working.
  • LT-21648 Add ﾓCaption (or Headword)ﾔ to Dictionary Config.
  • LT-21677 Use exact matching for lang tags.
  • LT-21668 Fix broken SFM import with rf.
  • Simplify styles when exporting dictionary content and add direct Word Export option.