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FieldWorks 7.2.4 is the new Stable Release of FieldWorks.

What’s New?
In FieldWorks 7.2, enhancements were focused in the Texts and Words area. In FieldWorks 7.1, improvements were made in Configure Dictionary options, and related Lexicon fields, as well as to lexical data exchange using LIFTBridge.

Adapt It WX version 6.2.1 is now available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Version 6.2.1 release 1 May 2012
Feature changes and new features in 6.2.1

* The “Setup Collaboration” dialog now detects situations in which both Paratext and Bibledit are installed on the same computer, and allows the administrator to select the preferred Scripture editor for collaboration with Adapt It. The selected editor is remembered from session to session. This change is in preparation for the future release of Paratext for Linux (running as a .NET application under mono).
* The read-only mode that can be selected by an advisor or consultant, previously allowed some changes to be made (but not saved) to the document being viewed in read-only mode. Any such appearance of changes being possible could potentially mislead some users to think such changes would actually be saved when that was not the case. Now Adapt It does not allow any changes to be made to the document by any means when the document is opened in read-only mode. Also fewer beeps now occur if the user attempts to make changes while in that mode.
* After reports that Unicode characters ZeroWidthNonJoiner \u200C and ZeroWidthJoiner \u200D are used as word-building characters in some languages in India, Adapt It’s parsing routine will no longer treat those characters as white space but will parse words containing them as units.
* Some of the HTML Help files have been updated to reflect the new features and feature changes in version 6. This is an ongoing effort and many of the HTML Help files have yet to be updated.
* Highlighting of auto-insertions done in non-contiguous parts of the document are now supported. The highlighting is preserved when scrolling. Clicking a highlighted cell does not remove the highlighting of other cells in the vicinity.

Bug fixes in 6.2.1

* The setup of collaboration between Adapt It and Paratext or Bibledit is now much more robust. Some users reported situations in which collaboration settings were not being remembered from session to session.
* If, when setting up collaboration with Paratext or Bibledit, the administrator does not create any books (with empty chapter and verse markers) in the Paratext/Bibledit project for storing target texts, an error message pops up. That message had a formatting error that could result in a confusing message that referenced the name of a different project than the project the administrator had designated as the one for storing target texts.  This message formatting error has now been fixed.
* In some instances punctuation was being copied from the the source text into empty target text locations throughout a document. This has been fixed.
* The list of most recently used (MRU) document files is now removed from the bottom of the File menu during collaboration since the loading of a document during collaboration should not be done via the MRU list, but only via the “Get Source Text from Paratext/Bibledit Project” dialog.
* Formerly, auto-insertions done up to the end of the document had their background highlighting lost; now it is retained.
* Adapt It would crash if during a File -> Restore Knowledge Base attempt in which some automatic punctuation editing was done during the restore operation and collaboration mode is currently turned on. This is now fixed. (When collaboration is on, the punctuation edits are ignored. If you want them not to be ignored, then turn off collaboration temporarily before doing File -> Restore Knowledge Base.)

Windows and Macintosh version 6.2.1 downloads are available at:

   http://adapt-it.org

Linux version 6.2.1 Debian packages are available for Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric and Precise (i386 and amd64) via the following Synaptic Package Manager (or Software Sources) repository settings:

   deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu lucid main      or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu maverick main   or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu natty main      or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu oneiric main    or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu precise main

Important Note: Installing version 6.2.1 will automatically replace any previously installed Adapt It WX (Unicode) version from 4.0.0 through 6.2.0 (but existing project data is not touched when installing updates).

Adapt It WX is the open source, cross-platform version of Adapt It that is based on the wxWidgets framework (hence the WX in the name).

Please direct feedback on the new version to developers@adapt-it.org which will forward your feedback to all of the following team members:

Bill Martin    - bill_martin@sil.org
Bruce Waters   - bruce_waters@sil.org
Graeme Costin  - adaptit@costincomputingservices.com.au (focus on
MacOSX)
Erik Brommers  - erik_brommers@sil.org
Kevin Bradford - kevin_bradford@sil.org
Michael Hore   - mike_hore@aapt.net.au
Bob Buss       - bob_buss@wycliffe.org (focus on HTML Help system)

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Pathway 1.1.2 release updates license and copyright dates, update headers to put first headword in left header, update e-pub table of contents, fixes padding additions and punctuation losses, and adds blank pages to front matter when need. Here is a detailed list of the changes:

• Common Code
  • TD-2939 Update copyright date on license
• InDesign
  • TD-2943 default export of Buang crashes
  • TD-2940 Change order of the Front Matter Elements
• Installer
  • TD-2767 Add data collection about user’s installation
• Open Office Writer
  • TD-2912 Left guide word to contain first entry on each page
  • TD-2937 Picture appears in the margin
  • TD-2913 Paratext export to LIbreOffice: Rectangles in place of some letters
  • TD-2935 Cover does not appear even though it is checked by default
  • TD-2942 Default Right Guide word wrong for Buang
  • TD-2922 Not able to have header guidewords appear at both ends of the header
  • TD-2944 Bughotu Scripture unformatted
  • TD-2947 Root based missing headers
  • TD-2949 headers missing from output
  • TD-2948 Pictures missing from output
  • TD-2965 Buang left guide words out of sync when pictures present
• Smart Device
  • TD-2946 Font-face rule requires quotes around source
  • TD-2957 Gondwana epub export has formatting issues
  • LT-12658 resolved, padding removed from css
• User Interface
  • TD-2871 fix pre-process not applied Allow separate preprocess for dictionary and scripture.
  • TD-2938 Title erased unnecessarily
  • Added Remove Cross References to Processing Options tab.
• XeTeX
  • TD-2934 Xetex: Apply Roman Page Number for Front Matter, Arabic for Contant Page
  • TD-2945 69 XeLaTeX unit test failures

Download Beta

Beta release FieldWorks 7.2.4 is now available for download.
Unfortunately we are unable to make a patch to this version due to a bug in the patching mechanism.

Review the What’s New section for a list of bug fixes. Most significant in this release is the fixing of serious bugs in Send/Receive LIFT (using LIFTBridge) between FLEx users.
If you are a LIFTBridge user, you must download a new version of LIFTBridge to use it with FieldWorks 7.2.4.

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Review the What’s New section for a list of user-reported bug fixes and some additional enhancements.

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Adapt It WX version 6.2.0 release date of 14 March 2012 is now available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux (including Balsa). Windows and Macintosh version 6.2.0 downloads are available from the Download page of this site: http://adapt-it.org/download Linux version 6.2.0 Debian packages are available for Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick and Natty and Oneiric (i386 and amd64) via the following Synaptic Package Manager (or Software Sources) repository settings: deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu lucid main      or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu maverick main   or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu natty main      or
deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu oneiric main Version 6.2.0 release 14 March 2012 Feature changes and new features in 6.2.0

• The setup for collaboration with Paratext or Bibledit is now possible for each individual Adapt It project. This means that an administrator can now setup different collaboration scenarios for each Adapt It project, and collaboration settings are therefore now located in the project configuration files.
• The user now decides whether to turn collaboration on or off for a given Adapt It project, which means a user can do work on a collaboration project with Paratext or Bibledit, and in the same session can turn collaboration off and do adaptation work on other texts that don’t exchange data with Paratext or Bibledit. When collaboration is on, only scripture books are selectable and all data is exchanged with Paratext or Bibledit. When collaboration is off only non-collaboration Adapt It documents are selectable.
• In the same dialog where the user can turn collaboration on or off for a given Adapt It project, there is now a third option that can be selected to enter a project in read-only mode. This is designed for advisors or consultants who may want to view the user’s work (documents produced by the user in either collaboration or non-collaboration mode) without risk of accidentally changing anything. The read-only mode is indicated by a pink colored background in Adapt It’s main window. It lasts only as long as the specified Adapt It project is open.
• The “Setup Paratext/Bibledit Collaboration” dialog has been reordered and simplified. An administrator can now configure multiple Adapt It projects for collaboration without leaving the setup dialog.
• For collaboration work with Paratext or Bibledit, the “Get Chapter Only” and “Get Whole Book” radio button selections have been moved from the “Get Source Text from Paratext/Bibledit Project” dialog to the Administrator menu’s “Setup Paratext/Bibledit Collaboration” dialog, thus making the chapter vs. whole book selection an administrator choice rather than a user choice. This avoids potential data loss problems that could happen if a user alternated between chapter only and whole book collaboration while working in parts of the same book.
• Now each time Adapt It is started the “Select a Project” page of the Start Working Wizard will always appear and the user can select any Adapt It project that exists on the computer. If the user selects an Adapt It project that the administrator has configured for collaboration with Paratext or Bibledit, a dialog with the three choices (described above) appears in which the user can determine how that project will be opened. The choices are:

1. Work with my Paratext/Bibledit Scripture texts (Collaboration on)
2. Work with other Adapt It texts (Paratext/Bibledit texts not available: Collaboration off)
3. Read-only mode (All texts accessible but not editable – I’m an advisor or consultant)

• There is a “Tell me more about these options” button in the dialog that pops up a message explaining clearly what work can be done for a given choice. If the user selects an Adapt It project from the opening page of the Start Working Wizard which the administrator has not configured for collaboration with Paratext or Bibledit, the dialog presenting the three choices for entering that project will not appear, but the usual “Select a Document” wizard page appears as usual.
• When collaboration with Paratext or Bibledit is ON, the “Get Source Text from Paratext/Bibledit Project” dialog now displays more clearly to the user which Paratext/Bibledit projects and which Adapt It project are involved when collaboration mode is turned ON.
• The collaboration dialogs have been redesigned to fit better on small screens, including the Balsa system.
• For “Change Paratext/Bibledit Projects” button has been removed from the user’s collaboration dialog. Now that collaboration settings are tied to individual Adapt It projects, and the user can decide whether to work with collaboration ON of OFF after selecting a project, the button is no longer needed.
• Previously, when Define Sections By “Punctuation” was chosen, the automatic segmenting of text during Free Translation Mode would ignore punctuation if the punctuation resulted in text segments less than 5 words long. Now there is no minimum length and automatic text segmentation by punctuation may result in text segments as small as a single word. The “Lengthen” button can be used in such cases if the short segments result in free translations being elided with an ellipsis (“…”) in the display.
• In the book-chapter selection dialog during collaboration, the chapter details now report information about the status of free translations for the verses of the chapter as well as (corrected) information about the status of target text.
• If multiple instances of Adapt It are accidentally started by the same user, only the first instance is now allowed to run. If a user accidentally starts up a second instance of Adapt It (for example, due to a double-click on a launcher icon in Balsa that expects only a single click to start Adapt It) the second instance now automatically aborts, and the first instance of Adapt It comes to the front of any other desktop windows. Previously second instances of Adapt It would revert to read-only mode to prevent two Adapt It instances from trying to write to the same data files simultaneously. Some users however, reported that they were unable to save their data at times because they were unwittingly working in a second instance of Adapt It and were unaware that another instance was already running but hidden under other desktop windows. This feature change should eliminate any confusion by disallowing second instances of Adapt It from being run by the same user.
•  The Mode bar in the Adapt It main window can now be shown or hidden using the View > Mode Bar menu item. Whether hidden or shown, this new Mode Bar setting will be remembered from session to session.
• The state of the Tool bar and the Status bar (shown or hidden) is also remembered from session to session. By hiding the Tool bar, Status bar, and/or Mode bar, more text information can be made visible on small screens.
• The “Pack Document…” command now adds the source and target language names as prefixes on the packed document’s file name. This is to help distinguish the AI project which the packed document came from from packed document arising by packing within a different project, and then sending them all to a common folder. Formerly doing this would overwrite the packed document file from elsewhere if it was the same book and chapter. Now this cannot happen.
• Adapt It now has a “man page” for Linux users.
• The Linux Debian packages for Adapt It now recommend that the user also install a version of Bibledit-gtk that is greater than or equal to version 4.2.94 in order for Adapt It to be able to work in collaboration with Bibledit.
• The Free Translation feature has been changed slightly. Formerly, it did not store the value for which radio button, “Punctuation” or “Verse”, was turned on when creating new free translation sections. This meant that Adapt It had to algorithmically guess what the setting may have been, and sometimes it got it wrong – which would ‘flip’ the radio button values without warning. This ‘flip’ no longer happens, because now the radio button value is stored for each free translation section, and when the phrase box returns to a section, the original radio button setting is restored. The default setting for new sections is now decoupled from this mechanism – and remains unchanged so long as the user does not manually click one of the radio buttons to change the value.
• When USFM markers, or punctuation within a merger, has “medial” position, every time the phrase box returned to such a location, a Placement… dialog of some kind would open and the user would have to place the punctuation. The marker placement dialog appears only during an export. The redundant reopening of such placement dialogs becomes tedious, and made the user think his placements done at an earlier time had not “stuck”. This has been changed. The placement dialogs still show, but only once per location that is ambiguous for marker or punctuation location – and the results of the placement are then stored in the document and reused — provided the user does not type punctuation explicitly into the phrase box. Typing explicit punctuation clears the memory of former placements for that location in the document. There is also on the Edit menu a new command which, if enabled, causes the local storage of the former placements to be cleared; that will cause the placement dialog(s) to open again at that location, for a new placement to be done, which will be automatically stored.
• The Linux Debian packages for Adapt It now include a dependency on the libgnomeprintui (>= 2.0). Some users including Balsa users have reported print problems because their systems did not have libgnomeprintui installed.
• The parsing of input data to form individual words for adapting purposes has been extended. The legacy versions used just space, tab or newline as word-dividing indicators. Version 6.0.0 added non-breaking space, ‘word joiner’ (Ux2060) and any character in the range Ux2000 to Ux200D – which includes the zero-width and reduced-width spaces (actually this extension happened in 6.1.0, but we forgot to document it).

Bug fixes in 6.2.0

• Free Translations were not being saved to the Paratext or Bibledit project if the user made no other changes to the Adapt It document, and then exited the application using the X icon in the application’s title bar. This has been fixed.
• In Free Translation mode, the free translations were not showing on the screen properly when scrolling more than a screen full away from the current free translation segment. The free translations were there, but were not being displayed when scrolling and not moving the active location’s phrase box. The problem is now fixed.
• Automatic scrolling in free translation mode should now work better on small/narrow screens.
• In Free Translation Mode, and when Define Sections By “Verse”, in some situations, the setting could switch to defining sections by “Punctuation” and vice versa. This has now been fixed.
• In some circumstances changes made to texts during collaboration with Paratext/Bibledit were not being saved back to Paratext/Bibledit. This bug should now be fixed.
• In the book/chapter selection dialog during collaboration, the chapter details were not reporting correctly the verses which have no target text.
• In Edit Source Text mode, some edits were not being saved. This issue has been fixed.
• The fix that allowed Adapt It to run on computers with screen resolutions as small as 640 x 480 pixels was mistakenly left out of the last update, but is included in this 6.2.0 update.
• In the Linux version (Balsa) the “Change Bibledit Projects” dialog could become unresponsive. That has been fixed by removing both the button and the dialog, they are unneeded now.
• When collaborating with Bibledit on Linux the Open… and Save menu items were not being relabeled to indicate that Adapt It would get its source texts from Bibledit and transfer its target texts to Bibledit. This is now fixed.
• There was a parsing problem when [ and ] are not punctuation characters and an adaptation included a bracketed substring [sometext] — the parser would hang. This is now fixed.
• The selection of a cct table, or creating a new cct table, from the “Load Consistent Changes…” menu item on the Tools menu was not working properly in earlier 6.x.x versions. It is now fixed.
• The Portrait versus Landscape setting in Interlinear Text Exports was being ignored resulting in all such exports being produced in portrait. It is now possible to export Interlinear documents in Landscape orientation.
• A sequence of double and single closing quotes with a space between each, in the source text, was losing the spaces when copied to the adaptation. Now the spaces are preserved.
• The OK and Cancel buttons in the collaboration related dialogs were located in reversed order of the default arrangement for Windows. They are now in the default order arrangement.

Important Note: Installing version 6.2.0 will automatically replace any previously installed Adapt It WX (Unicode) version from 4.0.0 through 6.1.0 (but existing project data is not touched when installing updates).Adapt It WX is the open source, cross-platform version of Adapt It that is based on the wxWidgets framework (hence the WX in the name).Please direct feedback on the new version to (copying all team members): Bill Martin    – bill_martin@sil.org
Bruce Waters   – bruce_waters@sil.org
Graeme Costin  – adaptit@costincomputingservices.com.au (focus on MacOSX)
Erik Brommers  – erik_brommers@sil.org
Kevin Bradford – kevin_bradford@sil.org
Michael Hore   – mike_hore@aapt.net.au
Bob Buss       – bob_buss@wycliffe.org (focus on HTML Help system)

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Pathway 1.1.0 release adds YouVersion incremental printing and improves pre-processing. Here is a detailed list of the changes:

• Bootstrap
  • Add advanced page to control downloads.
• Common
  • TD-2080 Picture captions missing
  • TD-2311 English language
  • TD-2646 out of memory
  • TD-2767 Add data collection about user’s installation
  • TD-2865 Crash when using Pathway from TE or Paratext
  • TD-2867 Crash in Pathway Export: FileNotFountException
• Epub, InDesign, XeLaTex
  • TD-2806 improve handling of missing images
• InDesign
  • TD-2847 Front Matter
  • TD-2860 Implement Image in Cover page
• LibreOffice/OpenOffice
  • Add Table properties
  • TD-2758 Direction code for table is added
  • TD-2853 front matter – Insert Table of contents)
  • TD-2854 front matter – Include in Mirror page )
  • TD-2856 Reversal different when separate and when exported with the main dictionary
  • TD-2858 Align Cover Page Image to “Anchor to Page”)
  • TD-662 Rudimentary table formatting
• User Interface
  • Remove cross references from Scripture pre processing option
  • TD-2841 Add Pre-process list
  • TD-2861 check boxes for pre-Processing Options tab

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