WordSmith Tools Log
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Tool(s)
Latest Changes
Date
All
Version 3 launch
1/99, 3.00.00
All
Version 3 beta launch
12/98, 3.00.00
All
Windows NT printing bug fix
12/98, 2.00.39
WordList
Index computes Mutual Information (see screenshots)
12/98, 2.00.38
KeyWords, WordList
Find Files feature (see screenshots)
11/98, 2.00.36
All
BNC Sampler version created
11/98
All
bug fixes: statistics printing, nearest tag, Windows 3.x crash
11/98
WordList, Concord
index facility created
10/98
Concord
function to get say 150 entries at random
10/98
most
calculate numerical variables function includes cumulative
10/98
KeyWords
file-names in clump
9/98
Concord
clipboard copy reflects visible display
08/98
Controller
improved tag handling (selecting within your texts)
08/98
Controller
file selecting improvements (selecting parts of text files, sub-directory inclusion improved)
08/98
most
double sort and part-file sorting eg. in collocate list, detailed consistency list
06/98
Concord
shows full tag info (not just 5 characters)
05/98
Text Converter
incorporates renaming & file attribute changing
05/98
Text Converter
can process sub-directories too
05/98
Text Converter
improved BNC tag reformatting
05/98
most
compute your own numerical variables
04/98
most
improved sorting for many languages including ß/SS in German
02/98
WordList
match by template eg. *ing marks all words ending -ing.
02/98
Controller
save list of which text files contain specific tags
01/98
Viewer
handle HTML, SGML, XML & show tags separately
01/98
all
manual expanded & reformatted with table of contents & index
01/98
KeyWords
database: view source text files
12/97
WordList
lemma matching (automatic lemmatisation based on a text file)
12/97
All
version 2.0
11/97
Major Improvements of Version 2.0 since Version 1.0 launch (March 1996)
- More flexible layout, colour & typeface options in all displays
- Start button to help new users
- Toolbars
- Print Preview
- Stretchable Concordance lines
- Add notes to a Concordance
- Merge 2 Concordances
- Save user-defined part of Concordance
- Recompute collocates after zapping entries
- WordList reverse sorting (groups -ing, -ed etc.)
- WordList language-specific sorting (eg. Spanish ch separate from c)
- enhanced sorting of accented characters in WordList
- Viewer and Aligner combined into Viewer, with drag-and-drop, skimming and highlighting, plus some editing facilities
- KeyWords Clumping
- Help file updated
- "History List" of last files used saves your layout settings (eg. widths of columns)
The new setup program uses a new and more complete wshell.ini file; it renames any old one wshell.old.
When you're satisfied that the new version WordSmithTools is what you want, delete the previous version.
- Please note that this version has NOT been tested by Oxford University Press.
- If you have any problems running the suite in this version,do not contact OUP but me (Mike.Scott@liv.ac.uk).
- I try to keep up with suggestions but cannot promise to do so.
- Use your current registration to Update From Demo with this new version.
- MANUAL.DOC now included -- Word 6.0 format. You'll have it after installation.
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