WordSmith 8.0, 64 bit version

  • This version runs on Windows 7 and later.
  • 64bit software is generally faster, and it makes all the computer's memory available. Most computers have 16GB or more. (32bit software can only use 2GB at one time.)
  • Any WordSmith 8.0 registration code is valid for both the 32bit and 64bit versions.
  • You can run both on the same PC.

download current version here

previous builds

latest developments

8.0.0.205 (5 Jan)

  • Improvements to File Viewer search.
  • Minor tweeks and fixes.
  • Compute concordance on Index relationships now gets word 2 as context word to word 1.
  • Corpus annotation: abbreviations and text segments mark-up.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.204 (13 Dec)

  • Fixes for KWs Compute clusters, Concord collocate highlighting, 3-way sorting.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.203 (4 Dec)

  • Fix for Only If Containing and Part of Text function for tags.
  • WordList Index database tweaks and fixes.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.202 (25 Nov)

  • Fix for Find & Search function.
  • MInor tweaks and fixes.
  • Help on Colour categories improved.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.201 (23 Nov)

  • Improvements to Corpus Find function (Corpus Checker tool).
  • MInor tweaks and fixes.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.200 (3 Nov)

  • Compare 2 word lists function implemented in WordList.
  • Improvements to charts and band representation in relevance check.
  • MInor tweaks and fixes.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.199 (24 Sept)

  • Context view improvements.
  • New: relevance search-term tables
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.198 (17 Sept)

  • Print preview improvements.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.197 (10 Sept)

  • WordList index clusters fix.
  • File Utilities renaming improvements.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.196 (10 Sept)

  • New: corpus word count
  • WordList index fix.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.195 (2 Sept)

  • New: Field finder.
  • Changed Corpus Report format & export.
  • Collocation relationships with wildcards fixed.
  • Case sensitivity simplified.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.194 (25 Aug)

  • Improvements to Corpus Report format & export
  • Collocation relationships fuss
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.193 (22 Aug)

  • Installation fix
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.192 (18 Aug)

  • Text Converter fix
  • Tag colouring fix and explanation in Help
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.191 (15 Aug)

  • minor fixes
  • WordList index re-enabled.
  • improved logging.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.190 (21 July)

  • new Corpus Tidy feature
  • logging implemented.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.189 (14 June)

  • filenames display fix.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.188 (13 June)

  • Cluster display fix.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.187 (31 May)

  • Lemmatisation fixes.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.186 (12 May)

  • Enhanced collocate comparison procedure.
  • Fix of bugs: Detailed Consistency, and selected cells in grids looking empty.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.185 (6 May)

  • Fix of bug affecting Corpus Checker and File Utilities
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.184 (4 May)

  • File choosing window fix
  • Hidden files processing option
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.183 (24 April)

  • New: relevance charts
  • Improved Save As window.
  • Clipboard text fix
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.182 (15 April)

  • Filename view feature
  • Concord fixes
  • Keyword database view files fix.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.181 (5 April)

  • KWDB fixes, including FindFiles
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.180 (29 March)

  • KWDB fixes
  • New: Corpus Checker relevance breakdown
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.179 (22 March)

  • New: collocate comparing.
  • Concord line height fix.
  • KWDB back in action at last!
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.178 (21 March)

  • Concord search-words from file fix.
  • KWDB settings in Controller
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.177 (17 March)

  • Corpus Checker re-design.
  • Boilerplate focus on chunks or files
  • Other small fixes/tweaks eg. to search highlighting.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.176 (8 March)

  • Small fixes/tweaks, (blank line in WordList), Character Profiler, Text Converter.
  • new File-date and Percent format display functionality.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.175 (7 March)

  • Boilerplate text improvements.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.174 (1 March)

  • New: text similarity function.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.173 (24 Feb)

  • New: File Utilities header parsing.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.172 (19 Feb)

  • New: File Utilities date parsing.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.171 (18 Feb)

  • Fixes: tag exclusions, Text Converter filtering.
  • File duplicates feedback improvement.
  • Text Converter warns instead of saving a very small text file.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.170 (8 Feb)

  • Fix: duplicate file names clustering
  • New filename problems function in File Utilities.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.169 (8 Feb)

  • Fix: duplicate file contents and names
  • Text Converter functions fix.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.168 (2 Feb)

  • Speed improvements: duplicate file contents and names
  • WordList crash fix
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.167 (1 Feb)

  • Improvements: duplicate file contents and names
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.166 (27 Jan)

  • Fix: editing data
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.165 (25 Jan)

  • Fix: big scrolling problem
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.164 (24 Jan)

  • Fixes: Editing data. Improvements to feedback generally and duplicate contents search.
  • Concordance list save grown row heights.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.163 (23 Jan)

  • Fixes: Editing data, multi-word-units in Text Converter, lemma handling on request, Corpus Checker identifying duplicate contents or filenames.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.162 (13 Jan)

  • Fix: apostrophe handling.
  • Enhanced Character Profiling.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.161 (10 Jan)

  • Tag recording enhanced.
  • WordList sort on tags feature.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.160 (5 Jan)

  • Concord search fix re-fixed(!)for e.g. "my *book".
  • F11 function fixed.
  • Tag recording enhanced.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

8.0.0.159 (2 Jan)

  • Concord search fix for e.g. "my *book".
  • Minimal Pairs re-written more efficiently.
  • Lemmas handled in Compute Concordance.
  • Show joined items menu option.
  • Help system updates, see What's New

earlier changes

64 bit version improvements

  1. Enhanced source text view (Concord, KeyWords) with a plot to show instances.
  2. Better tag handling, ability to show tags in different ways including a preferred tag attribute.
  3. Sentence and other text breaks can be shown in Concord lines.
  4. Processes UTF8 text with few disadvantages while still preferring UTF16.
  5. Clean new visual styles and colours.
  6. Uses all the PC’s memory unlike 32 bit software.
  7. Enhanced accuracy in counts of sentences, paragraphs etc.
  8. More complete notes saved with each set of data.
  9. Better colour handling in export to RTF, Excel, etc.
  10. Fix to context word search using tags (problem in WS8-32bits)

 

 

 

fragment of concordance