2016 News
19 December 2016
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
9 December 2016
Check out the new Pathway product web site
The new Pathway product web site is available at software.sil.org/pathway. This site has a new look and feel as well as an easier way to find and download the latest version of the software, optional … read more
6 December 2016
Updated Phonology Assistant web site
Check out the new Phonology assistant web site. This brings Phonology Assistant in line with the SIL Product sites and will promote easier installation and use. Let me know if you have any suggestions… read more
6 December 2016
Release of Phonology Assistant 3.6.2
3.6.2 updates the dependencies and installer so that it uses the latest version of .net, NuGet and the SIL Palaso library. As such, it doesn’t change program functionality. Here is a list of the… read more
6 December 2016
Asheninka (a Syllable Parser) is a tool to explore using several different algorithms for parsing orthographic words into syllables. It can also insert discretionary hyphens in words. See http://softw… read more
30 November 2016
CSS Parser TD-4688 Akoose bullets are duplicated TD-4683 Remove Css Rules with errors using CssSimpler TD-4653 Move inline styles to CSS Common Code TD-4156 Reversal entry doesnot appear in linux pdf … read more
30 November 2016
Version 3.002 has added optimization in the build process which reduces some of the table sizes (mainly GPOS and GSUB) which also reduces the file sizes. This is important for web servers since speed … read more
4 November 2016
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
4 November 2016
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
4 November 2016
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
4 November 2016
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
19 September 2016
Version 3.001 fixes a bug that changes lower ASCII characters from being marks to spacing characters. In many apps, this bug caused these characters to be stripped of their spacing and resulted in a j… read more
27 June 2016
SIL’s Global Publishing Services now accepting XLingPaper
For those of you who might want to submit a manuscript to the Global Publishing Services department of SIL International, we are pleased to announce that they are now accepting manuscripts in both XLi… read more
24 June 2016
CSS Parser TD-4643 handle CssSimpler when multiple classes on an element TD-4653 Move inline styles to CSS TD-4672 Handle CSS sibling rules for writing system abbreviations TD-4681 Handle audio elemen… read more
7 June 2016
This release has support for the complete Myanmar blocks of The Unicode Standard version 9.0. The following are the additions and changes: Add mym2 OpenType support Support minority languages in OpenT… read more
6 June 2016
XLingPaper version 2.29.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow publisher style sheet … read more
18 April 2016
Spelling Restrictions Removed in Version 2.1
In response to User feedback, nearly all restrictions have been removed from the characters allowed in kin terms and in names. All characters in all UTF character sets are now legal, including hyphens… read more
18 April 2016
Features Added for Version 2.0
As requested by field workers, SILKin now can handle adoption, clans, and other non-genealogical relationships. To make this as versatile as possible, we have added User Defined Properties (UDPs) that… read more
18 April 2016
Users may now create as many charts as they want for a single Context. There is still only one database of people and families, but the population can be spread over any number of charts. This keeps c… read more
18 April 2016
A snap-to-grid option has been added to chart drawing. It is activated by default. When the User creates a new person or family on a Family Tree chart, their symbol “snaps” to the nearest … read more
13 April 2016
We are pleased to announce the release of the Harmattan font version 1.001. It is available for download here: Download Harmattan Changes in this version: Changed internal font names Changed space of … read more
24 March 2016
Glyssen Beta Version 0.10 Released!
We’re proud to announce Glyssen Beta version 0.10. Our prayer is that Glyssen will serve language communities by providing audio Scriptures more quickly and accurately. Features available in Bet… read more
12 February 2016
The PAWS user interface is now in French. In addition the draft of a practical grammar can be output in French (as well as English and Spanish).… read more
4 February 2016
New version of LingTree: version 0.7.4
This version fixes a bug: The check box for the “Show ‘flat’ view of lexical and gloss items” parameter option is not retained in the configuration file so that the option is n… read more