{"id":1972,"date":"2016-12-15T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:29:03","slug":"fw830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/fw830\/","title":{"rendered":"FieldWorks 8.3.0 Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main focus of FieldWorks 8.3 has been improving the ability to configure your dictionary and publish it to the web.<\/p>\n<p>The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.3 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One-button publish to Webonary.<\/strong>  Once you have an account at webonary.org, it is now as easy as configuring your credentials, choosing what you want to publish, and clicking a button, to upload your data to Webonary.  To upload a newer version of your data, just click that button again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New version of the Configure Dictionary functionality,<\/strong> featuring:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>WYSIWYG dictionary previews.  Now the Dictionary view is showing you (nearly) exactly what you will see on Webonary.<\/li>\n<li>A preview pane right in the Configure Dictionary dialog.<\/li>\n<li>A highlight button so you can see what content is affected by the node you are configuring.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to enter Unicode values in the Before\/After boxes.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced ability to duplicate and rename nodes.<\/li>\n<li>All-around better reliability and consistency for all configuration nodes, and a foundation that will allow the developers to add features much more easily than was possible before this version.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced ability to manage custom configurations and link them to publications.<\/li>\n<li>Built-in shared configuration for some of the nodes.<\/li>\n<li>Separate nodes for Minor Entries that are Variants versus Complex Forms (and for Main Entries that are Complex Forms, in stem-based views).  (In the Alpha version, these need to be configured separately from each other and from the Main Entry.  In the future, it will be possible to indicate whether they should share another node\u2019s configuration or be configured separately.)<\/li>\n<li>Better connection between Reversal Indexes and Publications.<\/li>\n<li>Publication menu in Reversal Index view.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>New configuration possibilities:<\/strong><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Option for Senses to \u201cdisplay in separate paragraph\u201d allows choice of whether the option applies to the first sense or not.<\/li>\n<li>Subsenses can be configured separately from Senses.<\/li>\n<li>More choices for Sense and Subsense numbering.<\/li>\n<li>Examples can be displayed in separate paragraphs.<\/li>\n<li>Names of nodes in Reversal configuration have been adjusted.<\/li>\n<li>New default styles available to configure the reversal index differently from the main dictionary.<\/li>\n<li>New node \u201cGloss or Summary Definition\u201d, to more easily configure a reference that could point at either a Sense or an Entry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>Hybrid view:<\/strong> A new default configuration that is a cross between root-based and stem-based views. This view is based on the work of Bartholomew &amp; Schoenhals&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sil.org\/resources\/archives\/2384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bilingual Dictionaries for Indigenous Languages<\/a>1  Some of the key features of this layout include:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Information of greater interest to the language community comes first in the entry; information for academic linguists is last.<\/li>\n<li>Complex forms are presented as main entries (like stem-based views), but it also includes \u201cminor subentries\u201d, to show minimal information about the complex form right in the main entry (like root-based views). There is an emphasis on clearly delineating the different kinds of information in the entry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1Bartholomew, Doris A. and Louise C. Schoenhals, Bilingual Dictionaries for Indigenous Languages.  Instituto Ling\u00fc\u00edstico de Verano, M\u00e9xico, D.F., 1983.<br \/>\n<strong>Bugs fixed since 8.2.8<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-13041\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-13041<\/a> LT-13041 Variant Comments can now be viewed\/edited in Bulk Edit.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-17340\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-17340<\/a>  Option to attach audio files now includes .mp4.\n<\/li>\n<li>No longer necessary to \u201cInsert Reversal Index\u201d.  They automatically exist for all analysis languages.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-4443\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-4443<\/a>  Make Sense columns in Browse views show Subsenses along with Senses.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-17208\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-17208<\/a> Activate spell checking in Bulk Edit Reversal Entries.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-15989\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-15989<\/a> Don\u2019t print letter headings when dictionary is sorted on something other than the Headword.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-17385\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-17385<\/a> Fix a yellow box error when parsing with the XAmple parser and showing details.\n<\/li>\n<li>Various other parser fixes.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-14995\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-14995<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-14996\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-14996<\/a> Fix spacing in semantic domain worksheets.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-11388\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-11388<\/a> Fix writing system problem with \u201cFind Example Sentence\u201d in a vernacular writing system that isn\u2019t currently the primary one.\n<\/li>\n<li>Enhance the HTML export of interlinear texts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main focus of FieldWorks 8.3 has been improving the ability to configure your dictionary and publish it to the web. The primary new features in FieldWorks 8.3 are: One-button publish to Webonary. 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