What's new in Personal Lexicon 2.1
Mar 13, 2012
- With this new release of Personal Lexicon users are able to change fonts for lexical items, lexical types, and definitions using the Preferences dialog. It's handy for simply increasing font sizes so you can see text more easily. This can be particularly useful when working with intricate characters like those found in Chinese.
- The new release also checks for software updates periodically and has numerous bug fixes.
New in Personal Lexicon 2.0 (Jan 10, 2012)
- The Basic Listening Test plays audio for lexical items and asks you to type in the word or phrase that you hear.
- The Phonetically Similar Test shows you a list of words that sound the same and ask you to choose which one you hear.
- The Context Listening Test plays entire personal examples and asks you to fill the missing pieces.
- The Multiple Choice Test has an improved look with cool new buttons.
- The Usage Example Test centers its content when appropriate or left justifies it for long text that wraps.
- Each test can now handle long text, whether it's the answer or the question. These long pieces of text are fully visible without opening a larger window.
- Test Results are much easier to read and understand. Again, text wrapping is used so that there's no need to make the window extra big.
- Test defaults have been removed from the preferences. Now defaults are automatically saved every time you create a test. Personal Lexicon also remembers what type of test you last created.
New in Personal Lexicon 1.3.0 (Aug 6, 2011)
- Enhancements:
- Themes have been reworked so that they behave more like folders. They can be opened and closed to show or hide subthemes underneath.
- Themes can now be renamed.
- Themes can be created on the fly while editing a lexical item.
- The lexical item edit panel has been reworked so that adding themes or lexical item links don't require opening a dialog. Instead these links are made simply by typing text into the appropriate field. While typing, a suggestion window pops up allowing you to quickly choose the theme or item you want to link to. By eliminating the dialogs, the process to edit lexical items flows much more smoothly.
- Lexical items can now have multiple roots.
- Lexical items can be linked to items that don't exist yet. Roots, synonyms, antonyms, related, and phonetically similar fields can all contain undefined items as well as links to actual lexical items. This speeds up the construction of your lexicon quite a bit.
- Quickly create a new lexical item from an undefined item. Just right-click on it and select "Create Lexical Item" from the popup menu.
- You now have full control over the order that lexical items are linked. For example, synonyms for an item may be ordered depending on how strong a match each synonym is.
- When creating a new lexical item from scratch, the lexical type no longer defaults to the first possible selection.
- Choose from four actions when no lexicon is currently open.
- One option presented when no lexicon is open is the ability to download a starter lexicon. Connect to personal-lexicon.com or any other site to get your starter lexicon.
- Import or export CSV file.
- Updated documentation.
- Added balloon help to certain fields.
- Added predefined keyboards for the following Languages: Czech, Danish, Devanagari, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hirajana, Hungarian, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), Icelandic, Italian, Katakana, Korean, Latin, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
- Bug Fixes:
- Added a scrollbar for personal examples when editing a lexical item. Previously, one could not see personal examples if the window was too small and there were many examples.
- Fixed sort order of lexical items when printing them by theme.
- Fixed a bug editing virtual keyboards that sometimes caused the interface to stop responding after deleting the last row of keys.
- Trimmed extra spaces from lexical item text used in tests. This fixed a bug that sometimes caused excess spaces in test answers when an item contained comment blocks (characters in parentheses).
- Better choice for hyperlink text font.
New in Personal Lexicon 1.2 (Feb 18, 2010)
- Incorporates the keyboard builder, which allows users to create virtual keyboards that can be used to input special characters into your lexicon without relying on difficult-to-use operating system functions.
- Now, anything from accented latin letters to chinese characters can be inserted into your lexicon with the click of a button. Best of all, this upgrade is free for existing users.