What's new in DimSum Chinese Tools 0.7.9.1
Sep 27, 2010
- Improved sound management. Download the sound file separately and record the directory in the sound manager (under Tools).
- Document statistics: total words and characters used in document
New in DimSum Chinese Tools 0.7.9 (Sep 27, 2010)
- New "character data pop-up window". Hold down the shift key while moving the mouse over a character to get detailed information about that specific character
- New vocabulary quiz. The flashcards have been moved up to be one of the main DimSum tabs. A new part of the flashcards is a vocabulary quiz where users can be shown Chinese, Pinyin and/or English, and then choose from a multiple-choice quiz of the correct matching Chinese, Pinyin and/or English. For even more difficulty, users can choose fill-in-the-blank instead of multiple choice
- New character searching options. Users can search for characters by their Cantonese pronunciation, total number of strokes, or the character's components. Click on a component in the component's field to look up all characters with that component.
- New help system. Now DimSum has extensive help files for the annotator, dictionary, flashcards, and supporting programs.
- New sound support. Thanks to pinyin sound files from Chinese-lessons.com, users can hear pinyin pronounced in the dictionary and flashcards. Click on "Enable Sound" from the Tools menu and follow the directions.
- New "append definitions" options. Append a vocabulary list to the end of a file, sorted by order of appearance in the document or by pinyin.
- New "Corrupt Chinese E-mail Fixer". I've added a version of the Chinese E-mail fixer to DimSum, available under the "Programs" menu. Actually, it should also work with corrupted Japanese and Korean e-mails.
- New encodings for Encoding detector. Now detects major Japanese and Korean encodings.
- Improved Chinese number handling. Now handles a much wider range of Chinese numbers and number types.
- New calligraphy paper printer. Print your own calligraphy practice paper. Available from Programs menu.
- Improved dictionary results. Now shows as many or as few results as were returned by the dictionary search. Results now have an indicator for how they are sorted (by Chinese, pinyin, English).
- New flashcard options. When using "delay" in flashcards, you can select with a check what fields will be shown first and what are shown after the delay.
- Lots and lots of bug fixes.
New in DimSum Chinese Tools 0.7.8 (Sep 27, 2010)
- Under Tools, now have option of creating an appendix of definitions for all words in text
- Flashcards now remember the last card viewed.
New in DimSum Chinese Tools 0.7.7 (Sep 27, 2010)
- Rewrote segmenter. Should be better (though not perfect) at finding words.
- Annotation now occurs automatically whenever the text changes.
- Simplified/Traditional character conversion now context-sensitive. Should improve quality.
- Added more stroke animations.
- Polished and cleaned up the user interface.
- Automatically checks for new fonts.
- Added much improved Find dialog.
- Created separate Preferences dialog, accessible under "Edit"
- Included option to automatically check for updates.
- Various bug fixes in file and web annotator.