tlReader Changelog

What's new in tlReader 14.1.0.3356 Beta

Mar 2, 2023
  • OpenAI AI/GPT (ChatGPT) Integration

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3338 Beta (Feb 22, 2023)

  • Support for Apple M1 and M2 (Apple Silicon) - new releases supporting
  • [Burgermenu] Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • [Burgermenu] Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3232 (Dec 25, 2022)

  • Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3215 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • Support for Apple M1 and M2 (Apple Silicon) - new releases supporting
  • [Burgermenu] Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • [Burgermenu] Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3212 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Support for Apple M1 and M2 (Apple Silicon) - new releases supporting
  • [Burgermenu] Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • [Burgermenu] Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3209 (Oct 10, 2022)

  • Support for Apple M1 and M2 (Apple Silicon) - new releases supporting
  • [Burgermenu] Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • [Burgermenu] Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 14.1.0.3198 (Aug 15, 2022)

  • Support for Apple M1 and M2 (Apple Silicon) - new releases supporting
  • [Burgermenu] Add Tree View config menu and Attributes and Tools Menu as submenus (this is the menu previously accessible by right-clicking on the "Attributes (F1)" tab)
  • [Burgermenu] Add more Preview Area shortcuts

New in tlReader 12.1.0.2883 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • [Hebrew] tlCorpus search result and right-click text-command submenus: If matching text contains Niqqud (נִקּוּד), add extra text-command submenu for same text but without Niqqud (e.g. נקוד).
  • [macOS] macOS Retina display support improvements

New in tlReader 12.1.0.2690 (May 22, 2020)

  • New Tree View right-click command "Add/Edit 'text' child (using dialog)" makes for friendlier editing in some situations than F1
  • New 64-bit versions of TLex and tlTerm and tlDatabase, on both Windows and macOS! (Catalina-ready)
  • [Preview] Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area: Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • [Filter (F5)] New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • [Entry List MRU] (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)
  • [Online Publishing Exporter] Four new publish export options in the 'File / Export online publishing' dialog

New in tlReader 12.1.0.2684 (May 17, 2020)

  • New Tree View right-click command "Add/Edit 'text' child (using dialog)" makes for friendlier editing in some situations than F1
  • New 64-bit versions of TLex and tlTerm and tlDatabase, on both Windows and macOS! (Catalina-ready)
  • [Preview] Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area: Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • [Filter (F5)] New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • [Entry List MRU] (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)
  • [Online Publishing Exporter] Four new publish export options in the 'File / Export online publishing' dialog (NB:
  • AudioTag [default 'true'] Indicates to export sounds using the newer HTML5 'audio' tag instead of the old img+JavaScript approach
  • AudioTagControls [default 'true'] Adds the play/pause etc. controls on the HTML5 control
  • AudioTagNoDownload [default 'true'] If 'AudioTag' option on, tries to hide the 'Download' option from the control
  • OverridePathSounds [Optional] This can be either an absolute URL for the path of the sound files, e.g.:
  • https://yourserver.com/sounds/
  • or a relative path on the Web server, e.g.:
  • /sounds/

New in tlReader 11.1.0.2664 (May 14, 2020)

  • [Preview] Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area: Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • [Filter (F5)] New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • [Entry List MRU] (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)

New in tlReader 11.1.0.2662 (May 9, 2020)

  • [Preview] Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area: Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • [Filter (F5)] New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • [Entry List MRU] (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)

New in tlReader 11.1.0.2653 (May 3, 2020)

  • Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area: Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)

New in tlReader 11.1.0.2650 (Mar 25, 2020)

  • Changes:
  • Popup menu for 'settings' button near top right of Preview Area:
  • Add new user-local toggle option 'Preview masked entries always' that, if enabled [default], shows a preview of 'what a masked-out entry *would* look like IF visible in that styleset' under the "Entry hidden/excluded by styleset mask (edition selection). Use F2 checkboxes (or F1 selection list) to edit edition selection. Use top right of Preview Area to change selected styleset/edition to view" message
  • [Filter (F5)]:
  • New filter "match node if 'is-empty'" (element node that has no child elements and no attribute values filled in)
  • New Tools/Options (or Mac Preferences) local user setting "/EditOptions/DisableAutoSortElements" allows you to turn off element auto-sorting
  • [Entry List MRU]:
  • (Most-Recently-Used Entries) List: Add double-click to force re-select of clicked entry (if already selected)

New in tlReader 10.1.0.2195 Alpha (Dec 10, 2018)

  • New Duplicate Finder helper tool
  • [Main Entry List] Entry List right-click menu: Add "Load tagged entries" command to force-load just the tagged set of entries, for e.g. ODBC etc.
  • [Tree View] Added new right-click menu commands to 'Collapse all children' and 'Expand all children'
  • [Sorting] New configurable sort methods significantly expand the available sort methods available in TLex: ICU local (region, variant) sorting, and ICU custom-rules-based sorting [alpha][Windows-only currently]
  • [alpha][Search Index] New option "/App" "UseBetaSearchIndex": Use new (~Aug 2018) search index functionality to speed up searches (this functionality is in development and still being tested - if you experience problems, please turn this OFF again) [May require restart of application]. This can significantly speed up searches in e.g. the Word/Excel Integration tool (or Multi-Document Smart-Search), but does make opening documents a bit slower as it generates a search index when you open your document. [Currently Windows-only]
  • [Filter (F5)] New filter conditions: Is-not-element (find element type nodes that are any but the selected type); IsFirstChildNode and IsLastChildNode (find nodes with no previous-sibling and no next-sibling respectively ... this is more likely to be useful when combined with other filter types using the 'node intersection'/'All on same node' option, e.g. you could do things like 'find senses with something other than a translation equivalent as the first child', etc.)
  • [Filter (F5)] New (error check) filter conditions: "[Ref-to-sense] Unknown cross-reference target sense ('UNKNOWN')" and "[Ref-to-entry] Unknown cross-reference target entry" (these 'shouldn't happen' under normal circumstances, but may in some cases)
  • New shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+Enter for 'Tag range' in entry list
  • [alpha] Linked-Mode: You can run Tlex or tlTerm and tlCorpus in a special 'linked mode' (launch it from the Tools menu in TLex/tlTerm by selecting 'Launch tlCorpus linked') where they can talk to one another, then you can do things like launch a tlCorpus search straight from TLex/tlTerm (e.g. via right-clicking in the Lemma List or Term List or Tree View, or from the Word/Excel integration popup etc.), or right-click on a word anywhere in the search results in tlCorpus and send it to TLex/tlTerm as a new entry, or right-click on a line in the tlCorpus search results and select to auto-add it to the selected sense or term as a usage example in TLex/tlTerm etc.
  • [Smart References] Add new output/display setting "Show x-ref sense numbers always even if all senses referenced" (from Preview Area toolbar 'config menu'): Show target sense numbers of cross-referenced senses always, even if only one target sense, or all visible target senses are referenced [Setting is saved local to computer, not in document] [Default: ON]
  • New optional 'color renderer' mode for search results. Can change color scheme. Also highlights primary/secondary-level sort words in bold (this can be toggled on/off). Can also toggle display of word before/after number. [beta]
  • Can now right-click on any word in search results (if using new 'renderer'); the right-click menu includes all common standard commands for the right-clicked word, e.g. launch new search, open Web search or Web Image search for the word, auto-insert into Word or Excel, copy to clipboard, etc. [beta/alpha]
  • Pause/Resume Search button
  • New Section Editor via 'Dictionary/Edit sections' menu (or 'Termbase/Edit sections' for tlTerm, or 'Database/Edit sections' for tlDatabase)
  • Small fixes for support for multi-section tlTerm documents
  • Various improvements/fixes to font usage stats, including better ability to find/fix missing fonts
  • New 'File/Compare/Merge as formatted output text' compare/merge based on formatted-output text of entries rather than data [beta]
  • [XSLT][beta] Can now optionally transform XML output with XSLT (for all three of the main XML exporters). Use a file named after the current styleset (but with .xslt extension) in the output folder (2nd or 3rd or further passes can be specified by adding "(2)", "(3)" etc. to the filename).
  • New exporter "File/Export/XML (tree / raw) as one file"
  • [tlCorpus] Web Crawler: New checkbox option to choose whether to download image files encountered while spidering
  • [Filter (F5)] 'Advanced filters' [Depth Filter] and [Nested Depth Filter] find nodes at a given depth/level (or nesting depth relative to same element type) [added ~2015]

New in tlReader 10.1.0.2127 / 10.1.0.2128 Beta (Jul 14, 2018)

  • Tentative new line of alpha test builds with more fixes for high-DPI fine-resolution displays (note, use 'View/HTML provider/CEF3' option)
  • New optional 'color renderer' mode for search results. Can change color scheme. Also highlights primary/secondary-level sort words in bold (this can be toggled on/off). Can also toggle display of word before/after number. [beta]
  • Can now right-click on any word in search results (if using new 'renderer'); the right-click menu includes all common standard commands for the right-clicked word, e.g. launch new search, open Web search or Web Image search for the word, auto-insert into Word or Excel, copy to clipboard, etc. [beta/alpha]
  • Pause/Resume Search button
  • New Section Editor via 'Dictionary/Edit sections' menu (or 'Termbase/Edit sections' for tlTerm, or 'Database/Edit sections' for tlDatabase)

New in tlReader 10.1.0.2117 (Jun 28, 2018)

  • Pause/Resume Search button

New in tlReader 10.1.0.2104 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • New Section Editor via 'Dictionary/Edit sections' menu (or 'Termbase/Edit sections' for tlTerm, or 'Database/Edit sections' for tlDatabase)

New in tlReader 10.1.0.2051 Beta (May 21, 2018)

  • Various improvements/fixes to font usage stats, including better ability to find/fix missing fonts
  • New 'File/Compare/Merge as formatted output text' compare/merge based on formatted-output text of entries rather than data [beta]
  • [XSLT][beta] Can now optionally transform XML output with XSLT (for all three of the main XML exporters). Use a file named after the current styleset (but with .xslt extension) in the output folder (2nd or 3rd or further passes can be specified by adding "(2)", "(3)" etc. to the filename).
  • New exporter "File/Export/XML (tree / raw) as one file"
  • [tlCorpus] Web Crawler: New checkbox option to choose whether to download image files encountered while spidering
  • [Filter (F5)] 'Advanced filters' [Depth Filter] and [Nested Depth Filter] find nodes at a given depth/level (or nesting depth relative to same element type) [added ~2015]

New in tlReader 10.1.0.1998 / 10.1.0.1999 Beta (Mar 19, 2018)

  • New "Tools/Install extensions" and "Tools/Show installed extensions"" commands to make it easier/user-friendly to install e.g. additional spellcheckers (and other types of plugins/extensions)

New in tlReader 10.1.0.1935 Beta (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Possible big new feature: New "File/Import/Generic XML mode" importer to open/view XML files that can open many more types of XML data than TLex/tlTerm/tlDatabase XML - paving the way for almost more of a sort XML viewer/editor - and laying further foundations of new XLIFF and TMX modes.

New in tlReader 10.1.0.1934 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • New "File/Import Excel" (directly import an Excel file - works functionally basically the same as 'Import CSV') [beta][Windows-only; may require Excel to be installed]
  • [TLex/tlTerm][beta] New: Open and view TMX and XLIFF files directly in new experimental 'TMX viewing mode' and 'XLIFF viewing mode'
  • "File/Import CSV" improvements

New in tlReader 10.1.0.1821 (Feb 2, 2018)

  • New command Window/Always on top

New in tlReader 10.1.0.1813 Beta (Jan 22, 2018)

  • [tlReader] New command Window/Always on top