PolyGlot: Language Construction Toolkit 3.5

[DraqueT]

Heyo, all! Welcome to version 3.5 of PolyGlot! This is a massive release! First, I want to give a huge shout out to TrapinchO over on GitHub, who gave an enormous amount of help with testing, and just has killer ideas in general! 3.5 includes a long list of upgrades and bug fixes. This also represents a significant step toward an Android release of PolyGlot, which has been much requested and a long time coming.

Among the most exciting upgrades are the complete integration of the Zompist word generator (algorithm and original design by Mark Rosenfelder there), a complete overhaul of how graphics are painted (no more CPU fans going nuts), a revamped lexicon look (local language synonyms now displayed in the list by their conword counterparts), automatic syllable composition when generating pronunciations, and many, many quality of life improvements (full list below). And that is on top of a ton of bug fixes!

Check Language upgrade

• Check Languge now automatically checks to see whether any characters unsupported by your current fonts are used in your language. Should be helpful to anyone using a custom script.

PDF printing now accepts/uses local language font

• Previously PDF printing did not read local lang fonts at all

If present, romanized forms of words will export to Excel

• Previously these values were ignored

Tooltips now automatically format in a way that is much nicer to look at

• Auto linebreaks added for better readability.

Font compatibility in PDF printing significantly improved

• Added in a library that can convert fonts to more readable formats when necessary.

Reworked printing of word class values to PDF

• Word classes now print more cleanly to PDF.

PolyGlot now handles the awfulness that is the Windows Fonts folder correctly

• It's this insane virtual folder unlike anything else I've seen in the Windows system.

Startup time reduced

• Added quite a few optimizations to make PolyGlot boot faster.

Upgraded combobox displays

• Now display the field label even when a value is selected, and if the value is a word, its localword equivalent is displayed next to choices

Dropdowns now filter as you begin to type

• If you select a combobox and begin typing, the displayed choices will filter based on matches

BIG update to core functionality to allow for development of Android app

• Y'all seem to want this like crazy. Getting there.

Upgraded to Java 17 - Long Term Home for PolyGlot (no more Java upgrades until next LTS)

• Won't matter much to most users.

New easter egg added.

• owo

BUGS FIXED

• Ligatures loaded initially, but failed to re-load from saved PolyGlot archive
• Broken multi-delete in conjugations menu fixed
• Graphical artifacting and "shadows" appeared sometimes in etymology window
• Excel import bugs corrected (false success report)
• Quickentry image insertion caused PolyGlot to freeze
• Quiz could make copies of the correct answer (with copies being "wrong")
• Local languge sizing failed to function properly in menus
• IPA Conversion tool converted text with HTML interspersed
• If no alphabet is defined at all, "check language" feature crashes program
• Under certain circumstances, text boxes could be mistakenly set to the conlang font
• Search menu populates font and size options from wrong place
• Hitting the filter button while is already applied did nothing
• Deletion of top level etymological parent caused unhandled exception
• Excel export applied conjugation transforms without regard to rules
• Excel export did not properly set conlang font on conjugated wordform cells
• Excel export sometimes printed empty tabs
• Deleting an internal etymological parent resized elements of the etymology window
• If you had too many word classes, it would break the autodeclension setup menu
• Deleting an entry in the phonemic orthography menu would also delete any entries with the same values
• Elements of the conjugation menu were failing to render in the appropriate font
• The grammar chapter section could become persistently wonky if multiple chapters without names were added in a row
• Fixed menus that could display user text but which did not use local language font (possible tofu characters)
• Part of speech dropdown on Lexicon did not respect font updates
• Old JSoup version had serious security bug. Upgraded to plug.
• Fixed various lexicon filter bugs

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This discussion was created from the release PolyGlot: Language Construction Toolkit 3.5.

[sTiKyt]

Just updated AUR package at:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/draquet-polyglot-bin/

[DraqueT]

Thank you! :D

[sTiKyt]

Thank you! :D

No, thank you ;D
this tool is only of it's kind as far as i was able to find, very good stuff