Changelog

= Changelog =============== = The authors can be contacted at: [email protected] ===

Development Version: http://batterseapower.github.com/pinyin-toolkit/

Version 0.05 (05/06/2009) Max Bolingbroke <[email protected]>
Nick Cook <[email protected]> [http://www.n-line.co.uk]

• Large-scale re-write and optimisation of the code by Max Bolingbroke (many thanks!)
• ported KanjiGraph to Hanzigraph
• Automatic translation of non-dictionary words & phrase [can be used for almost any language]
• Add [limited] support for new CFDICT (French)
• All distributions will now include all dictionaries for simplicity. Unwanted dictionaries can be deleted.
• MW with pinyin added automatically to your deck if in dictionary (if enabled) only applies to English version
• Dictionary definition and measure word have their simplified/traditional variant selected according
  to user preferences
• Don’t generate audio tags if sounds are missing
• Use a fifth tone audio sample if one is provided, otherwise switch to 4th tone
• Try several file extensions when we need a bit of audio, using the order: .mp3, .ogg, .wav
• Optional entry-number indicators in translations such as “(1)” “(2)” “(3)”
• Internal refactoring of code to remove the incidence of unreliable string manipulations, leading to bugfixes:
  – Remove space at the end of colored pinyin
  – Remove spaces between punctuation in pinyin
  – Remove the space between erhua “r” suffix and main word in pinyin
  – Prevent loss of punctuation when colorizing hanzi
• erhua and third tone sandhi now handled properly
• line-index support and separator support added for dictionary lookup
• Squash bug that means character colorisation to fail if audio generation off
• Pinyin is recognised and colored anywhere in the text
• support for numbers has been greatly improved
• Added code testsuite
• Preferences window now used for config
• Many smaller modifications to improve usability
• Improved documentation & launch of website

Version 0.04 (19/05/2009) Nick Cook <[email protected]> [http://www.n-line.co.uk]

• Two versions are now being distributed: English (using CC-CEDICT) and German (using HanDeDict)
  – Thanks to Rainer Menes for suggesting use of HanDeDict
• New character colorization feature
  – If enabled, colored hanzi will be generated and placed in a field called “Color”
  – to get the benefit of this you should alter models in a way to make use of colored Hanzi
• Fix to give better handle the formatting of dictionary entries
  – customisable dictionary meaning separator (defaults to line break)
• more reliable sound tag generation
• automatic blanking feature if hanzi field is emptied and de-focused (makes input faster)
  – audio field is ignored if longer than 40 characters (i.e. if Anki has improved or recorded audio) [a better way to do this is in the works]
• strip html from expression field before doing anything (prevents formating bugs)
• several minor fixes and improvements to general usage

Version 0.03 (12/05/2009) Nick Cook <[email protected]> [http://www.n-line.co.uk]

• Simplified and traditional generation now happens each lookup (no need to chose one or the other)
• automatic English generation from dictionary
  – English will only be generated for exact matches (words) not phrases
• automatic colorization of pnyin by tone
• Text-to-speech feature (automatic auto generation)
• support for turning off new features
• tidy code (remove unused & rationalise messy bits)
• update dictionary to latest CC-CEDICT
  – fix bug from 谁 [actually bug is no longer relevant under new directory structure]
  – fix problems with pinyin generation of “v”/“u:”
• rearrange to more logical filenames (pinyinfetcher.py etc)
• change dictionary structure for better management, easier updates, and to allow new features
  – split dictionary into 3 parts (CC-CEDICT, supplementary, and user) [entries prioritised from latter to former]
  – supplementary dictionary contains previously hard-coded entries and new data such as numbers

Version 0.02.5 (21/03/2009) Nick Cook <[email protected]> [http://www.n-line.co.uk]

• Dictionary updated to use adapted version of CC-CEDICT
• entries increasing from 44,783 to 82,941

Version 0.02 (03/2009) Damien Elmes [http://ichi2.net/]

• Ported to Anki 0.9.9.6 and tidied up
• Brian Vaughan no longer maintaing plugin

Version 0.01 (2008) Brian Vaughan [http://brianvaughan.net]

• Original release

NOTE: Version 0.01 to 0.03 had version numbers assigned retroactively.