What was new in 5.0?

5.0 (10 December 2007)

  • Corrected many bugs.
  • Display font sizes in points rather than pixels.

4.6.41 (9 December 2007)

  • Windows: corrected a bug that could cause listening experiments not to run when the directory path included non-ASCII characters; the same bug could (under comparable circumstances) cause scripted menu commands not to work.
  • Corrected a bug that could cause null bytes in data files when the text output encoding preference was try ISO Latin-1, then UTF-16.

4.6.40 (3 December 2007)

  • Corrected some minor bugs.

4.6.39 (1 December 2007)

  • Manual: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when viewing certain manual pages with pictures.
  • Scripting: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when a long string was used as an argument to a procedure.

4.6.38 (19 November 2007)

  • More extensive logistic regression.

4.6.37 (15 November 2007)

  • Object list shows numbers.
  • Macintosh: corrected saving of non-ASCII text settings.

4.6.36 (2 November 2007)

  • Sound and TextGrid windows: direct drawing of intensity, formants, pulses, and TextGrid.
  • Regular expressions: corrected handling of newlines on Windows.
  • Scripting: improved positioning of settings windows for script commands in editors on Windows.

4.6.35 (22 October 2007)

  • Windows and Linux: better positioning of form windows of editor scripts.
  • Macintosh: OTMulti learning window more compatible with non-ASCII characters.

4.6.34 (18 October 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in September that could cause Praat to crash when starting up if the user had explicitly made action commands visible or invisible in an earlier session.

4.6.33 (16 October 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in September that caused Praat to crash when a PointProcess window was opened without a Sound.
  • Macintosh: objects with non-ASCII names show up correctly in the list.

4.6.32 (14 October 2007)

  • Unicode support for names of objects.
  • Linux: first Unicode support (in window titles).
  • Windows scripting: corrected a bug that caused weird characters in Paste History.

4.6.31 (8 October 2007)

  • TextGrid window: made Save command available again for TextGrid windows without a sound.
  • Corrected a bug that caused binary Collection files with objects with names with non-ASCII characters to be unreadable.

4.6.30 (3 October 2007)

  • OTMulti: added an evaluate command in the Objects window, so that paced learning becomes scriptable.
  • Macintosh: worked around a feature of a system library that could cause Praat to crash when reading a Collection text file that contained objects with non-ASCII names.

4.6.29 (1 October 2007)

  • OT learning: leak and constraint in OTMulti.
  • Support for saving Table, TableOfReal, Strings, OTGrammar and OTMulti in Unicode.

4.6.28 (1 October 2007)

  • OT learning: positive constraint satisfactions in OTMulti tableaus.
  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when reading a non-UTF-8 text file when the Text reading preference had been set to UTF-8.

4.6.27 (29 September 2007)

  • Corrected redrawing of text with non-ASCII characters.

4.6.26 (29 September 2007)

  • Corrected reading of high UTF-8 codes.

4.6.25 (26 September 2007)

  • ExperimentMFC: can set font size for response buttons.

4.6.24 (24 September 2007)

  • Czech, Polish, Croatian, and Hungarian characters such as č ů ť ę ś ł ć ő (see Special symbols).
  • Some support for Hebrew characters such as א ב וּ (see Special symbols).

4.6.23 (22 September 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.13 that caused crashes in text handling (mainly on Linux).
  • Info commands in editors.

4.6.22 (17 September 2007)

  • Phonetic symbols: added the nonsyllabicity diacritic (a̯).
  • Macintosh: worked around a feature of a system library that could cause strange behaviour of forms in scripts with non-ASCII characters.

4.6.21 (5 September 2007)

  • Sound and TextGrid windows: direct drawing of selected sound to the picture window.

4.6.20 (2 September 2007)

  • Introduced direct drawing of spectrogram and pitch to the Praat picture window from Sound windows and TextGrid windows.
  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.13 by which Inspect did not show all data in a TextGrid.

4.6.19 (31 August 2007)

  • Macintosh: worked around a bug in a system library that caused Praat to crash (since version 4.6.13) when removing a boundary from a TextGrid interval in MacOS X 10.3 or earlier.

4.6.18 (28 August 2007)

  • Sound: Filter (formula): now works in the same way as the other filter commands (without adding an empty space at the end), and on stereo sounds.

4.6.17 (25 August 2007)

  • Windows: improved rotated text, also for copy-paste and printing.
  • Windows: phonetic characters on the screen now require the Charis SIL or Doulos SIL font.
  • Picture settings report (mainly for script writers).
  • Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when closing a manual page that had been read from a file.

4.6.16 (22 August 2007)

  • Macintosh: corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.13 that could cause Praat to crash when drawing a spectrogram in MacOS X 10.3 or earlier.

4.6.15 (21 August 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.14 that prevented the use of Helvetica in the Picture window.
  • Corrected a bug in Read Table from table file..., introduced in 4.6.13.

4.6.14 (20 August 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.13 that prevented any other font than Palatino in the Picture window.
  • Macintosh: corrected height of subscripts and superscripts (broken in 4.6.13).

4.6.13 (16 August 2007)

  • TextGrid: corrected reading of chronological files.
  • Macintosh: text looks better (and rotated text is now readable on Intel Macs).
  • Macintosh: phonetic characters on the screen now require the Charis SIL or Doulos SIL font.

4.6.12 (27 July 2007)

  • OTGrammar bug fix: leak and constraint plasticity correctly written into OTGrammar text files.

4.6.11 (25 July 2007)

  • OTGrammar: introduced constraint plasticity for slowing down or halting the speed with which constraints are reranked.
  • OTGrammar: introduced leak for implementing forgetful learning of correlations.
  • OTGrammar: positive constraint satisfactions are drawn as “+” in tableaus.

4.6.10 (22 July 2007)

  • Improved reading of UTF-16 data files.
  • Improved error messages when reading text files (line numbers are mentioned).
  • Table: Get group mean (Student t)....

4.6.09 (24 June 2007)

  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.07 that caused a crash when reading Collections.
  • Corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.07 that caused incorrect Open buttons in Inspect.
  • How come 4.6.07 introduced those bugs? Because of large changes in the Praat source code as a result of the transition to Unicode.

4.6.08 (22 June 2007)

  • Windows: worked around a “feature” of the C library that caused 3-byte line-breaks in the buttons file.
  • Windows: returned to smaller font in script window.
  • OT learning: corrected a bug in PositiveHG.

4.6.07 (20 June 2007)

  • Sound files: MP3 as LongSound (implemented by Erez Volk).
  • Scripting: Unicode support for strings and script window (Mac and Windows only).

4.6.06 (4 June 2007)

  • Script window: corrected a bug introduced in 4.6.05 that could cause incorrect symbols in saved files.

4.6.05 (2 June 2007)

  • Sound files: reading MP3 audio files (implemented by Erez Volk).

4.6.04 (29 May 2007)

  • OT learning: added decision strategy PositiveHG.

4.6.03 (24 May 2007)

  • Spectral slices have better names.

4.6.02 (17 May 2007)

  • Sound files: saving FLAC audio files (implemented by Erez Volk).

4.6.01 (16 May 2007)

  • Removed a bug that caused downsampling (and therefore formant measurements) to be incorrect for stereo sounds.

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