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Release Note (MLEditor 1.7 RC3 - March 6, 2009)

MLEditor 1.7 (March 2009)

1. [Major and comprehensive update: Professional English Case Conversion] The number of system libraries for proper nouns were expanded to three system libraries and three custom libraries, and there were in-depth expansion of entries and internal rules so as to make this system highly intelligent. Besides, there were many other bug fixes and improvements on this feature.

2. [Important new feature: character count, word count, paragraph count and line counts for English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese (text in edit area)] You can now count characters, words, paragraphs and lines - the same as in Microsoft Word - in File Properties. The key statistics have been meticulously polished to be identical to those by Microsoft Word. Now, even without Word installed on your computer, you can count with MLEditor characters (all/ANSI = file/text size), characters (all/supporting double-byte characters), characters (no spaces), characters (with spaces), words (all), words (single-byte characters), words (double-byte characters), paragraphs and lines. When the code language of the edit area is Simplified Chinese (GBK), the statistics are same as those by Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Word, while when the code language of the edit area is Traditional Chinese (Big5), the statistics are the same as those by Traditional Chinese version of Microsoft Word. You can also produce a report in pure text by the Text Report button after counting is complete. This function can also be called from under the Tools menu. Statistics for words in English and in Chinese are provided separately. If your text does not contain Chinese or other double-byte characters, the results are the same as those by an English Word.

3. [Important new feature: character count, word count, paragraph count and line count for English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese (for a text file or text files under a folder)] This is a brand new feature you can find from under the Tools menu. You can select a file or a folder on the disk. If you select a file, the file will be counted; if you select a folder, all text files in this folder (including those in all levels of its subfolders) will be counted. MLEditor will detect whether a file is a text file, and based on which, it counts text files and ignores non-text files. The report of statistics includes characters (all/ANSI = file/text size), characters (all/supporting double-byte characters), characters (no spaces), characters (with spaces), words (all), words (single-byte characters), words (double-byte characters), paragraphs and lines for each text file and, at last, their totals. Besides, the language version of each text file (Simplified Chinese - GBK, Traditional Chinese - Big5 and English) will be detected and attached. If a file is in Simplified Chinese or English, the statistics will be the same as those counted by Simplified Chinese version of Microsoft Word, while if a file is in Traditional Chinese, the statistics will be the same as those counted by Traditional Chinese version of Microsoft Word. Statistics for words in English and in Chinese are provided separately. If your text does not contain Chinese or other double-byte characters, the results are the same as those by an English Word.

4. [UI improvement: page cleaning macro] A page cleaning macro is now provided by MLEditor to clean articles in English. It can be called from within the Batch Replace dialog box. The macro can efficiently clean and reorganize messed text into clean text compatible with formal writing conventions in English. The titles and descriptions for this macro were in English only in previous versions. Now we set the page cleaning macro as system macro and place it at the first position on the macro list of the open batch replace macro popup menu. Besides, titles and descriptions for all UI languages are assigned for it. We hope the improvement can help MLEditor users to be aware of the existence of the handy macro and feel comfortable in understanding and using it.

5. [UI improvement: improvements on color settings] As most users are more comfortable with black text in white background, the default color scheme for the software has been changed to black text with white background for both edit areas. Besides, there were in-depth improvements on the Color dialog box. Now there are 4 templates for each edit area (so 8 in total for both areas). The first of the 4 is black text and white background; the second is the default color combination for previous versions of MLEditor for old users to choose from; the third and fourth can be customized. Users can click a color template to quickly assign color scheme to the upper or lower edit area. Besides, the color schemes on the two edit areas and the 8 templates can be copied/pasted from one to another freely.

6. [Important new feature: transparent, draggable main window] You can find this new feature from under the View menu. With this feature, you can set the transparency of the main window (from fully opaque to fully transparent), and can set the main window to be draggable (with a draggable window, except for the active interactive components such as menu bar, command buttons, and edit area(s) with text, you can press the left button of the mouse at any position of the other part of the window, including status bar, blank areas on a toolbar or a blank edit area to drag the main window freely around on the screen). With a semi-transparent window, you can monitor the working of other programs on the screen (such as watching a Flash movie on a video site, waiting for the response of some one while chatting on MSN), and reading or editing relevant text at the same time. This feature also helps you edit information one against another (such as writing down the text on an image) more conveniently. With the new draggability, you can drag MLEditor more conveniently.

7. [Function adding/improvement: Profile Management] Transparency and draggability were added to be part of the profile. Besides, to effectively make use of this new feature, a new system profile "Transparent Sticky Note" was add, which differs with the original "Sticky Note" in that it is a transparent, draggable sticky note. To fully use the text and background color of the lower edit area, the new sticky note uses the lower edit area as its edit area.

8. [Important function improvement: Find/Replace, Batch Replace] There were many important improvements on Find/Replace and Batch Replace. Some old and deeply hidden bugs were dug out and fixed.

9. [Improvements: glossary management wizards] Multiple revises and improvements on the three glossary management wizards - Sort Lines, (Operating) Redundant Lines and Chinese-English Glossary Management - Merge, Split, Swap. For example, progress data is shown on the title bar of the main window during large data operations. Some other minor improvements.

10. [Function update: improvement on Vista compatibility] Multiple compatibility updates for the Vista operating system.

11. [Documentation update] Updated documentation for all the features added or modified in the last one year.

12. [Other improvements] Many other documented or undocumented improvements.

MLEditor 1.6.1 (February 2008)

1. [Bug fix: Professional English Case Conversion] Fixed the bug that sometimes this function crashes on some system when adding a new proper noun.

MLEditor 1.6 (February 2008)

1. [Major function improvement: Oriental Language-English Glossary Management] Fixed the bug that sometimes this function crashes when the original entry is a pair from left to right. Besides, the program can now smoothly operate connected word pairs in the same line both in the source and the target glossary.

2. [UI improvement] Revised the English in program UI, document and web pages; other UI improvements.

3. Multiple other bug fixes, updates and improvements.

MLEditor 1.5.9 (December 2007)

1. Varies updates and improvements.

MLEditor 1.5.8 (December 2007)

1. [Major new function - Professional English Case Conversion] This tool can be launched from under the Tools menu. It can help your change the case of an English string or sentence for different purpose (ALL UPPER FORMAT, all lower format, Caption Format and Sentence format) with the cases of proper nouns considered. A typical example is:

    NOTE: THERE IS A MICROSOFT WINDOWS ON THE INTEL DOOR. THE WINDOWS IS UPDATING.

    note: there is a Microsoft Windows on the Intel door. the Windows is updating.

    Note: There Is a Microsoft Windows on the Intel Door. The Windows Is Updating.

    Note: There is a Microsoft Windows on the Intel door. The Windows is updating.

2. [UI improvement: added a button to adjust edit area proportion] Added a button on the lower toolbar to adjust edit area proportion. You can click it to open the "Proportion Between Edit Areas" dialog box. Then you can adjust the proportion swiftly and precisely with the Up/Down arrow keys or the Page Up/Page Down keys on your keyboard. When you are satisfied, press the "Return" key to confirm, or press the "Esc" key to cancel.

3. [UI improvement: added an accelerator key] Added an accelerator keys: Adjust Edit Area Proportion (Ctrl+L).

4. [Major function improvement: increased speed for UTF-8-related conversions] Previous versions of STGuru converted to/from UTF-8 slowly or even seemed to stuck when it was a large file or a large block of text. This issue was fixed in this version, and the conversion speed for big files/text is also fast.

5. [Major function improvement: find/replace/batch replace] In previous versions, Replace All in the find/replace dialog box worked slowly when the text size is huge. The function was optimized in this version, and operates fast except that you choose "Match whole word", which requires more time for its complexity. Multiple other updates on these two modules.

6. [Important new function: Batch Replace - Page Cleaning] An "English page cleaning" macro is included in the installation pack. You can use the pack in the drop-down menu by clicking the "Open" button in "Find/Replace" (dialog box) -> "Batch Replace" (dialog box). Running the page cleaning macro on an English page can help you clean and normalize punctuations, spaces, tabs, line breaks under standard language/page conventions promptly.

7. [Major function update: improvement on Vista compatibility] Multiple compatibility updates for the Vista operating system. Some were fixed, others, which cannot be fixed due to Vista's special nature, are prompted with instructions and alternatives when they appear.

8. [License change] Now we change our update policy to be free updated for 2 years.

9. [Updates: glossary management wizards] Multiple updates and improvements on the three glossary management wizards - Sort Lines, (Operating) Redundant Lines and Chinese-English Glossary Management - Merge, Split, Swap.

10. [UI modification: UI improvements] Multiple other revisions and improvements on the program's UI.

11. [Document/web page update] Document/web page updates.

12. [Updates: product updates] New version auto-detection and download is supported in our past versions. Now we change it into an option, so a user fond of and fairly experienced in some specific version can keep using that specific version without being prompted day and day to update when a newer version is available. Fixed the bug that sometimes the Download Now button is not enabled properly.

13. Multiple other bug fixes, updates and improvements.

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