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scantune UPGRADES since 01/17/94
08/03/94 leading apostrophe's are gone from exceptions list.
08/03/94 STDICT.XXX FILES HAVE CHANGED TO SCDICT.XXX FILES. RENAME STDICT.SPL
SCDICT.SPL AND RENAME STDICT.NTX SCDICT.NTX
08/03/94 YOUR CHANGES ARE NOW SAVED UNDER THE ORIGINAL FILE NAME. THE FIRST
TIME THROUGH, YOUR ORIGINAL IS RENAMED WITH A .ORG EXTENSION. SUBSEQUENT
PASSES RENAME THEIR ORIGINALS WITH A .BAK EXTENSION.
08/03/94 PROGRAM NO LONGER CRASHES WHEN THE DICTIONARY IS MISSING
08/02/94 LEARN MODE NOW CLEANS UP THE .STP FILES
07/29/94 the ctrl-left and ctrl-right arrows now change screen colors when
text is being marked.
07/29/94 THE FILE REPORT INSIDE THE PROOFREADER NO LONGER REPORTS 0 PERCENT
OF ANYTHING.
07/28/94 THE DELETE AND MOVE BLOCKED TEXT OPTIONS ARE FIXED.
07/26/94 the macro editor save bug is fixed
07/25/94 MUCH FASTER NONTEXT CHARACTER REMOVAL
07/25/94 AUTOMATIC TAB EXPANSION ADDED
07/25/94 PROOFREADER NOW READS ALL THE WAY TO END OF FILE
07/22/94 HOT KEYS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE LEARN MODE EXCEPTIONS LIST.
ALT-I=IGNORE, ALT-V=VIEW/CORRECT, ALT-D=DICTIONARY, ALT-M=MACROS AND
ALT-Q=QUIT.
07/20/94 ALT-W REPEATS SPELLS AND SPELLS PHONETICALLY THE HIGHLIGHTED LIST
ENTRY IN LEARN MODE.
07/20/94 A MESSAGE NOW APPEARS WHEN YOU ESCAPE OUT OF THE ANALYSIS SECTION
OF LEARN MODE.
07/20/94 learn mode no longer deletes place marker
07/20/94 the bug in the alarm menu toggle is fixed
07/17/94 A "BOTH" OPTION ALLOWS YOU TO ADD A MACRO TO UNIVERSAL AND
TEMPORARY FILES AT THE SAME TIME.
07/15/94 NEW LEARN MODE ADDED
06/30/94 THE CTRL-PGDN BUG IS FIXED.
06/30/94 AN OPTIMIZING MESSAGE HAS BEEN ADDED WHEN MACROS ARE BEING LOADED.
06/28/94 THE PROBLEMS WITH ESCAPING FROM CLEANUP, REFORMATTING AND
DECOLUMNIZATION HAVE BEEN FIXED
06/21/94 THE EDITOR IS NOW DEFAULTED TO INSERT MODE
06/21/94 THE STRIP UNNECESSARY SPACES OPTION NOW STRIPS IMBEDED SPACES
MAKING
UNSPACE.FRD OBSOLETE.
06/21/94 textcon.frd was included to change hard crlf to soft cr and convert
spaces to tabs.
06/01/94 ALT-E FROM THE PROOF READER ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT THE CHUNK OF TEXT
IN MEMORY. CTRL-W SAVES ESC EXITS BACK TO PROOF READ.
06/01/94 LEFT/RIGHT ARROWS IN CONTINUOUS READ NO LONGER SKIP AS MUCH TEXT
05/30/94 cleanup now reports 100% complete and displays total changes.
05/30/94 the "flush temporary macro file" prompt now waits for a keypress
05/30/94 THE "PROOF READING" MESSAGES HAVE BEEN REMOVED
05/30/94 DEMO FILE SIZE LIMIT RAISED TO 50 K
05/30/94 PGUP AND PGDN MODIFIED TO WORK THE SAME AS OTHER EDITORS AND VIEWERS
05/21/94 SPELLCHECKER MARK WORD BUG FIXED SO IT DOESN'T GET STUCK WHEN A
MINIMUM WORD LINGTH LESS THAN THREE IS CHOSEN.
05/21/94 CONTEXT DISPLAYS IN CLEANUP AND SPELLCHECKER HAVE BEEN IMPROVED
TO PUT THE SUSPECTED WORD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DISPLAYED TEXT.
05/21/94 A "V" OPTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO PROMPTED CORRECTIONS TO ALLOW YOU
TO GET MORE CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION WHEN NEEDED
05/21/94 ESCAPE ENABLED IN (Y N R C Q) PROMPT
05/21/94 A CLICK SOUND HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE SPELLCHECKER, CLEAN UP AND
NON-TEXT CHARACTER REMOVAL PROCEDURES WHEN THE ALARM IS TURNED ON TO LET
YOU KNOW THEY'RE WORKING
05/19/94 A BUG IN THE R OPTION OF (Y N R C Q) HAS BEEN FIXED
05/19/94 THE "CLEARING THE LOADLIST" MESSAGE HAS BEEN REMOVED.
05/19/94 cleaned up exit screen
05/19/94 'execute' changed to "execute"in main menu message
05/19/94 the mark your place message is more visually obvious
05/19/94 the "will be deleted" message is more visually obvious
05/19/94 the enter replacement string prompts are more visually obvious
05/19/94 THE LOAD/CREATE SCREEN HAS BEEN CLEANED UP AND MESSAGES MADE MORE
VISUALLY OBVIOUS
05/19/94 THE MACRO FILES LOADED AND DUPLICATIONS SCREENS ARE MORE VISUALLY
OBVIOUS
05/19/94 A MAJOR REWRITE ON SCREEN PROMPTS HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN TO MAKE FR
TOOLS EASIER FOR SIGHTED PEOPLE TO USE.
05/19/94 THE PROOF RED THE DOCUMENT PROMPT FIXED TO CONSISTANTLY TALK
05/19/94 WHEN LOGGING SPELL CHECKING ACTIVITY, THE PHRASE "SUSPECTED WORD:"
NOW PRECEDES THE SUSPECTED WORD.
05/19/94 THE M KEY IS FIXED SO MARKS ARE VISUALLY OBVIOUS
05/11/94 OPTIONAL SAVE TEXT ADDED TO ESCAPE FROM SPELL CHECKER.
05/11/94 THE MAIN MENU HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.
05/11/94 THE MACROS MENU HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN AND THE
DESCRIPTION LINE IS NOW ON THE BOTTOM.
05/11/94 PROMPTED CORRECTIONS ARE NOW TWO LINES WITH THE PROMPTS ON THE BOTTOM
LINE.
05/11/94 MACROS WITH LEADING SPACES AND W EXECUTION INSTRUCTIONS ARE
AUTOMATICALLY FIXED
05/09/94 CTRL-G TAKES YOU BACK TO YOUR PLACE MARKER IN THE PROOF READER.
05/09/94 PROMPTED CORRECTIONS ARE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.
05/09/94 THE MACRO FILE NAMES THAT ARE LOADED ARE WRITTEN TO FR.LOG IF ENABLED
05/09/94 FR NOW FINDS AND REMOVES INVALID MACROS I.E. MACROS THAT AREN'T
COMPLETE AND THIS INFORMATION IS WRITTEN TO FR.LOG, IF ENABLED.
05/09/94 THE Y N R C Q PROMPTS ARE NOW HOT KEYS. NO ENTER REQUIRED.
04/30/94 hit c enter enter at a prompted correction to delete the search
string from the document.
04/27/94 remove place marker y/n prompt added
04/13/94 A C OPTION WAS ADDED TO PROMPTED CORRECTIONS TO ALLOW MANUAL
CORRECTIONS.
04/10/94 THE SEARCH BUGS FOR LEADING SPACES AND CARROTS IS FIXED
04/02/94 ESCAPE NOW EXITS YOU FROM CLEANUP, REFORMAT, NONTEXT REMOVAL AND
DECOLUMNIZATION
03/15/94 THE HELP SYSTEM IS NOW ON-LINE!
03/14/94 YOU CAN NOW TURN THE ALARM ON AND OFF FROM THE MAIN MENU.
03/13/94 The manual frtools.man is in final form. I invite your comments.
03/13/94 YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO WAIT ALL DAY AFTER DELETING FROM A DICTIONARY.
03/12/94 the q option in prompted corrections is fixed
03/12/94 the customized help system is now working. hit alt-f10 to
create your own help screens, if you don't like ours.
03/05/94 THE SCREEN COLORS WORK PROPERLY WHEN BLOCKING TEST
03/05/94 IF PROMPTING IS ON, THE SENTENCES ARE NOW BEING WRITTEN EXACTLY
AS THEY APPEAR IN THE FILE. THIS WILL CAUSE SOME SHORT BEGINNING LINES WHEN
THE SENTENCE STARTS NEAR THE RIGHT MARGIN IN THE ORIGINAL FILE. THIS WAS
DO SO YOU CAN ADD SENTENCE FRAGMENTS TO MACRO FILES AND HAVE THEM WORK.
03/05/94 THE ALARM HAS BEEN SHORTENED.
03/04/94 you should be able to put the fr program and data files in any
dirrectory you want. The qtils subdirectory is no longer necessary.
03/01/94 A /Z SWITCH HAS BEEN ADDED THAT FORCES PROMPTED CORRECTIONS
03/01/94 the s for suggested spellings is now a hot key.
03/01/94 the load/create list has been changed. f10 now saves and exits
and escape exits and restores the old loadlist.
03/01/94 When you select a macro in load/create, the lightbar moves down to
the next item instead of popping to the top of the list.
03/01/94 load/create now informs you that the load list is cleared to start
with.
03/01/94 THE ERATIC BEHAVIOR OF THE R KEY IS FIXED IN THE SPELL CHECKER.
03/01/94 an alarm has been added to let you know when fr's current operations
are concluded. Hit any key to stop it and return to the main menu.
02/26/94 the documentation file is now named frtools.man
02/26/94 the verbosity of the spell checker context prompt has been reduced.
02/26/94 you can now open and close the log from the spell checker menu.
02/26/94 THE ERATIC BEHAVIOR ON EXITING THE SPELL CHECKER IS UNDER CONTROL.
02/26/94 PROMPTING IS NOW DEFAULTED OFF IN SPELL CHECKER.
02/26/94 a 2-second delay has been inserted after a word is spelled or
spoken phonetically in the spell checker
02/26/94 IN ORDER TO CUT DOWN ON DOWNLOAD TIME AND SAVE YOU BETA TESTERS
MONEY ON YOUR PHONE BILLS, I have decided to delete the drdict.spl file
from fr00.zip. the 10,000 word dictionary isn't very useful anyway and
it's getting in the way. Be sure to pick up a copy of dict50.zip or
dict125.zip, if you're going to test the spell checker.
02/24/94 The D (display sentence), I (ignore word) and R (repeat word)
keys work in the spell checker without having to hit the enter key.
02/24/94 the random displaying of "ald" and "gs" in the suggested
spellings option is fixed, I hope.
02/24/94 the suggested spellings list has been expanded to six words.
02/22/94 THE MACRO FILES LIST HAS BEEN FIXED SO THE TEMPORARY MACRO FILE
NAME DOES NOT APPEAR TWICE.
02/22/94 THE "MULTIPLE" OPTION IS GONE FROM THE MACROS MENU AND ITS FUNCTIONS
HAVE BEEN TELESCOPED INTO "LOAD/CREATE"
02/22/94 THE CLEANUP AND SPELL CHECK OPTIONS HAVE BEEN SWAPPED ON THE
MAIN MENU.
02/22/94 WE HAVE GONE TO 6 SUGGESTED SPELLINGS.
02/21/94 the bug that doesn't allow the loading of para.frd is fixed
02/21/94 If you hit R in the proof reader, the current word is repeated,
spelled and spoken phonetically.
02/21/94 The reformatter and decolumnizer now report per cent complete
instead of line numbers.
02/21/94 the quit spell checking option now displays appropriate messages
02/21/94 THE MAIN MENU SHOULD NO LONGER BABBLE
02/19/94 the spell checker now gives you a list of suggested spellings.
02/14/94 there is now a /U switch which puts fr in to unattended spell
checking mode from the command line or a batch file. Prompting is on and
the log is opened when this switch is used.
02/18/94 the start and end times for cleanup and spell checking are written
to the log if it is open.
02/18/94 words like "couldn't" are now handled properly by the spell checker
02/17/94 THE MARKED OPTIONS SPEAK THEIR STATUS BEFORE THE LIGHT BAR MOVES
DOWN TO THE NEXT OPTION
02/17/94 THE "A" KEY NOW WORKS IN THE SPELLCHECKER MENU
02/17/94 CLEANED UP REPETATIVE PROMPTS IN LOG AND SPELL CHECKER
02/17/94 THE "ATTENDED" OPTION IS CHANGED TO "UNATTENDED"
02/17/94 THE "LEAVE WORD UNCHANGED" PROMPT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO "IGNORE WORD"
IN THE SPELL CHECKER MENU
02/17/94 WHEN EXITING THE SPELL CHECKER, THE MENU HIGHLIGHT MOVES TO
"PROOFREAD THE DOCUMENT"
02/17/94 the intermitent failure of the temporary macro file is fixed,
I hope.
02/16/94 Documentation upgraded to reflect most of the changes in operation.
02/16/94 THE "DO YOU WANT FULL SENTENCE PROMPTING MESSAGE IS GONE AND
PROMPTING IS DEFAULTED ON in the spell checker.
02/16/94 The spell checker is marking and returning to its place properly
02/16/94 if logging is on the spell checker logs misspelled words. If
prompting is on, the sentence appears below the misspelled word in the log.
02/16/94 the optimize procedure works properly.
02/16/94 the file spellchk is now being erased properly
02/15/94 options have been added to the spell checker menu that allow you
to repeat the questioned word. successive selections of the option spell
the word and speak it phonetically.
02/15/94 The log file now appends operations properly.
02/15/94 if fr finds the log file at bootup, it prompts user to delete it
02/14/94 An unattended mode has been added to the spell checker. It marks
each questioned word with two accent marks (``). If the log is open, the
questioned words will be written to it. To resume normal spell checking,
hit alt-right bracket.
02/14/94 the prompt on/off option now accurately reflects the state of the
toggle.
02/14/94 cleanup and spell check no longer prompt you do begin at place marker
if no mark was set.
02/14/94 lower case w is working properly again.
02/14/94 working files are being deleted properly when the source file does
not exist.
02/12/94 AN OPTIMIZE OPTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE MACROS MENU THAT REMOVES
DUPLICATIONS, ENTRIES THAT CANCEL EACH OTHER AND ENTRIES WHERE THE SEARCH AND
REPLACE SIDES ARE EQUAL.
02/12/94 THE SPELL CHECKER OPTION HAS BEEN MOVED TO JUST BELOW PROOF READ
ON THE MAIN MENU.
02/11/94 escape key exits the spell checker even while searching.
02/11/94 fr now asks if you want to mark your place when exiting proof read
or spell check
02/10/94 You no longer need to hit enter at the "prompt before correcting
(y/n)" prompt.
02/09/94 Fr now has a spell checker built in. It's on the main menu
between word wrap and macros. It is an immediate option. When you
enter the spell checker, you are prompted for the minimum word length to
check. The default is 3. Words shorter than the minimum length are
ignored. This allows you to vary the rigorousness with which the system
checks words.
You are next asked if you want full sentence prompting. If you hit "Y",
the sentence containing the word in question is displayed. If you hit "N",
only the word in question appears at the top left corner of the screen.
After the dictionary loads you will be prompted "begin spell checking at
place marker (y/n). If you hit "Y", spell checking begins where you
last stopped proof reading. Any other key begins at top of file.The
system checks each word against the dictionary and the currently loaded
macro files. If it is not found, the word is displayed and a menu of
options appears.Each option is explained below.
ADD WORD TO DICTIONARY
This option adds the word to the spell checker's dictionary.
ADD WORD TO MACRO FILE
When this option is chosen you will be prompted for a replacement string
etc, as you are in the proof reader.
CORRECT MANUALLY
This option allows you to replace the word from the keyboard.
LEAVE WORD UNCHANGED
This option causes the spell checker to skip the word whenever it is
encountered.
MARK WORD
This option places two accent marks (``) in the text before the word.
You can then use the proofreader's search features to locate the word
after spell checking is completed.
PROMPTS ON
This is a toggle. When it is on, the sentence in which the word occurs
is displayed. When it is turned off, only the word in question is
shown.
MAINTAIN DICTIONARY
This option allows you to add or delete words from the dictionary. You will
be prompted: "add, delete, quit". After selecting, you will be prompted for
the word to add or delete. Type it in and hit enter. The word will be
added or deleted and the "add, delete, quit" prompt reappears.
QUIT THE SPELL CHECKER
This option quits the spell checker saving all changes to the designated
target file.
02/09/94 The current temporary macro file has been added to the macro files
list SO YOU CAN LOAD IT FROM THE MULTIPLE OPTION IN THE MACROS MENU.
02/08/94 When cleanup reports the percent complete it now also reports the
number of changes made so far.
02/08/94 fr now tells you what macro files it is loading for cleanup.
This may help us track down the elusive randomness in the temporary
macro file.
02/08/94 you don't get the flush temporary prompt if the temporary for
that document isn't loaded
02/08/94 The main menu is fixed so that when you hit enter on a marked
option the option is toggled and you move down to the next one
02/07/94 A new macro file has been added to fr00.zip. It's called
ob.frd and is designed for use on scans made by An Open Book.
02/07/94 the macro files pick list no longer displays the .frd extension
at the end of every line.
02/07/94 the macro files now support prompted corrections for words only.
When you add an entry you are prompted "all, words only, cancel entry".
Hit a, w or c. You will then see a new prompt saying:
"prompt before correcting (y/n) n". Hit Y or N and hit enter. The default
is "N". This enables you to avoid the "system systern mixup.
For those of you who enjoy creating macro files from text editors, the |P
execution instruction is gone and the "A" and "W" instructions are now case
sensitive. Lower case a and w cause prompting before correction.
02/05/94 a main menu option has been added so you can log changes to disk.
duplications, if any, and all changes are written to c:\qtils\fr.log.
02/05/94 THE FORWARD SEARCHES ARE FIXED SO THEY DON'T LOCK UP.
02/01/94 THE PER CENT COMPLETE PROMPTS ARE IN WHITE ON RED AND SHOULD TALK
BETTER NOW.
02/01/94 TEMPORARY MACRO FILES ARE NOW DELETING PROPERLY
02/01/94 fr will now handle file names beginning with numbers and single-
letter file names like "a.txt".
02/01/94 macro editor screen now shows the entire macro entry.
02/01/94 The cursor is now tracking properly in the macro editor
01/30/94 decolumnize text is back on the menu and working again.
01/26/94 documentation revised and hopefully in final form.
01/26/94 the bugs in the move blocks option alt-m are fixed, I hope.
01/26/94 The bug that caused 0 changes to be made when duplicate entries
were found in the temporary and universal macro files is fixed.
01/26/94 the contextual information for prompted corrections now formats
properly on the screen.
01/26/94 THE BUG WHERE THE "F" and "B" searches were getting crossed up with
the enter key in proofread is fixed.
01/25/94 the operate on blocked text only and the flush temporary macro file
(y/n) prompts no longer appear when fr is called from the command line or
a batch file.
01/25/94 the roblem with loading and using the temporary macro file is fixed.
01/24/94 do avoid confusion we are calling dictionaries macro files, now.
01/24/94 the "dictionaries" menu option is now changed to macros.
01/23/94 the problem with the searches spewing huge amounts of text is fixed.
01/22/94 the ctrl-left arrow now works properly.
01/20/94 DUPLICATE DICTIONARY ENTRIES ARE NOT LOADED ANY MORE.
01/20/94 PROMPTED CORRECTIONS NOW GIVES THE ENTIRE SENTENCE WHERE THE ERROR
WAS FOUND THEN PROMPTS WITH THE ENTIRE WORD AS IT IS AND AS IT WOULD BE
AFTER CORRECTION. HOPEFULLY, THIS WILL MAKE THE PROMPTS CLEARER.
01/20/94 ALONG THE SAME LINES, THE FR.FRD FILE NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED TO
DEFAULT.FRD MAKING IT OBVIOUS HOW TO RELOAD IT FROM THE LIST.
01/18/94 CURSOR RESETS PROPERLY AFTER THE A M AND ENTER COMMANDS IN THE
PROOFREADER.
01/18/94 you can perform cleanup and format operations on a marked block
of text.
01/17/94 the r and q prompted corrections are fixed.
01/17/94 documentation revised.