Fwd: Release of ELAN 3.8.1

[Nick Thieberger]

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From: Han Sloetjes <han.sloetjes at mpi.nl>
Date: 2009/11/19
Subject: Release of ELAN 3.8.1
To: ELAN Discussion Group <elan at mpi.nl>


Dear all,

This is to announce the release of ELAN 3.8.1. This version is
primarily intended to fix a number of bugs, a few of which could lead
to the loss of data, but it also adds some new features.

These are the main issues addressed:
- shifting annotations on the active tier, or on all tiers, left or
right of the crosshair. If the tier had depending time alignable
tiers, saved files could sometimes not be opened again.
- editing annotations on a time-subdivision tier, in a context where
there are adjacent annotations on the root level, could lead to the
disappearance of the group of annotations to the right of the edited
group. This could also happen while undoing an edit.
- merging annotations with unaligned time subdivision child
annotations could result in wrongly ordered child annotations
- the import of FLEx files now better deals with irregularities in
order and type of FLEx elements and attributes
- it should now be possible to store more than one multiple file domains

Some of the new features are:
- pasting a group of annotations on a group of tiers with similar
structure and naming convention as the source tier group
- merging of two similarly structured groups of tiers into a new group of tiers
- create annotations based on the gaps between existing annotations of a tier
- change the case (lowercase/uppercase) of all annotations of selected tiers
- overrule the aspect ratio of videos

For a complete list of the fixes and new features, please consult the
release notes at: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/release-notes.html
Documentation of the new functions will be added to the manual later
(apologies for that).


Best regards,

Han Sloetjes