Release notes

See the app-specific tutorials via tf.about.corpora.

10

10.2.6

2022-09-23

The function Nodes.walk() also accepts a parameter nodes, so that you can not only walk through the total nodes set, but also through arbitrary nodesets. Always in canonical order.

There is a new function xmlEsc().

10.2.5

2022-09-13

• fix of a bug in the TF-browser caused by the previous change: the headings of section-3 levels came out wrong

• the second parameter of plainTuple() and prettyTuple() is now optional. It passes the sequence number of the tuple to display. This is useful if the tuple is a member of a bigger list, but not if the tuple stands on its own.

10.2.2-4

2022-09-08

Changes in the output of Text-Fabric to the console. It is detected whether it runs in interactive mode (e.g. Jupyter notebook) or not. If not, the display methods of the Jupyter notebook are suppressed, and many outputs are done in plain text instead of HTML.

Fixes in volume support.

Small fixes in version mappings.

10.2.1

2022-08-23

Changes in the messages that TF emits. Several functions have an optional silent parameter by which you could control the verbosity of TF.

That parameter now accepts different values, although the old values still work with nearly the same effect.

The default value for silent results in slightly terser behaviour than the previous default setting.

See Timestamp.

10.2.0

2022-08-18

The use() function has an extra optional parameter loadData=True by which you can prevent data loading. That is useful if you want to inspect properties of a dataset without the costly loading of much data.

There is a new function to get existing volumes in a dataset: getVolumes(). It is also available as methods on the App and Fabric objects so you can also say TF.getVolumes() and A.getVolumes().

Improvements in the function extract():

• its third argument (volumes) is replaced from a positional argument into a keyword argument with default value True.
• Fixed a bug in reporting results

Improvement in the function collect():

• Fixed a crash that occurred while executing this function under certain conditions

10.2

10.1.0

2022-07-13

Addition of a module tf.convert.variants that can be used in a tf.convert.walker conversion. It can be used to process TEI app-lem-rdg elements (critical apparatus). What it does for you is to create sentence-like nodes from sentence-boundary information. It deals with the cases where variants have different sentence boundaries.

Some minor fixes in defaults and documentation.

10.1

10.0.4

2022-07-04

Addition to the tf.convert.walker api: cv.link() to manually link a node to existing slots instead of relying on the automatic linking.

10.0.3

2022-06-22

Bug fix in the Text-Fabric browser. Spotted by Jorik Groen.

The Text-Fabric browser was not able to download data correctly, because it communicated the name of the backend incorrectly to the TF-kernel.

10.0.2

2022-06-20

It is now also possible to have datasets and modules of datasets coming from different backends.

Refactoring:

• ditched the word host. Used backend instead.
• the ~/text-fabric-data cache dir now first has a layer of subdirectories according to the backend that the data comes from: github, gitlab and whatever server is serving a GitLab instance.
• subfolder download for GitLab is supported if the gitlab backend supports it. If not, we fall back on downloading the whole repo and then discarding what we do not need. Gitlabs with versions at least 14.4.0 support downloading of subfolders.

10.0.1

2022-06-17

Small fix. GitLab.com supports downloading of subfolders, and I am prepared to make use of that but the current python-gitlab module does not support that part of the API. So I work around it.

10.0.0

2022-06-17

Additions

Backend support: see checkoutRepo() and App.

A backend is an online repository where TF apps/data can be stored.

Up till now, Text-Fabric worked with a single backend: GitHub. It uses the API of GitHub to find releases and commits and to download required data on demand.

With this version, Text-Fabric can also talk to GitLab instances.

The most prominent calls on the backend are the use() function and the start of the Text-Fabric browser.

They will work with a GitLab backend if you pass the instance address with the optional parameter backend:

A = use("annotation/banks", backend="gitlab.huc.knaw.nl")

or

A = use("annotation/banks", backend="gitlab.com")

In the Text-Fabric browser that looks as follows:

text-fabric annotation/banks --backend=gitlab.huc.knaw.nl

or

text-fabric annotation/banks --backend=gitlab.com

When backend is omitted or is None, the backend defaults to github.

Limitations

GitLab does not support Jupyter Notebooks. And even if you converted them to HTML, GitLab does not offer a rendered view on HTML pages, unless you use GitLab Pages.

But that is not always enabled.

Currently, Text-Fabric does not support publishing to GitLab pages, although everything up to building a Pages site is supported.

When on a closed on-premise installation of GitLab, there is no way to see rendered notebooks on NBViewer, simply because NBViewer has no access to the shielded notebooks.

10.0

Older releases

See tf.about.releasesold.

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