Release notes

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

11

11.3

11.3.1 (upcoming)

2023-03-??

• Fix: open() statements should specify the encoding="utf8", otherwise a non utf8 encoding may be used on Windows. I [knew}(https://annotation.github.io/text-fabric/tf/about/releasesold.html#7102) this, but in later code I have forgotten this. Thanks to Saulo de Oliveira Cantanhêde for reporting this.

11.3.0

2023-03-23

• New interface option in pretty displays: show all features, except otype. See tf.advanced.options under multiFeatures. It works in the Text-Fabric browser and in Jupyter notebooks.

  Handy for exploring new and unknown TF datasets, for example those which are converted literally from an intricate TEI nest of files.

• Improvements in the transcription document generated by the tf.convert.tei.

• New conversion from TF to Pandas tf.convert.pandas, callable as A.exportPandas(). For examples see: BHSA Moby Dick Ferdinand Huyck

• The function importMQL() must be called in a different way. The function exportMQL() can be called from a TF or A object.

• Removed a clumsy fix that produces a spurious space in unwanted places. The fix was introduced earlier to provide extra spaces in the Hermans corpus, and it worked quite nicely there. But now is Martijn complaining because he sees too many spaces in the Samaritan Pentateuch. This has been fixed.

11.2

11.2.3

2023-03-08

Improvements in the TEI to TF conversion:

• you can opt for the word as slot type instead of the character; this gives a bit of a lower resolution, but data processing is much quicker;
• you can choose between two sectioning models
  1. folders, files, top-level elements as chunks
  2. top-level elements as chapters, elements below it as chunks.

Fix in export(): if a value starts with a quote, it will be preceded by a backslash, otherwise it disturbs Excel and Numbers when they read it in a tab-separated file.

Other small fixes.

11.2.2

2023-02-22

Added tf.convert.xml, a straightforward, generic XML to TF converter, obtained from tf.convert.tei by stripping almost all intelligence from it. It serves as a stub to start off with your own XML to TF conversion program.

For an example how to use it, see its application to the Greek New Testament, lowfat trees.

11.2.1

2023-02-21

Addition to the nbconvert tool: tf.tools.nbconvert: If you pass only an input dir, it creates an html index for that directory. You can put that in the top of your public folder in GitLab, so that readers of the Pages documentation can navigate to all generated docs.

A fix in tf.tools.xmlschema: while analysing definitions in an xsd file, the imports of other xsd files were not heeded. Now they are. But not recursively, because in the examples I saw, files imported each other mutually or with cycles.

Various enhancements to the tf.convert.tei conversion:

• a fix in whitespace handling (the whitespace removal was a bit too aggressive), the root cause of this was the afore-mentioned bug in tf.tools.xmlschema;
• a text format with layout is defined and set as the default;
• text within the tei header and notes is displayed in a different color.

A fix of an error, spotted by Christian C. Høygaard, while loading a TF resource in a slightly unusual way.

11.2.0

2023-02-16

New converter: TEI to TF

This is a generic, but also somewhat dumb, converter that takes all information in a nest of TEI files and transforms it into a valid and ready-to-use TF dataset.

But it is also a somewhat smart, because it generates a TF app and documentation for the new dataset.

See tf.convert.tei

New command line tool: nbconvert

nbconvert inDirectory outDirectory

Converts a directory of interlinked notebooks to HTML and keeps the interlinking intact. Handy if you want to show your notebooks in the Pages service of GitHub or GitLab, bypassing NBViewer.

See tf.tools.nbconvert

New command line tool: xmlschema

xmlschema analyse schema.xsd

Derives meaningful information from an XML schema.

See tf.tools.xmlschema

New API function: flexLink

A.flexLink() generates an app-dependent link to a tutorial or document served via the Pages of GitHub or GitLab.

See flexLink()

Other improvements

Various app-configuration improvements under the hood, solving all kinds of edge cases, mostly having to do with on-premiss GitLab backends.

11.1

11.1.4

2023-02-12

Small improvement in rendering features with nodes: if a feature value ends with a space, it was invisible in a pretty display. now we replace the last space by a non-breaking space.

Small fix for when Text-Fabric is installed without extras, just pip install text-fabric and not pip install 'text-fabric[all]'

In that case text-fabric referred to an error class that was not imported. Spotted by Martijn Naaijer. Fixed.

11.1.3

2023-02-03

In the Text-Fabric browser you can now resize the column in which you write your query.

11.1.2

2023-01-15

Small fix in math display.

11.1.1

2023-01-13

Small fixes

11.1.0

2023-01-12

Mathematical formulas in TeX notation are supported. You can configure any app by putting showMath: true in its config.yaml, under interface defaults.

Several small tweaks and fixes and the higher level functions: how text-fabric displays nodes in Jupyter Notebooks and in the Text-Fabric browser.

It is used in the letters of Descartes.

11.0

11.0.7

2022-12-30

This fixes issue #78, where Text-Fabric crashes if the binary data for a feature is corrupted. This may happen if Text-Fabric is interrupted in the precomputation stage. Thanks to Seth Howell for reporting this.

11.0.6

2022-12-27

• Small fix in the TF browser (prettyTuple() is called with sec= instead of seq=).
• Fix in advanced.search.py, introduced by revisiting some code that deals with sets. Reported by Oliver Glanz.

11.0.4-5

2022-12-18

• Improved display of special characters in text-fabric browser.
• When custom sets are loaded together with a data source, they are automatically passed to the sets parameter in A.search(), so that you do not have to pass them explicitly.
• The header information after loading a dataset is improved: it contains a list of the custom sets that have been loaded and a list of the node types in the dataset, with some statistics.
• In the Text-Fabric browser this header information is shown when you expand a new tab in the side bar: Corpus.

11.0.3

2022-12-17

Backends

Small fixes for problems encountered when using gitlab backends.

Search

Fixed a problem spotted by Camil Staps: in the Text-Fabric browser valid queries with a quantifier gave error-like messages and no results.

• The cause was two-fold: the processing of quantifiers led to extra informational messages. (This is a regression)
• The Text-Fabric browser interpreted these messages as error messages.

Both problems have been fixed.

• The extra informational messages are suppressed (as it was earlier the case).
• The result that the kernel passes to the webserver now includes a status parameter, separate from the messages, which conveys whether the query was successfull. Queries with informational messages and a positive status will have their results shown as well as their messages.

11.0.2

2022-12-04

Text-Fabric will detect if it runs on an iPad. On an iPad the home directory ~ is not writable. In that case, Text-Fabric will use ~/Documents instead of ~ consistently.

When Text-Fabric reports filenames on the interface, it always unexpandusers it, so that it does not reveal the location of your home directory.

Normally, it replaces your home directory by ~, but on iPad it replaces your home directory/Documents by ~.

So if you publish notebooks made on an iPad or made on a computer, there is no difference in the reported file names.

11.0.1

2022-11-18

Small fixes: the newest version of the pygithub module issues slightly different errors. Text-Fabric did not catch some of them, and went on after failures, which led to unspeakable and incomprehensible further errors. That has been fixed.

As a consequence, we require the now newest release of that module, which in turns requires a Python version of at least 3.7.0.

So we have bumped the Python requirement for Text-Fabric from 3.6.3 to 3.7.0.

11.0.0

2022-11-11

Text-Fabric can be installed with different capabilities.

On some platforms not all requirements for Text-Fabric can be met, e.g. the Github or GitLab backends, or the Text-Fabric browser.

You can now install a bare Text-Fabric, without those capabilities, or a more capable Text-Fabric with additional capabilities.

Text-Fabric will detect what its capabilities are, and issue warnings if it asked to do tasks for which it lacks the capabilities.

See more in tf.about.install.

Older releases

See tf.about.releasesold.

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