5.3 (15 October 2011)

5.2.46 (7 October 2011)

• Corrected the same very old bug as in 5.2.44, but now also for opening and saving files.

• Many better messages.

5.2.45 (29 September 2011)

• Spectrum window: Move cursor to nearest peak.

• Table: Save as comma-separated file....

• Windows: you can now change the font size of the script window.

• Windows scripting: the Info window now updates while you are writing to it.

• Windows: error messages now stay at the front so that you never have to click away an invisible message window anymore.

5.2.44 (23 September 2011)

• Corrected a very old bug in the history mechanism (the button title wouldn't always show up).

5.2.43 (21 September 2011)

• Linux: you can now change the font size of the script window.

• Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when opening an already open file in the script window.

5.2.42 (18 September 2011)

• Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that prevented formulas from working on FormantGrid objects.

5.2.41 (17 September 2011)

• Improved dashed-dotted lines in EPS files.

• Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that caused Praat to crash when running an ExperimentMFC.

5.2.40 (11 September 2011)

• Corrected a bug in the 64-bit Windows edition that led to an incorrect location for the preferences files.

5.2.39 (10 September 2011)

• 64-bit edition for Windows.

• Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash instead of saying “undefined” when reporting the shimmer of a sound with fewer than 3 pulses.

5.2.38 (6 September 2011)

• Corrected several bugs that were introduced in 5.2.36 in the Inspect window.

5.2.37 (2 September 2011)

• Graphics: added the Chinese phonetic symbols ɿ and ʅ. See Phonetic symbols: vowels.

• Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.36 that caused Praat to crash when querying formant quantiles.

5.2.36 (30 August 2011)

• Graphics: added superscript diacritics as single symbols: ʰ (\^h), ʲ (\^j), and many more; also ‿ (\_u). See Phonetic symbols: diacritics.

• Praat fully converted to C++ (this may initially cause some bugs, but will be more reliable in the end).

5.2.35 (5 August 2011)

• Corrected the menus of the Sound and TextGrid windows.

5.2.34 (3 August 2011)

• Insert picture from file... now works on Windows (as well as on the Mac).

• Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when playing a LongSound.

5.2.33 (29 July 2011)

• Improved the reliability of sound playing and several other things.

• Improved several error messages.

5.2.32 (22 July 2011)

• Corrected several problems with error messages.

• Corrected a bug that could cause slow execution of scripts with forms.

5.2.31 (21 July 2011)

• Corrected a bug that caused an incorrect window size in the VowelEditor.

• Corrected a bug that caused incorrect error messages when opening a FLAC file as a LongSound.

• Sound window: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash when zooming in on the left or right edge.

5.2.30 (18 July 2011)

• Corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.29 whereby the list of object actions could stay empty after an error message in a script.

• Corrected a bug in Klatt synthesis whereby the generation of a sound could be refused.

5.2.29 (12 July 2011)

• More accurate error checking, due to Praat's conversion to C++ (last C-only version was 5.2.17).

5.2.28 (28 June 2011)

• Corrected some Polygon bugs.

5.2.27 (19 June 2011)

• Polygon: Draw (closed)....

• PointProcess: To Sound (phonation)...: corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash if pulses lay outside the time domain.

5.2.26 (24 May 2011)

• Corrected a bug that could cause Praat to crash on some platforms when reading a Praat binary file.

• ExperimentMFC: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash if an experiment contained zero trials.

• Corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash when merging multiple IntervalTiers.

5.2.25 (11 May 2011)

• OT learning: corrected a crashing bug from Get candidate....

5.2.24 (10 May 2011)

• Ability to open WAV files that contain incorrect information about the number of samples.

• Removed an old bug that could cause Praat to fail to read a chronological TextGrid text file.

5.2.23 (1 May 2011)

• Removed a bug introduced recently that could cause Praat to crash when working with derivatives of TableOfReal (such as Distributions).

5.2.22 (14 April 2011)

• ExperimentMFC: reaction times for key presses.

• Linux: more reliable start-up on German systems.

5.2.21 (29 March 2011)

• Scripting: removed a crashing bug introduced for colour names in 5.2.20.

5.2.20 (25 March 2011)

• Scripting: removed a large memory leak for indexed variables.

• Scripting: removed a small memory leak for colour names.

• Support for very long file paths on the Mac.

5.2.19 (16 March 2011)

• ExperimentMFC: corrected a bug introduced in 5.2.18 that could cause Praat to crash when extracting results from an incomplete experiment.

5.2.18 (9 March 2011)

• ExperimentMFC: incomplete experiments can nevertheless output their incomplete results.

5.2.17 (2 March 2011)

• Better names for Table opening and saving commands.

• ExperimentMFC: reaction times for mouse clicks.

• Linux/GTK: corrected triple clicks in ExperimentMFC.

5.2.16 (20 February 2011)

• Better support for WAV files with special “chunks” in them.

• Manual: documentation of explicit formulas for jitter measurements.

5.2.15 (11 February 2011)

• Sounds: Concatenate with overlap....

5.2.14 (8 February 2011)

• Repaired crashing bug in Manipulation window introduced in 5.2.13.

5.2.13 (7 February 2011)

• Renamed Write commands to Save commands.

• Scripting: allow pause forms without Stop button (see Scripting 6.6. Controlling the user).

• GTK: correct behaviour of default buttons.

5.2.12 (28 January 2011)

• Renamed Edit buttons to View & Edit.

• Better visibility of dragged things on Linux.

5.2.11 (18 January 2011)

• Better visibility of dragged things (sound selection, tier points, TextGrid boundaries) on Windows and Linux.

5.2.10 (11 January 2011)

• Renamed Read and Write menus to Open and Save.

• Sound: use of Formula (part)... can speed up formulas appreciably.

5.2.09 (9 January 2011)

• Much improved scripting tutorial.

• Listening experiments can now show pictures instead of just texts (on the Mac).

• EPS files can now be many miles wide instead of just 55 inches.

5.2.08 (1 January 2011)

• Improved manual.

• Improved memory allocation on 32-bit platforms: less probability of crashes when you approach the 2 GB memory limit gradually, and a new “low on memory; save your work now” warning.

• Removed IntervalTier and TextTier datatypes from Praat (old scripts that use them will continue to work).

5.2.07 (24 December 2010)

• Support for reading and writing multi-channel sound files (i.e. above two-channel stereo).

5.2.06 (18 December 2010)

• Picture window: a new (the fourth) line type, namely dashed-dotted.

• Support for analysing and drawing multi-channel sounds (i.e. above two-channel stereo).

• Can read some EEG files (BioSemi 24-bit BDF) as a Sound and a TextGrid object.

• Linux: compatibility with computers without English language support.

• Macintosh: support for high-plane (i.e. very uncommon) Unicode characters in file names (as already existed on Unix and Windows).

5.2.05 (4 December 2010)

• Regular expressions: better Unicode support.

• Scripting window: command Convert to C string.

5.2.04 (27 November 2010)

• Scripting: allow directory (folder) selector windows; see Scripting 6.6. Controlling the user.

5.2.03 (19 November 2010)

• Scripting: support for string arrays.

5.2.02 (17 November 2010)

• TextGrid window: corrected a bug that caused Praat to crash (instead of doing nothing) when you tried to add boundaries if the selection ran from the penultimate interval to the end of the TextGrid.

• Scripting: support for arrays with multiple indexes.

• Linux: made spectrogram drawing compatible with Ubuntu 10.10.

• Linux: made sound more easily available on Ubuntu 10.10.

5.2.01 (4 November 2010)

• Scripting: support for numeric arrays.

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