2007 Release
New Feature:
- All new Project Assistant sidebar.
- New Dale-Chall and Revised Spache word lists can now be displayed in a sidebar. This can be a useful reference when reviewing the unfamiliar words in your document.
- Custom familiar-word tests. You can create new tests using your own word lists, as well as create tests based on Dale-Chall or Spache and append your own words to them.
- The statistics section now includes warnings for any issues encountered in your document. For example, if your document has a large average sentence length, then this statistic is highlighted and a note indicating the problem is included.
- The overly-long sentence window now displays the word count after every sentence.
- Numerous new graph options, including:
- Ability to apply a color fade to your backgrounds.
- Ability to control the opacity of your backgrounds.
- Ability to add a logo or watermark to your graphs.
- Ability to customize the bar chart appearance.
- Ability to save graphs in greyscale mode.
- More control over how difficult words and sentences are highlighted. You can toggle between highlighting the background of the word or set the word’s font to the highlight color.
- Standard deviation and median are now included in the readability score section (statistics display must be set to verbose).
- More control over how sentences are deduced.
1.1.2 Release
New Feature:
- Added list of all words (and their respective frequency counts) to the difficult words section.
1.1.1 Release
New Features:
- Number of proper nouns added to the statistics.
- Improved support for proper noun detection. Some tests may produce slightly lower results than previous versions.
- Updated documentation.
1.1 Release
New Features:
- Webpages can now be analyzed.
- Added RIX readability test.
- Added option to exclude incomplete sentences
from the analysis.
- Added option to toggle the detail of
statistics.
- Added options to change the graph title and
axis fonts.
- Added options to change the graphs' background colors.
- Added options to set an image as the graphs'
background.
- Added support for printer headers and footers.
- Improved inclusion of punctuation in the highlighted
text windows.
- Averages of the readability scores and age levels are
now included in the results window.
- Added "technical document" as a document type
in the New Project wizard.
- Added new option "New project from clipboard" as a
shortcut to create a new project using the text on the clipboard.
- UTF-8 encoded files now supported.
- Added option to word list exporter to save only the
selected rows.
- Improved HTML importer.
- Improved syllable counter, including better support
for acronyms and hyphenated words.
- New examples and technical notes added to the
documentation.
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