What's new?

Latest changes in Praat.

6.3.11 (17 July 2023)

- VowelEditor: repaired a bug by which the VowelEditor wouldn’t start up if an incorrect marks file had previously been specified.
- Mac: use a Cherokee font that distinguishes "ka" and "wo" well.
- OTMulti: vertical constraint names support newlines and disharmonies.
- Text windows are one tab plus 84.5 characters wide.
- Table: Get all values in column....
- Undocumented alpha support for Praat notebooks.
- Formulas: `correlation` (`vec1#`, `vec2#`), `vertical$` (for formatting string arrays).
- Scripting: `readFile#`, `readFile##`.

6.3.10 (3 May 2023)

- Windows: repaired a bug by which key strokes would no longer go to the Demo window after a pause window with no text fields was closed.
- Repaired a bug in the VowelEditor by which it would crash when starting up if fewer than 4 numbers had been set in the “Extra formant–bandwidth pairs” field.
- FormantPathEditor improvements.
- Undocumented alpha support for Praat notebooks.
- Scripting: vector literals can be indexed.
- Better interactions between editor scripts and pause windows.

6.3.09 (2 March 2023)

- SpeechSynthesizer can do eSpeak’s grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in 130 languages.
- FormantPath can now have time stretches that are not aligned to frame boundaries.
- Stabler handling of edge cases in editor scripting.
- Corrected an at least 23-year-old bug by which menu titles could not be greyed out on Windows.

6.3.08 (10 February 2023)

- Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which `word` and `sentence` would not work in new-style script forms.

6.3.07 (6 February 2023)

- Corrected an old bug that caused Matrix: Draw as squares to crash on a 1×1 matrix.
- NoulliGrid window: “NoulliGrid” menu.
- Scripting: faster vectors in arguments to `runScript()`.

6.3.06 (31 January 2023)

- Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which `optionmenu` would not work in new-style script forms.
- Scripting: `min()`, `max()`, `imin()` and `imax()` for vectors.

6.3.05 (27 January 2023)

- Corrected a bug introduced in 6.3.04 by which some old-style forms could not be read.
- Repaired an old bug by which `chooseReadString$()` could crash on Linux.

6.3.04 (24 January 2023)

- Playing multiple sounds with Play now concatenates them without breaks, and is interruptable by the Escape key.
- Renamed the remaining occurrences of Preferences to Settings (old scripts will continue to work).
- Create Polygon from values...
- Sound: To Sound (derivative)...
- Scripting: forms now look more like other commands.
- Scripting: forms can contain `infile`, `outfile`, `folder`, `realvector`, `positivevector`, `integervector` and `naturalvector` fields.
- Scripting: in forms and pause forms, you can now set the number of lines in `text`, `infile`, `outfile`, `folder`, and vector fields.

6.3.03 (17 December 2022)

- Sound files: read Kay® Nasometer™ files (as separate channels).
- Script window: indent and exdent.
- Scripting: conserve editor environment in `runScript`.

6.3.02 (29 November 2022)

- Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.20 by which typing Tab would not start a Sound.
- Sound window: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.19 by which drawing selection hairs could not be switched off (or on) when painting a spectrogram to the Picture window.

6.3.01 (21 November 2022)

- Fixed a crash introduced in 6.3 when closing an editor window by choosing Close (or by typing Command-W).

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