Attention Apple Mavericks Users

If you are using TLex, tlCorpus, tlTerm or tlDatabase on the new Apple "Mavericks", we would like to draw your attention to the following issue that you may encounter: http://tshwanedje.com/kb/1; the bug is seemingly in Apple Mavericks itself (not in our software), and the workaround for now is to disable "Cover Flow mode" in Finder (the issue only occurs if you are using Cover Flow mode). Windows users are not affected.

Tutorial Video: Auto-sorting Subentries in TLex

New tutorial video: http://youtu.be/p82w0YL8AI4. (Note you'll need to update your software to the very latest to try this).

This new functionality is also applicable to tlTerm and tlDatabase.

Esperanto - English Dictionary and Chinese - English Dictionary Updates

We've created a new online-searchable mirror of Paul Denisowski's Esperanto - English dictionary:

We've also uploaded a few updates and feature improvements to our CC-CEDICT (Chinese - English Dictionary) mirror.

Showcase: Focal.ie CD-ROM of the National Terminology Database for Irish

TshwaneDJe did the software development for the CD-ROM version of the National Terminology Database for Irish.

“The software can be run directly from the CD-ROM or installed on your computer. It enables you to search a copy of the terminology database www.focal.ie while offline ... there is also a plug-in for ... Microsoft Word. This plug-in searches the CD-ROM automatically for terms which are typed or selected in a Word document.

Features:
• Bilingual interface
• Fast and powerful search that can deal with inflected forms, minor spelling errors, whole words or parts of words, single-word or multi-word terms, and more
• Alphabetical listing of terms
• Microsoft Word integration on Windows
• Runs from the CD-ROM or installable to hard drive
• Easy to update”

This was created using our Electronic Dictionary Publishing platform, which has also been used to create other products such as the Oxford South African School Dictionary CD-ROM, and we'll be announcing more new products in the near future created using this platform.

If you are interested in publishing your dictionary or terminology electronically and affordably, contact us.

Longman-HAT Language Portal Website

[News 2023: Please use the following new address for these online dictionaries and other content: https://mml-hat.co.za/ ] We're pleased to announce the addition of the recently launched Longman-HAT language portal website (and online publishing / content platform) to our development portfolio.

The website features online dictionaries, games and activities, downloadable worksheets and activities for teachers for the classroom, crossword puzzles, a user-contributed photo gallery, videos, and much more new content being added regularly. Please feel free to explore the site. The website is available in both English and Afrikaans.

From the site: "It is with great pleasure that we introduce our new website to all who love language – a growing collection of dictionaries that you can refer to online, right here on your computer, tablet or cellphone. Plus: a language portal with all kinds of surprises and interesting features, especially for Afrikaans and English teachers, for learners and for every language lover."

Contributors and editors to the website include leading language specialists such as Dr Herman Beyer, Prof Rufus Gouws, Jana Luther, Tom McLachlan, Fred Pheiffer, Dawid van Lill and Marina van Lill.

The TLex dictionary authoring software and TLex online dictionary publishing system are being used for the online dictionaries, with the TLex "instant-publishing" functionality: New dictionary content updates can be published straight to the website by Pearson from within TLex, with just a few clicks.

Online Dictionaries [longman-hat.co.za]

Online Dictionaries [longman-hat.co.za]

Main Page [longman-hat.co.za]

Longman-HAT Website in Afrikaans [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

Games and Activities [longman-hat.co.za]

Software Tutorial Videos

Just a reminder to our users, free online tutorial videos are available for our software. (We've also recently added high-quality versions that can be downloaded for offline viewing or distribution here.)

Feel free to distribute these as widely as you like.

Bagrut Lexicon - EFL Learner's Dictionary

The Bagrut Lexicon (by Geoff Toister, of GT-Lex) is a unique new EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learner's dictionary in which the entries are linked to practice exercises, on each pair of adjacent pages.

“Bagrut Lexicon is a 2,000 word EFL learner’s dictionary with all entries linked to sets of practice exercises. The words have been selected from a corpus of matriculation-level reading comprehension texts while the thought-provoking exercises are easy enough to ensure that most learners will complete them successfully. Bagrut Lexicon expands vocabulary, provides classroom-centered activities and is ideal for independent study. It may be ordered online from ofarimbooks.co.il”

The dictionary was created with our TLex Dictionary Compilation Software.

Bagrut Lexicon - EFL Learner's Dictionary (Dictionary on Left Pages, Exercises on Right)

List of latest software improvements (changelog)

Just a reminder to our software users that you can always keep up to date on the latest new features and improvements to the software at our changelog, we suggest you check now and again.

Another TshwaneDJe / Oxford University Press Dictionary Wins Award

The Oxford University Press Zulu - English / English - Zulu Bilingual Dictionary, created in partnership with TshwaneDJe (and created with TLex), has been awarded the South African Translators' Institute 2012 SATI Prize for Outstanding Translation Dictionary.


The primary editorial team for the dictionary was: Editor-in-Chief: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver; Chief compiler: Nomusa Sibiya; Linguist: Arnett Wilkes; Publishing manager: Megan Hall; Project manager and senior editor: Fred Pheiffer

This award follows on from our 2009 award for our Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho dictionary in the same series.

Version 2012 (and free upgrades) now available

Version 2012 of the following products is now available, and all 9-digit License Numbers have been updated for free to this latest version:

• TLex Suite (TshwaneLex)
• tlTerm Standalone
• tlCorpus Standalone
• tlDatabase

For a list of new features in these releases, please see the ChangeLog. There are well over 100 new features and improvements since the release of version 2010.

The procedure for obtaining the upgrade is as follows:

1. Go to our website's 'downloads' section
2. Select the relevant product download page for your license
3. Click on the download link, and follow the installation and activation instructions

If you don't know your 9-digit License Number(s), you can use the "Software License Recovery" tool accessible from the 'Support' section of our website, or from the downloads page. Alternatively, you may contact us to obtain your license numbers. (The 9-digit License Number allows you to automatically activate the software when installing. ALL customers' licenses have previously been assigned these 9-digit License Numbers.)

Please note that version 2012 is still backwards-compatible with ALL previous releases of our software going all the way back to version 1, so no users have been 'left behind' - all users can update to the latest versions.

Note that, as always, we recommend making a backup of your data before upgrading.