

TOADESE LANGUAGE UTILITY

Ever want to change the language words and tags (cultural place names, or possible names of battles)? How about write or translate entire texts into or from the game's language? Want to create your own language rules for some meta !fun!?

Spoiler (click to show/hide) Add new words to your DF world!

Translations (i.e. a Dwarf word) can be overwritten (so make sure to backup your language files)!

Look up words in English with results in Toadese (and vice versa)

Vanilla and Masterwork support

Non-game: Create or modify community language propositions with support for specific languages (i.e. ad hoc word construction).

Non-game: Implement language variants (e.g. formal, informal etc.).

"Backup Language Files" and "Revert to backups" buttons. Such feature.

Some subjectively pretty interface graphics.

Bug fixed: Toadese reverse lookup was case sensitive.

Bug fixed: Certain words (with spaces) were not appearing correctly.

Bug fixed: Duplicate lemmas were unselectable.

Improvement: Change background image (again). That cloud looks "derpy".

Improvement: You can now type "harvesters" or "harvesting" and the program correctly recognises the root word.

Note: Added DeviantArt link to about page.

Spoiler (click to show/hide) Feature: Added Toadese reverse lookup (finally). Works, but still experimental. Now you can read and write your own texts with ease!

Improvement: Refined backup system slightly. Remember to back up anyway when you start out.

Improvement: Added more interface graphics.

Notes:

Note: You must generate a new world for the new words to show up and work, unless someone can think of a workaround. Doesn't seem to work for me.

Note: All new nouns, verbs and adjective are given all the possible language tokens, so there might be some weird

name possibilities. I'll add customisation for this later if requested.

name possibilities. I'll add customisation for this later if requested. Note: Still only partial Masterwork support. Getting there! Notes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide) Feature: Add new words to your DF world! Preliminary !EXPERIMENTS! look good so far.

Feature: Added "Backup Language Files" and "Revert to backups" buttons.

Feature: Spruced things up a bit (I am easily distracted and just discovered GIMP).

Feature: Partial game word editing (create or overwrite translations, (only) add symbol tags to words). More coming!

Feature: Translations (i.e. the Dwarf word) can be overwritten (so make sure to backup your language files)!

Improvement: Filtering significantly faster.

Bug fixed: Prefixes like "after" and "un" weren't showing up properly.

Bug fixed: Some other words weren't showing up or displaying correctly with POS filters on.

Spoiler (click to show/hide) Look up words in English with results in Toadese (the name I chose to refer to Toady's language)

Vanilla and Masterwork support

Some factorisation and form redesign.

Added community language propositions support with specific language support.

Added language variants support (e.g. formal, informal, etc.).

Added advanced adjective (lemma, comparative,superlative), noun (singular, plural) and verb (active, passive and reflexive) info.

Added ad hoc word construction (i.e. noun AS_ADJECTIVE etc.).

Full Masterwork support one day

Complete lemma editing (in language_words.txt file), complete symbol tag editing (e.g. removing tags).

Add proposition vocabulary suggestions like propositions etc. to word list(not for in-game use).

Add ablaut support (i.e. Loam-like, see relevant discussion on forum page 1).

Add AS_VERB ad hoc construction for nouns and adjectives (on request only at this point).

Ability to add new languages.

Sentence translator.

Pronunciation guide.

Whatever, please send suggestions!

As part of my learning how to code, I've made an application to search, view and edit the DF dictionaries to see translations or add new words to the game. I mostly began this project because I wanted to start composing songs in Toadese and this seemed a lot more convenient than Notepad++.List of features:Changelog 0.4.4:Changelog 0.4:Changelog 0.3:Changelog 0.2:Planned Features:Screenshot 0.4:DOWNLOAD LINK V0.4.4: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8397 INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: Place anywhere. Set the Objects folder. A cfg.ini file will be made where you run it, but that's it.INCLUDED FILES: Toadese Language Utility.exe, cfg.ini (generated),props.txt,TLU_Readme.txt