The Nu Echo team is pleased to announce the release of a new beta version of NuGram IDE.
Highlights
In addition to a number of small bug fixes, the following features have been added, in response to specific requests from users:
- Unified editor. The ABNF and coverage editors have been merged in a single, multi-tab editor.
- Improved refactoring tools. The refactoring tools have been enhanced to better support semantic tags. For example, semantic slots can now be renamed. Also, the rule extraction refactoring properly adjusts semantic tags.
- GSL Importer. Nuance GSL grammars can now be translated to ABNF.
- Better encoding detection. The environment now uses the proper Eclipse mechanism to detect the encoding of an ABNF file.
- Comments preservation for imported grammars. When converting grammars from XML form or GSL to ABNF, comments are preserved.
- Project/folder publishing. Whole grammar hierarchies can be uploaded to a NuGram Server at once. See the online documentation for more details.
NuGram Hosted Server improvements
We also recently upgraded the NuGram Hosted Server with support for the following features:
- Complete HTTPS support. The login and registration process is now done via secured pages to help protect privacy. Also, the NuGram Server HTTP API now fully supports HTTPS.
- Grammar Content viewing. Grammars published on the server can be previewed from the grammar browsing page. Just click on a grammar name and see the grammar source code!
- Account settings. A new Account page let you manage your account settings.
Download now!
We strongly encourage people to download this new version as soon as possible as it contains many important new features and bug fixes (and the previous version will expire on November 1st, anyway, while the new release will expire on April 1st, 2009). And as usual, we solicit your feedback to help improve our product and better support your grammar development process.
