TheScribe
TheScribe integrates a WordProcessor and a WordList Manager into a real-time Profiler Engine, providing language educators and researchers with a specialized environment tuned for the careful creation of lexically-sensitive educational and experimental materials.
Feature List
Some of the most interesting features of TheScribe are:
| Features |
Description |
| Rich Edit format |
Partial compatibility with Microsoft Word®. Copy and paste to/from TheScribe. |
| Real-time vocabulary profiling |
Text is color tagged as it is being typed. |
| Real-time counts |
Global type and token tallies as text is being typed. |
| Document formatting |
Font style and size, alignment, bulleted lists, indentation. |
| Document operations |
Unlimited undo and redo, as well as search and replace. |
| Portability |
Fully functional when run from portable devices such as a USB. |
| Price |
Absolutely 100% free of charge. |
| Wordlist management |
Creation, modification, and external file operations. |
| Wordlist statistics |
Real-time display of text coverage by individual wordlist. |
| Color customization |
User-defined by individual wordlist. |
| Dynamic display |
Activation/deactivation of wordlists. |
| Text decomposition |
Types (with tallies) organized alphabetically by the wordlist they belong to. Otherwise, under "Off-listed". |
| Wordlists |
Presently including the GSL, AWL, as well as their respective word families and capable of using any user-defined wordlists. |
Download
This is a stable
beta release which means that it is unfinished but of sufficient quality to be used productively. Nonetheless, as it is a
beta, expect the unexpected and, thus,
save your work often.
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Wordlists
TheScribe's package includes four wordlist files in the directory "[INSTALLATION PATH]\_WordLists":
| Filename |
Details |
| GSL.TXT |
General Service List consisting of 2,284 headwords organized in descending frequency order. |
| GSL_WF.TXT |
Expands the GSL to include high-frequency word family members (approx. 7,800 words). The list is sorted alphabetically. |
| AWL.TXT |
Academic Word List consisting of 570 headwords organized in descending frequency order. |
| AWL_WF.TXT |
Expands the AWL to include high-frequency word family members (approx. 3,100 words). The list is sorted alphabetically. |
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