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February 4th, 2008 The scientific journal CALICO has just released a review of BonPatron.com. According to their extensive evaluation, BonPatron is able to catch 88% of student errors (and its feedback is deemed beneficial more than 90% of the time). You can read the full review here. January 30th, 2008 BonPatron Pro just got a little better! We have recently added an English - French translation tool. You can try it out over the next few weeks on our free site. However, to have permanent access to this and all the other Pro features, you will need a subscription. December 4th, 2007 Would you like to know how to use BonPatron in your French language course? You'll find some helpful suggestions here. November 10th TEACHERS!: Would you like your students to enjoy the educational advantages of BonPatron Pro? We have great prices for schools. Please contact us for more information. October 4th We would like to welcome Saint Michael's Catholic School (Pincher Creek, Alberta) and McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) who have subscribed to BonPatron Pro and whose students now benefit from Pro's many educational advantages! September 24 People are talking ! Emploithèque (a government sector jobs site in France), has just published an interview with T. Nadasdi and S. Sinclair, your humble BonPatron servants. September 15th, 2007 We have just added a series of pedagogical exercises to our Pro version. Your students can now benefit from interactive exercises that are related to the specific types of errors they make! (see pro.bonpatron.com) September 4th, 2007 We have just lauched BonPatron Pro, a new editor with many advantages. For the full story, see pro.bonpatron.com August 8, 2007 We have just completed a major increase in our server capacity which will allow BonPatron to function smoothly as usage of the site continues to grow! July 5, 2007 Calling all web developers and forum administrators: add a specialized link to your page to allow your visitors to quickly correct their texts using BonPatron! See more details here. June 16, 2007 We have added a button to the toolbar (above the editor) that looks like a yellow paintbrush and that allows you to remove all formatting (including indications of errors) before copying your text from the editor. June 4th, 2007: We can help with English too! Visit our new site spellcheckplus.com for English grammar and spelling. May 8, 2007: Grammar correction with BonPatron may be even better than human correction! To read a preliminary study about this, click here. May 2nd, 2007: We have restored the news item to the front page (below the editor to the left) and we have now added a tips section (below the editor to the right). The tips will provide helpful pointers for using BonPatron.com. April 18th, 2007: In the last two days we've had some performance issues with the server, in large part because the response to our new interface has been fantastic. We've made a few adjustments and things should now be working smoothly. April 10th, 2007: We've made an improvement that will make it easier to use some extended symbols, including currency symbols. To insert special characters in the advanced editor, click on the Ω button (just above the editor). April 8th, 2007: We've added several button above the advanced (default) editor that should make it much easier to copy, paste, and print texts, either in styled or plain format. April 6th, We have just completed a new interface for the site, christened the BonPatron. Here's the address BonPatron.com. Please let us know what you think!
Below is news prior to April 2007 when BonPatron.com was called LePatron March 30th, 2007: LePatron is learning English! We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of a preview version of SpellCheckPlus.com, a writing tool in the same spirit as LePatron. For now, the grammar checking capabilities of SpellCheckPlus.com are much more limited than those of your favourite tool for French (LePatron), but we invite you to help us improve it by sending your comments and questions! A visit to SpellCheckPlus.com will also give you a glimpse of the new and improved interface for LePatron (including an integrated editor that displays errors). See you there! March 5th, 2007: If your school or business would like to receive information about how to use LePatron, please provide your address here January 9th, 2007: Please use the following address www.lepatron.ca when referring to our site. It is simpler than the "tapor" address, and more stable over the long term. [update: please use www.bonpatron.com instead] January 2nd, 2007: Follow this link to read a recent article about LePatron November 20, 2006: We have recently modified LePatron to better serve the needs of our francophone users. If you indicate that you are francophone (after the words "je suis" at the bottom of the screen), LePatron will ignore errors that are found only in the texts of second language learners. November 13, 2006: LePatron can now identify a number of spelling errors in words that begin with a capital letter (especially at the beginning of a sentence). November 6, 2006: Do you know how to say "a poppy" in French? (It's un coqulicot). Octobre 18, 2006: You can now read what other users are saying about LePatron by following this link. Octobre 2, 2006: We recently presented LePatron at a conference in France (Tidilem, Clermont-Ferrand). A preliminary version of the text that will appear in the conference proceedings can be found here. June 12, 2006: This column will help us keep you up-to-date on news from the LePatron project. June 3, 2006: If you don't have your keyboard configured to use accented characters, you'll like our new keyboard shortcuts, available just above the text editing box. |
