{"id":231,"date":"2021-12-14T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:27:06","slug":"miscellaneous-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/14\/miscellaneous-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had any updates about crossword tools here at Crossword Nexus, but that doesn&#8217;t mean nothing has been going on.\u00a0 While we don&#8217;t have any big announcements quite yet, there have been many improvements to our offerings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/solve\">Crossword Nexus Solver<\/a> now has the &#8220;Notepad&#8221; available from the &#8220;File&#8221; dropdown, if a notepad exists.\u00a0 This is mostly helpful when solving on mobile, but it can help desktop users too.<\/li>\n<li>The solver has handled iPuz files for a while now, but ones generated by CrossFire weirdly have the &#8220;Down&#8221; clues before the &#8220;Across&#8221; ones.\u00a0 The newest update puts them in the proper order.<\/li>\n<li>The PDFs generated by the solver and the <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/apps\/puz-to-pdf\/\">puz-to-pdf<\/a> tool both have multiple improvements, including:\n<ul>\n<li>PDFs now render properly in Adobe Reader<\/li>\n<li>Barred grids actually have bars in them now<\/li>\n<li>Numbers are now bolded and offset from the clues, making individual clues easier to find<\/li>\n<li>Clues are easier to read in puzzles that are particularly wordy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/apps\/submission_check\/\">submission checker<\/a> now shows clue numbers for dupes, making them easier to track down<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve been continuing to update the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Crossword-Nexus\/collaborative-word-list\">collaborative word list<\/a> behind the scenes, cleaning up scores that were too high and adding new words as we discover them.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also (with Peter&#8217;s permission) added all the words from <a href=\"https:\/\/peterbroda.me\/crosswords\/wordlist\/\">The Broda scored list<\/a> into ours, making a huge list even &#8230; huger.<\/li>\n<li>As a result of our work on the collaborative word list, we&#8217;ve updated the word list that powers the <a href=\"https:\/\/boisvert42.pythonanywhere.com\/\">Acrostic Generator<\/a>, helping to make clean acrostics faster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have bigger updates for you soon, but for now, enjoy our improved offerings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had any updates about crossword tools here at Crossword Nexus, but that doesn&#8217;t mean nothing has been going on.\u00a0 While we don&#8217;t have any big announcements quite yet, there have been many improvements to our offerings: The Crossword Nexus Solver now has the &#8220;Notepad&#8221; available from the &#8220;File&#8221; dropdown,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/14\/miscellaneous-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Miscellaneous Updates&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossword-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosswordnexus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}