Sentence View -- new bugs

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–Windows 10, Brave, French

Sentence View has always been buggy, but for me in the past few days, it’s become even more annoying, close to unusable.

  • Sentence View frequently freezes. The only workarounds I’ve found are to back out to Page View then go back in. Or to close the page and reopen. But even then it may still freeze on reentry. It may have something to do with French lines which end in close quote “>>”.

  • Selecting more than 9 words fails. 9 words is the limit for a lingq. I select more than ten words when I want to copy/paste text from LingQ to a file or to an AI prompt.

It’s already awkward to copy text from LingQ since it requires two steps – first select, the text, then after it appears in Dictionary Pane, copy and paste from there. Copying directly from the text window will strip all the whitespace from the selection.

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Yup now the next page button stops us from going to next page if the next page starts with ».

Sometime there is period/fullstop before » which causes » to end up at the start of a new sentence line. Sometimes… all… alone…

I find that if you edit the material to remove space before » and importing after that would solve it.

So remove the space before »
Change “! »” to “!»”, “. »” to “.»” and “? »” to “?»”
In this way » won’t be badly split into a new line.

It seems to solve the next page problem too.

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I noticed YouTube auto-generated subtitles now include “>>” to indicate a change of speaker. Probably causing an issue with LingQs tokenization system.

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I mostly read French novels I’ve converted from EPUB to TXT files. Then I drop the TXT file into LingQ for import. The EPUB and TXT both show spaces surrounding the open and close-quotes – «, » (guillemets).

I suppose I could grep the TXT file to convert " »" to “»” then reimport the novel back into LingQ. Maybe that would work. However " »" is the proper French form, so this strikes as something that should be properly handled by LingQ.

I’ve long considered it an annoying bug in Sentence View that “»” usually appears on a separate line.

I’m reading a novel with lots of dialog. Once I hit the close-quote Sentence View freeze. it’s hard to get LingQ back on track without closing the page then reloading – a substantial interruption of my work flow.

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I’m also getting the freezing issue here, Windows 11, Chrome, Japanese.

It seems to happen when the next sentence starts with certain characters like 「, 」 and ・. It’s happening to material that was already uploaded and working perfectly.

I’ve been managing by changing to edit sentence, moving the page from there and then returning. Still an annoying bug.

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Thanks. This means the bug likely generalizes to Unicode punctuation in some cases, not just in French or Japanese.

I checked my iPad, which I rarely use, and the Sentence View freeze happens there too.

So presumably the problem is in LingQ’s common JavaScript used across web browsers.

And that means LingQ will have to fix this eventually.

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Agree, lingQ should have fixed it long ago, it doesn’t seems like it is something complicated to check for the » mark and split accordingly.

It didn’t used to freeze but now it does, maybe now they will fix it finally since it is a more serious bug now.

but… sometimes LingQ may take months or years to fix or never. Don’t put your learning on hold waiting, just work around it.

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Happily my French is good enough that I can get by with Page View. I keep the book in English by my side held open with a plastic clip.

I’m surprised not more people are commenting about this bug. Is it really working for most people?

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Yep, same problem for me with Japanese novel. Next page freeze when the content doesn’t have words.

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Yup, I noticed its when theres any type of quotation it splits the " into a seperate sentence. When it then tries to display that I think the " on its own registers as blank space, meaning the previous sentence isn’t replaced which I think bugs it out. Idk how its still not fixed when the bugs been present for almost a week now.

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I am now using page view too or I just go through lesson in the “Edit Sentence” mode.

Edit Sentence mode is great, it is how the normal sentence mode should be imo, or at least some of the features.

Currently, Edit Sentence mode has its own annoyances since it is not designed for consuming a lesson. Some of the issues.

  1. There is no bookmark.
  2. Doing a lesson in edit sentence also doesn’t add to stats.
  3. There are no highlight/lingQ but that is minor issue since there are sentence translation.
  4. Can’t create LingQs.

The pro of Edit Sentence mode for learning.

  1. In the App, the Play button location is within reach, perfect for 1 hand use. I can press play button without my finger covering any text.
  2. Translation are always visible.
  3. Ability to instantly make any fixes to text.
  4. Ability to instantly fix any audio sync issues.
  5. Edit Sentence mode does not seem to be affected by the >> bug.

If developers can add a bookmark, LingQ highlighting, count reading stats to edit sentence mode. It could be turned into an Advanced/Expert Sentence Mode.

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Hi everyone,
the issue with sentence mode freezing has been reported to our development team. We are working on it and we will push a fix soon. I appreciate all your feedback here.

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