Main Page Refresh

You might notice that the main page looks a bit different. That's because Blogger (owned by Google) changed the way their service works. The details are unimportant, but for the most part, I think, the site should basically look and act the same.

If the site looks weird to you, try holding the [SHIFT] key while pressing the "reload" or "refresh" icon in your web browser. That will bypass your browser's cache and force it to load a new copy of the website.

If it still doesn't look right, please contact me using the contact page.

Visual Refresh

This isn't the prettiest site in the world -- I admit. It's meant to be functional. Still, I sometimes think it could look better, so I spent a few minutes today sprucing it up. Hopefully I didn't break anything.

News is slow -- for most schools around the U.S., winter break is upon us. With students taking a break, the site is also slowing down. Hopefully when you all return from break there will be some interesting new features and bug fixes!

Happy break.

Interface Changes, Keyboard Shortcuts and the Ancient Passive Infinitive

I made a couple of small changes to the search interface, mostly by adding keyboard shortcuts:

• When you visit the page, the cursor is automatically placed in the search box. Just start typing because there's no need to click on the search box!
• You can press the up and down arrows to scroll through the list.
• You can press the enter key to view a word.
  

I will also duplicate these changes on the English to Latin search page.

Next I coded an inflectional ending for the "ancient passive infinitive" in -ier. Lucretius is fond of using words like vocārier instead of vocarī (Allen and Greenough, New Latin Grammar, 183.4).