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More on working with frames

• You can scroll the content of a frame with the mouse wheel, and you don't have to select the frame first. The frame will automatically be selected as the current one with its caret.

• The background colour inside the frames is a very light grey. This makes it possible to know where a file or an image is ended visually

• When hovering over the vertical frame separators, they are wider to make them easier to grab

• When moving the caret inside the Tools items, the source in the current frame is indicated by a dashed border. This makes it clear which object will be affected by the tool. Here, the Copy section is the current section.

  

  Here, the caret is moved down to the title:

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The online Help

Clicking the Help aspect button or pressing the F1 button will present a context-sensitive help in the Help tab inside the Tools frame. In this example, the caret was standing inside a paragraph:

You can dig into all the details by expanding sections and following links.

The Help information is fetched from the Skribenta Help server. The instructions will be updated regularly so you will always get the latest help.

The information presented will correspond to the Skribenta version you are currently running.

Presentation of Flex

There are some improvements to the Flex XML presentation:

• The different part elements (frontmatter, body, endmatter) are styled, making it easier to see where you are. The id presentation on the body part is also improved - previously it was "competing" with an id on the first child section.

  

• The list item element has got an icon

  

• The caret positions at the start and end of a list have been improved:

  

  

• List item bullets and numbers are now visible when the items are selected:

  

• The type attribute is now presented in a unit phrase:

  

Spell check

Spellcheck with LanguageTool is now supported as an alternative to Grammarly. This means:

• More languages can be checked:

  Arabic, Asturian, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Australian English, Canadian English, GB English, New Zealand English, South African English, US English, Esperanto, French, Galician, Austria-German, Germany-German, Swiss German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Persian, Polish, Angola Portuguese, Brazil Portuguese, Moçambique Portuguese, Portugal Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukrainian;

• Text is not sent to the USA which some companies don't like

• There are no Grammarly integration problems (e.g. spell checking the text in panel buttons)

To activate spellchecking you need to do the following:

• Specify the languages you want to check inside Configure:

  

  Specifying just one language and "en" indicates you still want to use Grammarly

• Make sure the Spellcheck option in the document element is On

  

• The file must have a flag

  

When you expand into a file and spellcheck is activated, the whole file will be checked - not just the visible text.

The number of mistakes in the file will be indicated beside the document element in Tools.

In this case, it is 13 mistakes in the file. The number will be continuously updated when you are editing the file.

Clicking on the number will find the next mistake.

The visible mistakes will be underlined in different colours:

• Red

  

  A spelling mistake can be an unknown word for LanguageTool and can be added to a dictionary.

• Yellow

  

• Blue

  

Search

The Search aspect panels have been slightly revised:

Clicking on the Advanced button will add more search options:

• You can search for files having a property name, a property value, or a combination

• You can search for files having a name, an extension, or a combination

• You can search for a file having an id (the logical name) or an index (ix).

  

  The search result will tell you which one, in this case, the id

  

• Each word in a file name is indexed. If searching for the word "with" you can get this hit:

  

  You can have more complicated search patterns, like:

  

  This will find the same file as above because the file name contains all the words "progress", "warnings", and "Server"

File Tags

A Tags property has been introduced on files to improve searching and to get better search results.

Let's say you have a massive amount of images and you want to tag them with some appropriate categories. This process can now be supported by customized panels.

Here is an example for images:

You can then type in some unique tags for the image and select the appropriate categories:

In the Search panel, you select the tags you want to search for

The query resulted in one hit:

The search result presents all tags matching the query, in this case, 2 out of 6 tags.

You can set the Tags property on a file by clicking on the Tags button in a file toolbar:

A panel will be presented, containing radio buttons and checkboxes. The panel can be different for different resource types, e.g. images and master files.

This is a panel example for master files:

The panel definition for different resource types is set in a parent folder. This makes it possible to have different panels for different files in different contexts.

Here's a definition example:

The syntax for the definition is as follows:

• A semicolon ';' is separating different lines in the panel

• The prefix "R:" specifies radio buttons. The names inside the parenthesis will be the radio buttons inside one radio button group.

• The prefix "C:" specifies a checkbox.

Image zoom

Studying the images inside developed manuals is an essential part of the job for a technical writer. You often want to zoom in on details or quickly browse through all the images in your manual. This job is now supported in the UI.

Let's say you have this paragraph and image inside your manual:

Expanding the image will present it at full width:

Clicking inside the expanded image will update the Tools and add a Zoom button:

The Zoom button will create a view, showing only the image:

You are now in Zoom mode.

The Zoom button is expanded to a Zoom panel:

The panel contains five items:

• The Scale indicates how much the image has been scaled

• The Scale Mode, in this case, Fit, specifies how the image shall be scaled

• The position of the current Image (3) and the total amount of images (8) in the file

• Move to the Previous image in the file

• Move to the Next image in the file

The Mode button brings up this panel:

The meaning of the options is:

• Fit: The image will be scaled, so it fits in the available window space, both horizontally and vertically

• Height: The image will be scaled, so the image height is equal to the available window height

• Width: The image will be scaled, so the image width is equal to the available window width

• Actual: The image will not be scaled

• Fullscreen: The image will be presented in full-screen mode

You can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, and you can move the image by clicking and dragging

If you click on the image, you can use Page up and down to step between the images.

Click on the Zoom button again or press Escape to leave the Zoom mode.

The images included inside the Zoom mode differ depending on the Zoom context:

• If you expand an image inside a file. all images in the file are included

• If you expand an image inside a folder, all images in the folder are included

• If you expand an image in a search result, all images in the result are included

For example, here we have searched for all jpg images where the file name starts with "de":

One of the 36 images found is the Desert image:

Clicking on Zoom will present this panel:

Now you can quickly browse through the 36 files in the search result and investigate them one by one

State handling in Translation

The Status button in the Job Process toolbar in a Translation or Improvement project has got a new design and extended functionality.

The colour and position will indicate the current state of the job in the process

Here is a complete process:

• When a Job is created (or analyzed/queried and it contains no blocks) it will look like this:

  

• After an Analyze or a Query and the job contains blocks it will look like this:

  

  if no blocks are found, the state will not change.

• If you click on Send you will get an alert:

  

• After clicking on Update, you can click on Send again. Then you will get this:

  

• After clicking on Receive and pointing to a translated file you get this:

  

• After clicking on Update you get this:

  

• Finally, you can click on Close to indicate the job is done

  

A project file typically contains many jobs. The state of the project as a whole is considered to be the state for the job, being in the earliest stage in the process. If all jobs are in the Updated state except one, which is in the Sent state, the project state will be Sent.

The project state is indicated in the list of projects:

You can quickly identify projects, for example, waiting for translation jobs to be received.

File locking

A very annoying bug has finally been fixed. From time to time you could not edit a file because it was being locked by yourself. You then had to do a Forced unlock to be able to continue editing.

If you reload the page or close the browser and you have any locked or unsaved files, you will be asked for a confirmation:

However, the files are automatically saved and unlocked when the panel is opened, so the question is in fact not necessary - you can safely reload the site.

A file might be locked by yourself for real if you are editing it in another browser or in another tab. You will now get a more elaborate warning:

New shortcut keys

Some shortcut keys have been added:

• Ctrl+M

  This shortcut key presents the current file or folder in a new tab. The function is sometimes referred to as Maximize

  The caret position inside expansions is maintained afterwards

• Ctrl+Q

  This shortcut key closes the current tab

• Ctrl+Insert

  This shortcut key works the same as Ctrl+C (Copy)

• Shift+Insert

  This shortcut key works the same as Ctrl+V (Paste)

• Shift+Delete

  This shortcut key works the same as Ctrl+X (Cut)

Horizontal alignment

The horizontal alignment can now be set with the H-align button in the Format toolbar (which you will find inside the section, wrapper, list, table, and paragraph toolbars):

Clicking on H-align will bring up this popup:

Embedded images

If you have a lot of embedded images (e.g. screenshots) in a file, it may increase in size considerably and the loading time will increase. You can solve the problem by saving each embedded image as a separate file.

However, if the file contains many embedded images that will take time. Now you can save all embedded images in one operation by checking a checkbox in the panel:

Table head

When you have a table in your master file, it will have a table head in most cases.

When creating a table, it will now contain a table head by default. It is a quick operation to remove it if not wanted.