Release notes Skribenta Web
Previously a link was typically created by opening the link panel and clicking the Browse buttons in the link panel to select a file and an id.
Now the process can be the other way around.
Select the target by copying it to the clipboard
The target can be a file and something having an id
Select some words and open the link panel
The text fields in the panel will be initiated with values from the clipboard.
Click Apply and the link will be created
The item names in the popup panel are slightly changed: The element name always comes first followed by other information
The Flex element names (document, part, section, list, and listitem) come first. The class name or other information comes last.
This makes the popups easier to read.
The table cell now has a toolbar.
The prime reason for having the toolbar is access to the attributes.
The toolbar for Publication groups has a new Publications button:
Clicking the button will present the complete structure below the group:
Here you can select the publications you want to be published.
A checkbox will select or unselect the publication or group:
Here, the "Skribenta CCMS" group and the "Customization" publication have been selected.
Publishing to HTML enables user manuals to be accessed over the Internet. In different support cases, a reference to a particular section in a manual will be sent to the end-user. This enforces all sections to have an id because you don't know in advance which sections will be referenced. When the user manual is updated and published again it is vital that old references still are valid. During publishing, a number of master files are the bases for the final HTML tree. The XML id in a master file must therefore be globally unique to make an unambiguous reference.
These requirements are the reasons behind the "Automatic ids" function. This function will automatically create a globally unique id in every section. The ids are also applied to tables, figure wrappers, block wrappers, and the maintitle element.
The ids are applied whenever the files are saved.
A master file must have an option set for this to happen:
The unique id is a combination of "G", the logical name, an underscore "_", and a running number.
Example: G401536_12
The example wrapper is by default expanded when it is presented.
This is the content in an example wrapper.
In Skribenta Web a661 we did this change:
The workspace edition is presented as the publication version because expanding a Publication will open the master file in the current workspace edition.
It was confusing when a frozen publication edition was presented.
Now we change it back to what it was before, i.e. the publication edition is presented
When you expand the publication you will see the current master file and recipe versions in the workspace.
This is not perfect but it was even more confusing not to see the publication-edition. Maybe the edition should be blue to indicate that something in the publication is checked out?!
In Skribenta Web a700 we made double click inside a title also select a word. This function has been removed.
Double-clicking a title for expanding or compressing it is so frequent - selecting a word every time attracts the attention too much.
Maybe a word should be selected if you hold down SHFT at the same time.
The View button is now auto-expanded when the Publish panel is presented.
The publish panel "remembers" the previous settings so most often you only have to press Start. Then it is convenient to view the list of publications and have the View buttons presented.
CTRL-p is now a shortcut key for opening the publish panel for the current publication.
The caret can be anywhere in some master file or included module - Skribenta finds the publication above and opens the panel.
The table with shortcut keys inside Help has been updated. The table is complete and it is sorted by key names.
The no-break-space (NBS) character (or solid space) was presented as a degree character.
The Degree could be very confusing, especially if you need an NSB together with a temperature. Now we are using the Macron character:
13 °C
A real Macron character is hopefully not used very often in master files.
When you move the mouse, some "extra information" is presented in the top-right corner, for instance, the Unicode value for a character.
Now it will also present the name of the character if it is a kind of special character.
Here you have the Greek letter theta 'θ'. Hovering over the letter will present
Element = paragraph
Char: θ, Greek letter theta
Unicode: 952
The extra information is also presented when you are moving the caret with the keyboard keys.
Some of the View options have got a shortcut key, based on how often they are used (according to our estimation)
There is a new view option for condensed memory blocks. It is related to the presentation of Translation memory blocks.
The toolbars for paragraphs and titles have a Similar button.
The button now presents similar blocks in the new Translation memory block format. If I for instance write the text
dryer tumble
I get many similar blocks:
Some explanations:
It is looking for English blocks since the master file is English
The block contains 3 translations and thus 4 languages including the English one
Clicking the All button will present all languages:
The English and Slovenian blocks were saved in the memory version a27
You can click on the Sim button to find similar blocks for a particular text and language
Clicking on Use will close the panel and replace the content in your paragraph or title with the memory content
When you are writing text in a master file it is a good idea to look in the memory to see if something similar has been written. You can just write some words, find a similar paragraph, and use it which will save you time.
If it has been translated, reusing it will also save money.
You can pin the paragraph toolbar and let the Similar button find similar paragraphs while you are writing:
If the caret is standing at the beginning of a body part element and you want to expand a section being the first child, the operation failed with a message "Already expanded".
Now it checks if something is expandable next to the caret.
When spanning a cell downwards, the next row could become empty with no cells. This would create an invisible row and result in strange behavior.
The operation is now inhibited so the situation cannot occur anymore.
When a file is downloaded, all files are first saved. Previously a downloaded file could be an old copy.
The toolbar for images was not presented in block mode. Now it is.