An update to the Digital Hub has been released that features a new conversion, new settings, updated file checks, and several small improvements and fixes.

ScML to Reprocessed ScML Conversion

A new conversion option in the Digital Hub allows users to reprocess an existing ScML file with different conversion settings. Users can adjust certain Hub conversion options when a project’s requirements change after the ScML file has been created. The following settings can be configured during reprocessing

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An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.

New Autoscribe Styles Tool

This is a new tool for automatically scribing styles throughout a file based on paragraph formatting, style, or text.

• The Paragraph Search tab will find the next non-ScML paragraph, check its formatting, and enable applying an ScML style to all paragraphs with matching formatting.
• The Common Styles tab includes autoscribing

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Language Scribing Improvements

Changes throughout Scribe Tools for InDesign now enable the use of additional language codes. The update expands language scribing support to hyphenated codes and codes with capital letters. This change makes it possible to use detailed language subtags throughout the workflow.

This is especially critical to accurately scribe transliterated languages. For example, Russian text in Cyrillic can be differentiated from Russian text that has been transliterated into the

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An update to the SAI and SAI Lite has been released. See the About the SAI documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.

Add Language Style

This new tool is available in the Load ScML Styles dropdown. Use it to create an ScML style with language metadata for language scribing. Choose a base ScML style, add an appropriate language code, and apply the style immediately or add it to the file for later use.

Improvements

• Plain text to embedded note conversions can now

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The latest Digital Hub update improves the Hub’s language-scribing features.

• The Scribe Language Styles setting will no longer tag Latin-script text. Its accuracy has been improved for identifying languages that do not use Latin-based scripts.
• Greek and Hebrew language codes will now be automatically added to text with Greek and Hebrew ScML styles. The Hub will add “el” for grc styles, “he” for heb styles, “el-Latn” for tgrc styles, and “he-Latn” for theb styles.
• A few bugs with paragraph

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The latest update continues to improve the accessibility of ebooks produced within the Digital Hub.

These updates require an essential CSS update to avoid display issues. For all projects, download the latest default.css to use with any ePub created in the Digital Hub.

Alternatively, those who are using custom CSS files can update their files by adding the following two lines:

span.bk, span.bk1, span.bk2, span.bkht, span.bksect, span.cn, span.ct, span.ctbm, span.ctfm, span.pn, span.pt, span.un

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The latest major Scribe Tools update introduces several new features and options and reorganizes the menus to make tools easier to find and run as a unit. Several tools have been moved to the Review submenu.

New Tools

• Highlight Breaking Heteronyms: Highlights a handful of words that can potentially break at different places depending on the part of speech (pro-ject vs. proj-ect).
• Highlight Selected Breaking Words: Highlights selected words that break across lines to identify instances of incorrect

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An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with Merge Documents not preserving styles on Mac
• Fixed a bug with applying title case near the start of a file
• Fixed a bug with converting embedded notes that follow a table at the end of a file
• Fixed a bug with converting embedded symbol style notes to plain text
• Fixed a bug with using Associate Styles with fast style lookup

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