Latest Releases
The Digital Hub and Scribe Tools for InDesign both received an update this week. The Scribe Tools update contains several new tools, while both updates look to improve how language metadata is handled throughout the Well-Formed Document Workflow.
Scribe Tools contains a number of new tools.
Several accessibility improvements have been made to ePubs produced in the Digital Hub. Many of these improvements will be applied automatically to all ePub 3 books produced in the Hub, while others need to be specified in the Hub project record to be included in the output.
Reflecting the growing importance of accessibility in digital publishing, accessibility metadata has been moved into its own dedicated tab on the project page.
An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.
The Change Base Font tool has been added next to the “Cleanup” button in the SAI ribbon. This tool imposes roman base font on text so that italic text becomes roman and roman text becomes italic. There are two ways to apply this change:
The Digital Hub is undergoing a visual redesign to improve the user experience of the Well-Formed Document Workflow. This redesign aims to reduce the amount of scrolling, make navigation more intuitive, and make critical information and alerts more apparent to users.
Throughout the winter, the Digital Hub has been updated to improve the quality of the files and reports it produces.
A major update to the SAI and a minor update to the Scribe Tools for InDesign have been released. See the SAI installation and Scribe Tools documentation pages for instructions on updating or installing these packages.
A new title case–checking tool has been added below the “Title Case” button in the SAI ribbon. This new tool checks all instances of selected ScML paragraph and character styles for title case conformance and adds comments to the document where
Major updates to the SAI and SAI Lite have been released, improving the tools available for Workflow subscribers and authors who work with WFDW publishers. Scribe continues to work toward support for more dynamic embedded indexes. Installation instructions for either package can be found on our installation documentation page.
This new cleanup option can be used to compose index fields that have been previously added to a document using Word’s indexing
A new update of the Scribe Tools for InDesign is now available. Information about all of our tools can be found on our Scribe Tools documentation page.
Checks several aspects of a style and potential combinations of character/paragraph styles and reports potential issues in the setup and interaction between styles. Issues that are reported on each style include the following: