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.

SAI Update

Compose Index Fields Cleanup Option

This new cleanup option can be used to compose index fields that have been previously added to a document using Word’s indexing

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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.

New Features

Review Style Construction

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:

• styles with both superscript/subscript and baseline shift
• styles with italic

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The latest Digital Hub update continues to improve the accessibility of Hub-produced e-books to conform to accessibility standards and the expectations of various publishing platforms. The following markup will be automatically applied to correctly composed ePub 3 files.

• Paragraphs composed as sec will have the aria-hidden attribute set in order to prevent assistive technologies from reading decorative punctuation marks aloud.
• Various text styles associated with figures (e.g., figh, figh1,

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The latest Digital Hub update includes updates to maintain the accessibility and conformity of Hub-produced e-books. In addition to these major updates, a number of minor bug fixes and improvements have been made to improve the user experience.

Update Accessibility

The doc-endnotes and doc-biblioentry DPUB-ARIA roles will no longer be used for ePubs produced by the Digital Hub. This matches the latest recommendations for creating accessible ePubs and will ensure the fewest number of warnings generated

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The latest WFDW update makes several changes to improve the accessibility of ePubs produced by the Digital Hub.

Deprecation of the Mobi File Format

On March 1, the Digital Hub will no longer produce Mobi files. Amazon no longer expects these files to be provided as part of the publication and distribution process. Amazon recommends opening ePub files in Kindle Previewer to see how these e-books will appear on Kindle devices. The e-book section of the files tab within projects will continue to warn

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The latest update for the Scribe Tools for InDesign includes several new tools for identifying potential typesetting quality issues, modifying InDesign settings, and working with blind endnotes. More information about these tools and their various configuration options can be found on our Scribe Tools documentation page.

Highlight Stacks

Highlight potential word and character stacks with a review-stacks condition. The tool identifies potential word and character stacks between lines. There are

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The latest Digital Hub update includes new conversion options and improvements to the accessibility and file-checking capabilities.

New Features

• Word documents with tracked changes uploaded to the Digital Hub will generate a warning.
• A new Reletter Footnotes by Chapter conversion option will iterate note numbers and references on a per chapter basis starting with the letter A.

Routine ePub Checking and Accessibility Improvements

• The version of epubcheck, the industry-standard ePub validator

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The latest update for the Scribe Tools for InDesign includes new features and options. The update also includes a number of fixes and improvements meant to address edge cases and prevent unexpected warnings and errors.

Review tocnum

Cross-reference numbers composed as tocnum on the TOC page against the pages to confirm whether the expected chapter-opening paragraph style is present. The tool does not check that the TOC text matches the chapter header, merely that the page number indicated by the

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