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April 26, 2022 Scribe Tools Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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April 22, 2022 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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March 4, 2022 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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January 19, 2021 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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December 17, 2020 Scribe Tools Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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September 2, 2020 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

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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July 20, 2020 Major SAI Lite Update

By Scribe Inc.

A major update of the SAI Lite has been released that fundamentally alters this free version of the SAI software. Because the SAI Lite was developed independently from the SAI, previous versions had different menus and tool functionality. We have rewritten the SAI Lite so that the user experience now mirrors the full SAI. While the expansive reporting and cleanup tools of the full SAI remain exclusive features for our Well-Formed Document Workflow (WFDW) subscribers, this new SAI Lite offers users

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