Updates to the Well-Formed Document Workflow

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January 06, 2025 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

A new update has been released for the Digital Hub. The update includes several feature updates to improve the accessibility of ebooks produced within the Well-Formed Document Workflow.

Long Description Linking

The conversion from sam to ScML will attempt to automatically link fighn to <longdescription> elements. The linking works by matching the fighn to the ah or figh1 paragraph. The figh1 or ah used in the long description will link back to the original figure.

Long descriptions that can’t

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October 10, 2024 Scribe Tools Update

By Scribe Inc.

Scribe has released a major update to Scribe Tools for InDesign featuring several new tools, improvements, and fixes.

New Tools

Anchor Boxes and Move Anchor

Two new tools, Anchor Boxes and Move Anchor, have been added under Typesetting Adjustments. These are meant for projects where specific paragraph styles have to be systematically moved from the main text flow into anchored text boxes.

  1. Create an anchored text box with the required anchoring placement settings and size.
  2. Select that anchored

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August 13, 2024 SAI Update

By Scribe Inc.

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

Cleanup

  • This tool will now give a warning when running rendering cleanups on a file with fields.
  • A bug where the content controls cleanup would not delete all content controls has been fixed.

Note Manager

  • Italics are now preserved when adding a-heads to notes.
  • The warnings will no longer incorrectly report different note numbering styles.

Restrict

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July 15, 2024 ScML Update

By Scribe Inc.

Scribe has released major updates to ScML and the Digital Hub. Dozens of new paragraph and character styles have been added to help format your publications, and the Digital Hub has added features to improve the accessibility of e-books produced.

Configuring/Installing Updates

All Well-Formed Document Workflow (WFDW) users will need to update their local resources in order to use the new ScML styles.

Log in to scribenet.com and go to the downloads page to access the updated tools and resources

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December 14, 2023 SAI Update

By Scribe Inc.

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

Check Hyphenated Terms

A Check Hyphenated Terms tool has been added under the Auto-Edit button in the SAI ribbon. This new tool checks the document for any hyphenated terms that also show up unhyphenated. It displays how many instances there are of each variation of a particular term and enables the user to adjust hyphenation either globally or for specific

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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.

Major Scribe Tools Updates

Scribe Tools contains a number of new tools.

  • Highlight Missing Soft Return Spaces: Applies a condition that highlights cases in which soft returns may be missing the required space before them or the space is on the wrong

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July 31, 2023 Digital Hub Update

By Scribe Inc.

Digital Hub ePub Accessibility Improvements

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.

Markup Improvements

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May 30, 2023 SAI Update

By Scribe Inc.

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

Change Base Font

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:

  • Impose on Selected Paragraphs: Select text in the paragraphs where you want to impose roman base font

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