The Digital Hub’s 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

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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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The latest Digital Hub update improves existing file checks and adds new checks that identify possible errors in tables of contents.

The new checks compare entries in the table of contents to the linked titles in the book. One check lists the first five potential text mismatches. The other reports the first five character style mismatches to help identify things like dropped or misapplied italics. To run the checks, convert a file with a TOC to ScML. Alternatively, upload an already linked ScML

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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.

Merge Documents

The Split Document tool has been renamed to Split/Merge and now includes this new tool. Use it to select a folder of files (or individual files in a folder, if on Windows) and merge them into one file.

Cleanup

• New options have been added to convert soft returns to hard returns and to autoscribe certain character styles.
• The dashes cleanup

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The latest change to the Digital Hub updates some metadata fields to match the current standards and pass multiple versions of the EPUBCheck validator. The Hub has been updated to use the latest version of EPUBCheck (version 5.2.1).

Additional Conformance Metadata

In addition to the ability to add a Conformance Description and a Certifying Organization to ebooks, projects that have both fields filled out can now include the following metadata:

• Certifier Credential: A credential or badge that

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An update has been released for the Digital Hub that fixes an accessibility issue reported by recent versions of the Ace by DAISY App (Ace App).

A small change in the Ace App last week resulted in a new “epub-pagesource” warning for books produced in the Digital Hub. This Hub update changes how print ISBNs are represented in the ePub’s OPF document in order to match the latest accessibility recommendations and to avoid the Ace App warning.

• Previous output: <dc:source id="src-id">urn:isbn:978

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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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