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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 multiple lines. Enter a list of words, each on its own line. The tool will highlight and report any instances of the word that break across lines. You can also enter the accepted break points as hyphens in the following pattern in order to cut down on the number of words that must be reviewed. For example, entering “breaking (break-ing)” on its own line will report brea-king but not break-ing.
- Highlight All Typography Issues: Runs all typography highlighting tools in succession.
Tool Improvements
Rebreak URLs
Several new options have been added to this tool to accommodate URLs.
- Apply "url" style only to strings starting with http or www: This is a more scaled-back version of the Apply "url" style to all unscribed url-like text. Words or phrases with periods in the middle are sometimes scribed as url in that setting, but those are valid codes in certain legal books or titles. Those titles may benefit from this new setting. In addition, the original setting has been improved to cut back on some overreach.
- Apply "url-anchortext" to anchor text (these will not rebreak): The url style can be used in ScML for both naked hyperlinks (e.g., <url>scribenet.com</url>) and for hyperlinks with dedicated anchor text (e.g., <url href="scribenet.com">the Scribe website</url>). If your title contains both types, you will only want to apply breaking rules to the former. Selecting this option will convert the latter Scribe URL styles to an alt style that is not affected by the breaking rules.
- Apply changes to selection only: This setting will apply changes only to the selected text instead of the entire document.
Applying the url style using this tool will now also apply url-b to b, url-i to i, and url-bi to bi wherever appropriate.
Apply Breaking Rules
- Prevent around ellipsis: Now also avoids breaks in the words around bracketed ellipses.
- Forms of address: Now avoids breaks between the abbreviation Saint (St.) and a name following.
- Prevent breaking between Bible book number and name: Now avoids breaks after several Bible book abbreviations that were missing.
- Select Spanish phrases: Now avoids additional breaks.
Review Style Construction
- Font weight mismatches between paragraph and character styles will no longer be reported for bold ScML styles and will instead be reported when they match. These will be reported as “(bold in bold)” to indicate that an intended font weight difference may be absent. The hemb/chemb styles will be reported when there is a difference in neither italics nor font weight.
- Checks will include master pages and footnotes where they were previously ignored.
Convert Footnotes/Endnotes
In the past, periods used as separators in the Document Footnote Options were not preserved as part of the export process. The updated tools will now preserve a period. Additional fixes in the Digital Hub are meant to improve the handling of periods in fnnum throughout the workflow.
Embedded footnotes should always use the separator field in the Document Footnote Options to adjust any character between a note number and the note text itself. Embedded footnotes should not use live text punctuation and nested styles to fulfill this purpose.
Load DTD
Previously, if a DTD was already loaded into the document, this step would not try to load the sam DTD. Now this tool will overwrite the DTD using the settings determined by Set/Reset sam DTD Location. This applies to several steps that load the DTD in order to work, such as List Unmappable Styles. This should reduce the chance of files having out-of-date DTDs attached to them, which can interfere with style mapping and reporting.
Additional Changes
- Add Cover Page: The tool now presents an easy opportunity to add alt text for the added cover page image. If the book title was already set by Set Metadata, a default entry will automatically be filled in. Set Metadata has been moved earlier in the Web PDF menu, reflecting the change in the order these steps should be run.
- Remove Presentation Alt Text: This will now automatically change the alt text source in the object export options to Decorative Image (no alt text).
- Highlight Stacks: Improves stack detection around parentheses, quotes, and em dashes.
Bug Fixes
- Add Language Attributes: Fixed issue that caused language attributes to be dropped for language character styles at the start of a paragraph.
- Center and Align Decimal Cell Content: Fixed how this tool handles cells with numbers but no period and cells that begin with a decimal point.
- Remove Table Paragraph Style: Fixed issue that allowed character styles to stay applied to tables during export.
- List Unmappable Styles/Map Styles: Improved warning text and error handling.
- Generate Hyperlinks, Rebreak URLs, and Convert Footnotes: Fixed a bug in several tools that caused certain processes to miss URLs in footnotes. In the worst-case scenario, it was possible to lose href data on URLs in footnotes during conversion to XML.