Redesign of the Digital Hub

The Digital Hub is undergoing a visual redesign to improve the user experience of the Well-Formed Document Workflow. This redesign aims to reduce the amount of scrolling, make navigation more intuitive, and make critical information and alerts more apparent to users.

• A new sidebar has been added to make navigation between different parts of the Hub easier.
• Projects will show conversion alerts in a pop-up window when file conversions are completed. These and all

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Throughout the winter, the Digital Hub has been updated to improve the quality of the files and reports it produces.

New Hub Checks

• Special Characters Issues: Several checks will warn about special Unicode characters that are often mistakenly used in place of much more common characters. These warnings provide recommendations about the best way to handle these characters within most projects.
• Table of Contents Link Order: ScML files with linked TOCs will warn when the order of the linked content

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A major update to the SAI and a minor update to the Scribe Tools for InDesign have been released. See the SAI installation and Scribe Tools documentation pages for instructions on updating or installing these packages.

SAI Updates

Check Title Case by Style

A new title case–checking tool has been added below the “Title Case” button in the SAI ribbon. This new tool checks all instances of selected ScML paragraph and character styles for title case conformance and adds comments to the document where

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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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