If you’re thinking about the adoption of a structured authoring tool like FontoXML, you should read the article on this topic by Barry Schaeffer (2013). In this article Barry, a veteran of more than 45 years in the content automation industry, not only describes the ‘tortured relationship’ between Word and XML (we also wrote about […]
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For the second time this month I’ve heard a prospect say “we want to move away from the Microsoft Word process”. In other words: the Word based authoring process, at this standardisation organisation, is far from efficient and has some serious quality issues. There’s little content reuse with large compliancy issues as a result. There’s
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FontoXML 6.6.0 is now available and we’ve worked hard on some features we would like to tell you a bit more about. New highlight models In several parts of the FontoXML UI we’ve added new ways to display the context of where your authors are going perform any actions. When hovering over the breadcrumb path
Prospects want to know what they’re buying. They want to be sure that the software they’re interested in, will actually do the job to be done. So we’ve developed the FontoXML Sandbox in which you can play around on request. If you’re really serious about it, we’ll even set up a ‘private sandbox’ using your
Resolved issues The editor is now more responsive while searching in large documents. Using multiple indices based on the same attribute with different values, or based on different attributes with no values no longer yields incorrect results. Xpath selectors using predicates in combination with anything other than a node name or ‘*’ test no longer
Comments that are not editable now show a View button instead of Edit, to allow access to the full comment text.
An issue that caused an unexpected ordering of the content of merged cells has been resolved. The visual contrast between the various states of buttons has been improved. The appearance of disabled buttons no longer changes when hovering the mouse pointer over them. When creating or viewing a reference to an inline element, the element
Resolved issues The cursor no longer jumps to the start of the document when right-clicking an image. Changing the xml:lang attribute now correctly updates spelling suggestions. References that can not be resolved can now be deleted correctly. Continued typing before a lock request fails no longer causes many errors to appear in the browser console.
Resolved issues If the CMS requires more than 4 seconds to handle a lock request and the application is using optimistic locking, FontoXML could send an autosave for a locked document. This has been resolved.
Resolved issues The latest release of the node-sass library (3.5.1) contains an issue which makes it incompatible with the FontoXML platform stylesheets. This release forces the older 3.4.2 version to be used instead. For other FontoXML releases, manually run npm install node-sass@3.4.2 as a workaround. Due to a regression in 6.2.0, moving the cursor away
