Fonto 8.13 is here, and it’s a big one. This release introduces the public beta of Fonto Output, a long-awaited addition to the Fonto suite that brings high-quality document generation to your structured content workflows. Alongside this, we’ve delivered meaningful improvements across the board—from usability upgrades in Fonto Editor to better translation and metadata handling […]
Fonto 8.13: Hello, World – Meet Fonto Output Read More »
Last week, I attended the 47th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in Baltimore. As always, it was a great opportunity to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new voices in the field, and get a sense of where scholarly publishing is heading. One thing became abundantly clear across the three days: AI
AI is here to stay – and structured content is key to making it work Read More »
The past year has seen an explosion of interest in generative AI across scholarly publishing. Editorial teams, product leads, and technology partners are racing to test AI-driven tools for peer review, metadata enrichment, classification, and chatbots. But with this innovation has come fragmentation: disconnected pilots, brittle scripts, and inconsistent results. In his recent talk at
In today’s fast-paced business environment, product managers and decision-makers face tough choices when designing end-to-end solutions for structured content management. One such critical decision revolves around whether to build an XML editor from scratch or integrate a ready-made OEM solution. At Fonto, we believe the advantages of embedding an OEM XML editor far outweigh the
Why consider an OEM XML editor instead of building one yourself? Read More »
Yesterday, at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation titled “Revolutionizing Publishing with AI and Structured Content: Unlocking the Power of XML.” During this talk, I explored how structured content serves as the essential foundation for feeding AI models, and why the old adage “garbage in, garbage out” is particularly true
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In today’s digital age, the way we manage and utilize information has evolved dramatically. Conventionally, document content is unstructured, with text, figures, and tables that authors can freely arrange in the way they want to. By structuring content, we can shift from a document-based to a content and data-based approach. But what exactly is structured
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In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer reached out! They have a modal that manages a prolog: it can either insert a new prolog, or it can edit one.
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer reached out with a question we get more often: how do I build the indent / outdent feature you have in the
Fonto Why and How: How do I indent my content? Read More »
In this weekly series, Martin describes a question raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week is a follow-up to an earlier blog post on dealing with large documents! How did we chunk megabytes of XML?! This post is a follow-up to
Fonto Why & How: How to chunk a single XML file like NISO-STS or JATS Read More »
We are present at ISO’s Annual Meeting, a meeting for all standards developing bodies worldwide. For the first time this year, the event is open to other organizations and companies that work with standards developing bodies. Against the spectacular backdrop of downtown Abu Dhabi, four full days of meetings, discussions and networking events are taking
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