XLingPaper version 3.15.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version
7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions
before 3.7.5, please see:
- Using
a new version of XeLaTeX; and
- Some
changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug
fixes.
The highlights of this version are:
- Add the SortReferences command to sort a references master
list file.
- Add the FindAnyDuplicateAuthors command to find any duplicate
authorRef elements.
- Enable links in web page output to open in a new tab.
- Add bookversion to book and collection reference elements.
- Allow framedUnit in a figure element.
- Add numeralFormat attribute to partLayout in publisher style
sheet to control numeral formatting of parts.
- Enable showing abbreviations as a table in a section1 element
and in a chapter element.
- Add useDigitsForEndnoteNumbering attribute to authorLayout
element so one can have footnotes on authors be numbered like
other footnotes.
If you have not previously installed XLingPaper, you can obtain an
installation program for Windows, Mac or Linux at
http://software.sil.org/xlingpaper/download/.
If you have already installed XLingPaper version 2.10.0 or higher
and merely want to upgrade, then you will need to download and
install the XLingPaper update file. See https://software.sil.org/xlingpaper/download/config-only/.
Be careful to get the installer for the version of the XMLmind XML
Editor you are using (it is possible to install both, if you
wish). If you have modified any of the stock publisher
style sheets, please be sure to make a backup of your work
before running this installer. It may overwrite your
modifications.
The recent changes are:
- 3.15.0 9 May 2024
- Add the SortReferences command to sort a references master
list file.
- Add the FindAnyDuplicateAuthors command to find any
duplicate authorRef elements.
- Enable links in web page output to open in a new tab.
- Add bookversion to book and collection reference elements.
- Allow framedUnit in a figure element.
- Add numeralFormat attribute to partLayout in publisher style
sheet to control numeral formatting of parts.
- Enable showing abbreviations as a table in a section1
element and in a chapter element.
- Add useDigitsForEndnoteNumbering attribute to authorLayout
element so one can have footnotes on authors be numbered like
other footnotes.
- Fix bug: in a chapters in collection document, the preface
style sheet information of the main front matter was always
used.
- Fix bug: promoting a section1 element to a chapter would
cause a validity error about two attributes being invalid.
- Fix typo in section 5.3.15 of the publisher style sheet
documentation.
- For the default way of producing PDF (via XeLaTeX):
- Add ability to control the number of PDF bookmark levels
to show by adding the bookmarksShowLevel attribute to the
contents element.
- Fix bug: for the non-style sheet output, paragraphs
after a numbered table would not be indented properly.
- Fix bug: index output could have unneeded blank space at
the end of a column or page when an index item had
embedded items.