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  • Ability to suppress computer generated text in either Line Editor or Text mode

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    There are times when a lot of text is being captured and it makes life very difficult for the operator (or Style Developer, debugging specs) when there is so much comp.gen. text in amongst tags, macros and 'real' data. Sometimes its very useful to have...

  • To provide a key function for multiple pages deletion in Xyview.

    Simon Tung
    • Not Considering
    • 1 Comment
    In the Softkey Select menu, currently there is no button to select multiple pages for Cut or Copy.

  • The ability to access tag/item format attribute values from the post-string field

    Thomas Mangan
    • Not Considering
    • 1 Comment
    In XPP Classic , there's no method of accessing the values of an item format attribute from the poststring field. If I have the following item format that's designed to output a rule as part of the poststring, I cannot "see" ruleAfter or the value of...

  • Implement a resource file for PathFinder

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    To be able to control appearance, position and any other configurable features of PathFinder via a resource file (aka XYwyg or .ini) Perhaps the 'configurable features' should be a separate idea post? At a minimum, such a file should enable the size...

  • Perl text capture with traces - import

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Not Considering
    • 0 Comments
    Currently, its possible to use the 'suppress' field and 't' options of the /Pb macro to capture text and pass to Perl. The 't' allows trace information to be sent to Perl as well. However, when sending data back to XPP the trace information is ignored...

  • PathFinder: Copy multiple tabular styles from JOB to library

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Not Considering
    • 1 Comment
    Currently, it requires multiple copy/paste actions to copy each tabular style from JOB to library level. It would be much more efficient to select 'Tabular' in the left panel of a selected JOB, and then be able to copy ALL tabular styles and paste them...

  • Adding support for runtime color specs

    Ravi Duvvuri
    • Not Considering
    • 3 Comments
    Currently, we are building the color spec based on pre-defined color information. Is there a way we can provide runtime support for colors. For ex: our input xml will contain the color information (cmyk or spot) at runtime and we would need to use that...

  • Logging master for XPP queues

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hello, A scenario popped up this morning where a developer enqueued something fort processing on the XPP server. Something wasn't right about the task and the user deleted/killed the task from the conshell. While this cleared the error, the detail...

  • MathML 3.0 support

    Simon Tung
    • Not Considering
    • 0 Comments
    As the MathML 3.0 2nd Edition has been released since 2014, and users start using the latest Math editors to create and format the math expressions, the support of the latest MathML 3.0 is desired.

  • PathFinder left/right panel sorting

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 2 Comments
    Currently its possible to sort the right panel by Date, ascending/descending. This is OK. However, the PathFinder doesn't appear to keep that sorting. Selecting a different item requires the sorting to be reapplied. Returning to a previously sorted...