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  • Create pickups and footnotes on the fly

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    I want to be able to define the content of pickups and footnotes from within compose. Just let us define in the (CSS) style setup when an element starts and ends a pickup or footnote. Reasons for doing this: simplicity: This would take away the...

  • To increase the variable values for “!flag” to indicate different status of composition of the line.

    Simon Tung
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 4 Comments
    Currently "!flag" is used in the Xymacro to set the left margin note or the right margin note. Because of the limitation, when the left margin note <ufm1> margin888 <ufn> and right margin note <ufm> margin999 <ufn> are be set in the same line, only...

  • Text Mode - Saved text should appear identical after it is restored

    Lewis McCarty
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Working primarily in Text Mode, we use many restores daily, as templates (with placeholder text to be updated immediately after each restore). To help easily locate the content needing to be updated, we format the appearance of the text (Med, Bold,...

  • Ability to define priority for vertical and horizontal tabular rules in XPP

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Note: RFE has been submitted to SDL (CRQ #7903 for anyone else that would like to contribute their support) The RFE asked for the ability to set priority on both vertical and horizontal rules. The functionality requested is the ability to: set...

  • JavaScript as replacement for the macro language

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Yes we currently do have Perl as the default replacement for the XPP macro language when we are using CSS (and that is nice and works fine). But the natural companion to CSS is JavaScript and not Perl. So it makes a lot more sense to build the future...

  • Ability to call custom macro at start and end of an underline

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 2 Comments
    By marking the beginning and end of a section of text (perhaps covering several lines) and being able to define custom macro(s) to enable users to draw custom underlines. Ideally, the x/y co-ordinates of start and end underlines should be accessible...

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

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...

  • Implement a resource file for PathFinder

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...

  • PathFinder left/right panel sorting

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 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...

  • Logging master for XPP queues

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...