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[ANN] Oxygen Content Fusion version 5.0 is now available!
by Alin Belu 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hello, We are proud to announce the immediate availability of *Oxygen Content Fusion version 5.0*, the ultimate web collaboration solution! *Version 5.0* of *Oxygen Content Fusion* is the latest release for the innovative collaboration platform that is designed to improve any documentation review process. Some of the most interesting features added in the latest version include a new *Search side-view* that enables searches throughout all files in a task, various *user interface improvements* that offer Content Fusion a more modern look and feel, and the ability to *mention other collaborators* in review comments. The embedded visual editor that is based upon *Oxygen XML Web Author* technology was updated to include the new features and improvements that were added in the recently released Web Author 24.1.0. Some of its most important additions include *performance optimizations for the concurrent editing* feature and a new *Find/Replace tab* that makes it possible to see all search results without needing to scroll through the document. Also, it is now possible for technical writers to open files sent for review directly from Oxygen XML Editor/Author to make changes or to apply a transformation scenario on the DITA map. To this end, new actions were introduced in Oxygen XML Editor/Author that enable you to *open task files or the context map* specified for a task. To further improve the user experience, version 5.0 also includes numerous important component updates. For more information about Oxygen Content Fusion and more details of what was added in this version, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html We hope you will enjoy our latest release of Oxygen Content Fusion! As always, feedback is welcome! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Important tip when using Oxygen XML
by Roger L Costello 16 May '22

16 May '22

Hi Folks, I love the "Format and Indent" button in Oxygen. But it has a gotcha! It replaces multiple spaces in your data with a single space. For example, in my XML document it changed this: <TRM_IDENT>GBE6 BELGRANO 6</TRM_IDENT> to this: <TRM_IDENT>GBE6 BELGRANO 6</TRM_IDENT> See the change in the data? GBE6 BELGRANO 6 GBE6 BELGRANO 6 Now you might think, "Well, what's the big deal? Why does it matter that Oxygen discarded a few spaces?" Actually, it is a huge deal! In my use case, I have a program which checks that the TRM_IDENT value matches every TRM_IDENT value in another XML file that had not been formatted by Oxygen. My program kept returning an error saying that the values don't match. It took me many hours to find the problem: Oxygen changed the data in the first file. I did some research and found that Oxygen has a way to specify that space is to be preserved during a format and indent operation: Preferences/Editor/Format/XML click on "Preserve text as it is". If you're using Oxygen, I recommend that you open it up right now and click on that option. If you don't, then one day you might run into the same situation and waste many hours trying to figure out why things aren't working. /Roger

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Git an Oxy XPR project files
by Franz-Josef Knelangen 12 May '22

12 May '22

Hi there, recently we went form SVG to Git. We don't want to commit the XPR every time but we also want to have project settings for the team. How do you handle this? - Don't push the XPR? - Put the XPR in the stash and let it stay there until a project setting is changed, push the change and back to stash again? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Greetings Franz-Josef AKG Software Consulting GmbH Franz-Josef Knelangen Uhlandstra?e 12 79423 Heitersheim Germany Tel.: +49 (0)7634 5612-611 Fax: +49 (0)7634 5612-300 E-Mail: fjk(a)akgsoftware.de Internet: www.akgsoftware.de<http://www.akgsoftware.de> Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Dipl.-Ing. Artur K. G?nther, Dipl.-Ing. Arno Br?ggemann, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Feser, Dipl.-Ing. Jens G?nther Sitz der Gesellschaft: Heitersheim, HRB 310383 (Amtsgericht Freiburg)

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Oxygen holds cut text for a long time - impressive!
by Roger L Costello 12 May '22

12 May '22

I have several tabs open. One tab contains a text file. I cut some text. Then I did another cut. And a few more. Then I went to the other tabs and did a bunch of work on the data in them - cutting, pasting, moving things around. I did this for a couple hours. Then I went back to the first tab. I was curious to see if the cut text was still hanging around, so I did Ctrl-Z. Wow! The last cut text reappeared. I did another Ctrl-Z and the second-to-last cut text reappeared. Another Ctrl-Z and the third-to-last cut text reappeared. That is impressive! Great work Oxygen team. /Roger

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Spell checker doesn't resolve path to learned words file
by Franz-Josef Knelangen 10 May '22

10 May '22

Hi there, [Oxy 24.1 on Win11, DITA project] our learned words are set to a custom folder in a git project: [cid:image001.png@01D863B2.00C4DDE0] In the options, the path is set to: [cid:image002.png@01D863B2.C52A4580] Inside the XPR, it looks OK: <entry> <String>spell.check.learned.words.custom.folder</String> <String>${git(working_copy_path)}\DITA\learnedWords</String> </entry> But when I try to add/learn a new word during spellcheck in Oxy, I get this: [cid:image003.png@01D863B2.C52A4580] Any clue how to get this working again? - before Git, in SVN, we only used ${pd}, and this worked. Greetings, Franz-Josef AKG Software Consulting GmbH Franz-Josef Knelangen Uhlandstra?e 12 79423 Heitersheim Germany Tel.: +49 (0)7634 5612-611 Fax: +49 (0)7634 5612-300 E-Mail: fjk(a)akgsoftware.de Internet: www.akgsoftware.de<http://www.akgsoftware.de> Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Dipl.-Ing. Artur K. G?nther, Dipl.-Ing. Arno Br?ggemann, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernhard Feser, Dipl.-Ing. Jens G?nther Sitz der Gesellschaft: Heitersheim, HRB 310383 (Amtsgericht Freiburg)

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