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[Ann] Version 2.5.0 of the Oxygen Git Client add-on is released!
by Alin Belu 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hello, We are excited to announce the release of Oxygen Git Client add-on version 2.5.0! This add-on is compatible with Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 21.1 or higher. Some of the most important features found in the newest version of the add-on were also some of the most requested, such as the improvements made for when working with submodules: * After a repository that contains submodules is cloned, all submodules are also automatically initialized and cloned. * When pulling the remote changes for a repository that contains submodules, the submodules are updated as well (by default). This behavior depends on the Update all submodules after pulling changes from the remote repository option from the Git Client preferences page in Oxygen. * If a submodule appears as changed in the Unstaged files area, you can open it using the Open action from the contextual menu. * The tooltip shown for a modified submodule from the Unstaged files area now presents information about the currently and previously tracked commits. Other improvements added in version 2.5.0 of the Oxygen Git Client add-on that expand its functionality even further include: * The addition of a new field in the login dialog box for authentication using a personal access token. Note that from August 13, 2021, GitHub will no longer accept password-based authentication (https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-op…) * Branches created from other local branches are now automatically checked out. This behavior can be disabled by deselecting the Checkout branch option in the Create branch dialog box. * The Git Staging side-view has been slightly redesigned and now has a cleaner look. * Added support for Dutch localization. * Fixed an issue where debugging the Git Client using Apache Log4j did not work. * Fixed an issue where opening submodules that required authentication was not possible. * Fixed various other bugs and added several small UX improvements. Also, make sure to check the README page for the Git Client add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-git-plugin/blob/master/README.md We hope that you will enjoy using the latest release of the Oxygen Git Client add-on as much as we enjoyed developing it! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Version 1.1.0 of the Oxygen DITA Prolog Updater add-on is now available!
by Alin Belu 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hello, We are excited to announce that version 1.1.0 of the Oxygen DITA Prolog Updater add-on is now available in the Oxygen XML default add-on repository! Version 1.1.0 of the Oxygen DITA Prolog Updater add-on comes with these useful new improvements: * The possibility to customize the value of the type attribute for the author element that is inserted to allow you to specify the primary (creator) author. * A new option was added that lets you customize the value of the type attribute for the author element that is inserted to allow you to specify an additional author (contributor). * The process was improved so that an additional author (contributor) cannot be added if they are already specified as the primary (creator) author. * An issue where a warning message was reported even though prolog updating was disabled has been fixed. To install the add-on, follow these instructions: 1. In Oxygen, go to Help->Install new add-ons to open an add-on selection dialog box. 2. Enter or paste https://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Addons/default/updateSite.xml in the Show add-ons from field. 3. Select the DITA Prolog Updater add-on and click Next. 4. Read the end-user license agreement. Then select the I accept all terms of the end-user license agreement option and click Finish. 5. Restart the application. For more information, see the details for the Oxygen DITA Prolog Updater add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-dita-prolog-updater We hope you will find this add-on useful and, as always, your feedback is welcomed! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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to from fun
by Aaron Mehl 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hi all, I am going on vacation soon. I have Oxygen on my desktop and have installed it now also on my laptop. I am still authoring on my desktop, but I want a way to sync my files etc. from my desktop to my laptop so that they will contain the same data. How do I do this? I am guessing that the project file alone won't help me. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Aaron Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/CA3A4558-9513-4ACA-8BA2-9A856E05C33D@ge…) the best free email app for work

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[Ann] Webinar Reminder: What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion (March 17)
by Alin Belu 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hello, To celebrate the release of version 23.1 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, this Wednesday (March 17) you are invited to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion”. See for yourself how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products by joining us for a one-of-a-kind discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen XML. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly-implemented features in version 23.1, such as: * Concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process. * The ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings wherever they are presented. * The new Block-Level Comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page. * Oxygen Styles Basket, the free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing aspects from galleries. * And much more. The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa and Julien Lacour. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-7.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Webinar: What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion (March 17)
by Alin Belu 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Hello, To celebrate the release of version 23.1 of the Oxygen XML suite of products, next Wednesday (March 17) you are invited to a special live webinar - “What’s New in Oxygen 23.1 - Overview and Panel Discussion”. See for yourself how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products by joining us for a one-of-a-kind discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen XML. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from the newly-implemented features in version 23.1, such as: * Concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process. * The ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings wherever they are presented. * The new Block-Level Comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page. * Oxygen Styles Basket, the free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing aspects from galleries. * And much more. The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa and Julien Lacour. This is a free event and you can register at http://www.oxygenxml.com/evs2021-7.html Make sure to check the full list of our upcoming events: https://www.oxygenxml.com/events_programme.html Best regards! -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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Re: [oXygen-user] Why doesn't Oxygen "learn" the meaning of file extensions?
by Roger L Costello 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Ah! How embarrassing. That makes perfect sense. Thanks George! /Roger -----Original Message----- From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces(a)oxygenxml.com> On Behalf Of George Bina Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:08 PM To: oxygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com Subject: [EXT] Re: [oXygen-user] Why doesn't Oxygen "learn" the meaning of file extensions? Dear Roger, In this particular situation Oxygen offers in that dialog that asks you what editor should be used to open the ".h" file an option that says: [ ] Associate file type with editor If you want to always open ".h" files with the C editor, just enable the checkbox and this will automatically add an entry in Options->Preferences -- File Types that will associate for the ".h" extension the C editor. We considered this to cover the use case you mentioned, and if somebody does not want to enable this checkbox then maybe they want to have the option to select another editor next time a ".h" file is opened. You may also go to the "File types" preferences page and associate there extensions with specific editors. There are some cases when we apply the idea of learning, for example if you open a file without any schema, then Oxygen will automatically infer the document structure from the current file and it will offer content completion based on that. Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 3/10/21 7:59 PM, Roger L Costello wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am using Oxygen to create C programs. I drag and drop a .c file into Oxygen and Oxygen recognizes that it should use its C editor to open the file. I drag and drop a .h file into Oxygen and Oxygen asks me what kind of file it is. I can drag and drop the .h file into Oxygen a hundred times and Oxygen will always ask me what kind of file it is, and I always tell Oxygen the same thing. Why can't Oxygen learn? After some number of times telling Oxygen to use the C editor, Oxygen should assume that the .h file should be opened using the C editor. > > Well, that is on my wish list for Oxygen. > > /Roger > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com > https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user(a)oxygenxml.com https://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user

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Why doesn't Oxygen "learn" the meaning of file extensions?
by Roger L Costello 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hi Folks, I am using Oxygen to create C programs. I drag and drop a .c file into Oxygen and Oxygen recognizes that it should use its C editor to open the file. I drag and drop a .h file into Oxygen and Oxygen asks me what kind of file it is. I can drag and drop the .h file into Oxygen a hundred times and Oxygen will always ask me what kind of file it is, and I always tell Oxygen the same thing. Why can't Oxygen learn? After some number of times telling Oxygen to use the C editor, Oxygen should assume that the .h file should be opened using the C editor. Well, that is on my wish list for Oxygen. /Roger

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short and long
by Aaron Mehl 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Is there some way I can do an action and then assignment to a keyboard shortcut? I often capitalize letters that shouldn't be and on Frame and Word there is a keyboard shortcut to change it quickly. I didn't see such a shortcut in Oxygen (maybe there is?). I also see there is no way to record macros. I am using Linux and would like to record/create macros. How do I do this? Thanks? Aaron Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/912E42AA-0763-4BA6-A236-BD434926EF5A@ge…) the best free email app for work

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[Ann] Oxygen XML Editor version 23.1, Oxygen Feedback version 1.4, and Oxygen Content Fusion version 4.0 are available!
by Alin Belu 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Hello everyone, Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 23.1 of its industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine, along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform. This release introduces new features such as concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process, the ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings, and the new block-level comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page. Also, an updated Oxygen Styles Basket, a free web-based visual tool, helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing pre-defined aspects from galleries. ============================================================================= Version 23.1 of Oxygen XML Editor expands upon the substantial list of features that were recently added in Version 23.0 with further improvements, along with various brand new enhancements, fixes, and updates. Dealing with errors and warnings is easier now with the new functionality that allows you to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions available in various places where the validation issues are presented. DITA users benefit from reduced publishing times as the result of an update to the DITA-OT engine to version 3.6, a new refactoring action that generates unique IDs for specified elements, and the DITA to PDF transformation can now display SVG syntax diagrams in the PDF output. On the development side, the JSON Schema Documentation Generator tool was enhanced with new filtering options, syntax highlights, and options for splitting the output into multiple files or showing the location of the source schema. A specialized YAML editor was added with various editing features including automatic validation, batch validation, syntax highlights, automatic indenting, tools for converting between YAML and JSON, and more. Various updates and improvements were also integrated for users working with XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS. The SharePoint integration in Oxygen (available in the Enterprise edition only) was redesigned to use the SharePoint REST API v2 to offer authentication using the OAuth protocol. This means that you now have access to a new SharePoint Online type of connection, the various UI components that display the connection details (SharePoint Browser View, Data Source Explorer View, and the Browse for Remote File mechanism in the Open URL dialog box) were redesigned for better consistency and productivity, and quick actions were added in the SharePoint Browser View to make it easier to connect. Some of the most popular Oxygen add-ons continued to be improved. The Git Client add-on is even more robust with additional actions and options, as well as various UI and performance enhancements. Various new conversion possibilities were added in the Batch Converter add-on (e.g. convert between JSON and YAML or convert multiple Markdown/HTML headings into DITA maps with referenced topics), while the DITA References view add-on and the Oxygen Emmet Plugin received various improvements, and the XSpec Helper view add-on was updated. Other highlights for this version include improvements to the shortcuts, as they can now be assigned to show side-views contributed by plugins, editor variables can now be resolved in project resources created from a project template, and as always, this release includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Some functionality available in Oxygen was made available for automation outside of Oxygen (for example, in a continuous integration server) using a separate Oxygen Scripting license. Starting with version 23.1, you can take advantage of new command-line scripts for comparing files or directories and for executing XML refactoring operations. Also, the Batch Converter script now supports converting between JSON and YAML and various arguments were added to existing scripts to offer even more configuration options. ============================================================================= Version 23.1 of Oxygen Publishing Engine bundles the latest Oxygen PDF Chemistry and Oxygen XML WebHelp together with the DITA-OT used by Oxygen. Oxygen PDF Chemistry received further enhancements, such as more details about warning and error messages to assist with debugging, additional support was included for some requested CSS properties along with the addition of new parameters to help fine-tune customizations, and the memory footprint was optimized to provide better performance. Oxygen XML WebHelp offers new transformation parameters and HTML fragment placeholder parameters to open up a myriad of additional possibilities for customizing the look and style of your output, redesigned renderings of the various types of DITA <note> elements, the ability to add a component in your WebHelp output that links to a PDF resource, and various bug fixes and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/publishing_engine/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 1.4 of Oxygen Feedback brings you more exciting features for the modern comment management platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. The most interesting new feature added in this version is the ability for your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the output page where block elements appear, without having to scroll to the comments area at bottom of the page. The Block-Level Comments feature forms a flexible review solution when coupled with the Oxygen XML WebHelp and the Oxygen XML Editor/Author integration through the Feedback Comments Manager plugin, which makes it easy to locate the exact source content referenced by a particular comment and streamlines the process of making changes to the source document in response to the provided comments. Both Cloud and Enterprise editions also include other productivity improvements, bug fixes, and customization options. For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Cloud edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_cloud/whats_new.html For more information about the Oxygen Feedback Enterprise edition, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback_enterprise/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 23.1.0 of Oxygen XML Web Author offers some enhancements to features added in the past few major releases of the dynamic web-based XML authoring tool. Some of the highlights include the Outline Pane that now displays the entire content of a DITA map when it is opened with all of the referenced topics expanded/editable in one document, optimized performance of the visual editor for Concurrent Editing sessions, while on the customization side, CSS variables are now supported and the feature that displays a DITA map with all of the referenced topic content expanded/editable in one document can now be enabled for Bitbucket integrations. This release also includes new API methods, various bug fixes, and component updates. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html ============================================================================= Version 4.0 of Oxygen Content Fusion, the innovative collaboration tool that is designed to improve any documentation review process, brings you the ability for collaborative teams to edit and review content concurrently. This means that you and your colleagues can edit and review the same document simultaneously in the visual editor and each user can see the changes in real time. Some of the other interesting new features and improvements added in this version include a new dynamic floating toolbar that gives you easier access to the most common editing and styling actions, the option to change the UI language to English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, or Chinese, and the preservation of styling when you copy content in the visual editor and paste it into an external application. For more information, see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html We hope you will enjoy our latest release of the Oxygen XML suite of products! As always, any feedback on it is welcomed. Best regards! -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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[Ann] Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on v.3.0.0 has been released!
by Alin Belu 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Hello, We are happy to announce that version 3.0.0 of our Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on is now available in the Oxygen XML default add-on repository! The add-on is free and is compatible with any Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer version 20.0 and newer. Version 3.0.0 of the Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on comes with these useful new improvements: * Two new conversions were added: YAML to JSON and JSON to YAML. * Import actions are now available from the Append child, Insert Before, and Insert After sub-menus from the DITA Maps Manager's contextual menu. They convert documents and automatically insert them into the DITA map. * Converter actions were included in the File->Import/Convert->Additional conversions sub-menu. * The converter actions have been re-organized for easier access. To install the add-on, follow these instructions: 1. Go to Help->Install new add-ons to open an add-on selection dialog box. 2. Select "-- All Available Sites --" in the Show add-ons from field. 3. Select the Batch Documents Converter add-on and click Next. 4. Read the end-user license agreement. Then select the “I accept all terms of the end-user license agreement” option and click Finish. 5. Restart the application. For more information, see the details for the Oxygen Batch Documents Converter add-on on GitHub: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-resources-converter We hope you will find this add-on useful and as always, any feedback is welcomed! Best regards, Alin -- Alin Belu Oxygen XML Editor

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