Hi Yves,

I'm glad you enjoy the new add-on.

Based on Pieterjan's similar request we added an issue for this:

    EXM-49001 [Writer Helper] Automatically create reusable components

We do not have some precise future plans for it, we found useful for our interns to work on it in order to get more accustomed using the Oxygen APIs but indeed one direction would be to automatically create a reusable component and conref to it from all places.

My initial wish for the add-on was for it to be useful no matter what XML vocabulary you are using, so it does not have any DITA-specific features.

Also the add-on only takes the text content into account when finding similar content, so if your two similar paragraphs have different attributes or they contain key refs, like for example one of them has a keyref <ph keyref="abc"/> and the other does not, we still report them as similar because we rely on the end user to make the final choice. So if we add tools to make changes to the content we would need to find perfect matches, paragraphs or blocks which have the same attributes and precisely the same XML structure.

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor
On 10/13/21 15:15, Yves Barbion wrote:
Hi Alin,

I have just tested the add-on and I like the Find Similar Content feature. Next question is, of course, whether there is some kind of clever feature to turn (or transform) all of these elements in the Results pane into a conkeyref and replace the identical content in one go. ;-)

Kind regards

Yves

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 17:18, Alin Belu <alin_belu@oxygenxml.com> wrote:

Hello,  


Great news, everyone! Today, we announce the release of a new add-on that provides great support for helping technical writers - the Writer Helper Add-on!   

This new entry to the always-expanding Oxygen add-on library contributes a side-view named 'Writer Helper' that contains several tools intended to enhance the technical writers’ day-to-day activity: 
 

Review - Select folders or files in the Project view and start a review session for them. This is useful for reviewing a set of documents. 
Similar Content - Select folders or files in the Project view, then choose a list of elements to check for similarity. This is useful for finding possible elements that can be reused instead of being copy-pasted between documents. 
Read Aloud - Select content in the current document and use the Play button to listen to how it is read by the operating system's narrator. This is useful for those who want to review content by listening to it. 
Tips - View a list of editing tips tuned for technical writers. This is useful for discovering productivity tips to make your editing experience more efficient and productive. 

 


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. Enter or paste http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Addons/default/updateSite.xml in the Show add-ons from field.

3. Select the Writer Helper 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. 


We hope that you will find the release of the Writer Helper add-on useful and any feedback will be welcomed! 

  

Best regards,  

Alin 

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Oxygen XML Editor
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