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XMetaL 8 Sneak Peek Tom Magliery XML Technology Specialist 8 February 2013

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What this talk isn’t •  Not secrets per se •  Typo in printed program? •  I did “Top XMetaL Secrets” yesterday •  That’s what the web site said :-/

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What this talk is •  Brief, first look at interesting new features

in XMetaL 8 •  Live demo with development build •  Some things you see may yet change •  We are being intrepid here!

•  Note: release anticipated late February or early March

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New look •  Updated application look and feel •  Auto-hiding and pinnable panels

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Office emulation •  New UI for customizing menus and

toolbars

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Pick ‘n’ choose •  Save or close selected windows •  Window menu > Windows

– Windows dialog opens •  Shift or Ctrl + click to select filenames •  Save or Close

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Cross-file operations •  Find and replace across files (text plus

limited markup insertion support) •  Enhanced interactive spell checking

results •  Spell checking speed improvements

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New table operations •  Sort •  Split •  Fill across/down •  Copy cell attributes •  Select/copy/paste table row structures

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Bonus sorting •  Lists

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Spell checker dictionaries •  Support for Open Office format wordlists

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Quick changes •  Accept and reject tracked changes from

context (right-click) menu

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Faster undo/redo •  “One” mouse action for multiple steps

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Unclutterifiability •  Spiffy new keyboard shortcuts:

– Hide/show Track Changes – Hide/show tag text (minimize tag icons)

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Versions of things •  Windows 8

– But NOT Windows XP (still probably works but not tested or officially supported)

•  Includes DITA OT 1.7

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Thank you for listening! •  Tom Magliery •  tom.magliery@justsystems.com