Content Editor changes
A description of the new and improved editor behavior that you can expect with this release.
- Improved copy/paste- XML support on the clipboard
- With this version, we put the XML structure on the system clipboard when copying in Content Editor . This enables users to copy from one document to another without the loss of any information. In the old situation, sometimes information about the structure was lost since content was copied as HTML, and converted back into XML upon pasting into the editor. As not all structures that can be described in XML can be represented in HTML, this extra conversion caused the content to be pasted differently than expected.This problem was especially noticeable when copying and pasting tables.
- New documentation for implementers
- With this release we've included a new Customization section in the product documentation (http://docs.sdl.com/ContentEditorCustomization ). This section is written with the intention to help you understand the possibilities and get started implementing Content Editor . Previously, we just provided API and configuration references.
- A new dialog when you are pasting large amounts of content
- To improve the user experience, if it is expected to take more than 1.5 seconds to paste content, then we now show a dialog to inform the user that the application is busy pasting content.
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New configuration for an
equation-blockelement -
The DITA 1.3 element
equation-blockis a specialization of theparagraphelement (topic/p). Because of that, we applied theparagraphelement configuration toequation-blockelements automatically. In the case of the paragraph role, the inherited configuration for theequation-blockcaused theequation-blockelement to be inserted too often. With the improved default configuration that includes specific configuration for theequation-blockelement, this element will only be inserted when appropriate. - New tooltip descriptions for DITA elements
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The default DITA configuration now contains descriptions for most DITA elements, based on the descriptions from the DITA 1.3 standard. These descriptions will be shown as tooltips in the UI, and can be accessed using the
XopusNode.getDescriptionAPI method. - Improved wording in the Content Editor UI
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The More Content ribbon group is now renamed to the more specific All elements, and the Technical content ribbon group is renamed to the more correct Common elements. Note that the Common elements group can be customized to contain the elements your organization uses most often. This can be done using the
overlaymechanism in the configuration. -
You can now see the
processing-roletopicref attribute -
In previous Content Editor versions, the
processing-roleattribute was given thehidden-from-uirole in the default configuration, causing it to be invisible in the properties panel. It is now shown by default, but only if the user has enabled the Authoring Attributes group in the Properties panel.