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May 2026
Installers for macOS
This post has good news and bad news on installers for macOS. The good news is that configuration update installers from version 3.19.0 on are now signed and notarized so you can download and run them… read more
Version 3.19.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.19.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
November 2025
Version 3.18.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.18.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
May 2025
Version 3.17.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.17.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
November 2024
Version 3.16.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.16.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
May 2024
Version 3.15.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.15.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
May 2023
Version 3.13.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.13.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more
April 2023
Producing PDF takes a long time on small document
I recently got a new laptop with Windows 11. Producing the PDF (via XeLaTeX) always took a long time, even on a small document. Remember that we note that XeLaTeX takes longer to run the first time yo… read more
November 2022
Version 3.12.0 / 2.42.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.12.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.42.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
June 2022
Version 3.11.0/2.41.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.11.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.41.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
December 2021
Version 3.10.0/2.40.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.10.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.40.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac use… read more
June 2021
Notes about new version 6 of some SIL fonts
The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team announced today that there are new versions of the Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium, and Andika fonts. Many of us use one or more of these fonts. They say: Not… read more
May 2021
Version 3.9.0 / 2.39.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.9.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.39.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
November 2020
Version 3.8.0 / 2.38.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.8.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.38.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
August 2020
Version 3.7.5 Available
XLingPaper version 3.7.5 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version, please see: Using a new version … read more
May 2020
Version 3.7.0 / 2.37.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.7.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.37.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac user… read more
November 2019
Mac Users: Work-around for Mac OS X Catalina
On November 12, 2019, XMLmind sent the following email with links to its FAQ page for what to do to get the XMLmind XML Editor to run on Mac OS X Catalina: Hello, We have added this two FAQs for those… read more
Version 3.6.0 / 2.36.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.6.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) and version 2.36.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version o… read more
October 2019
Mac Users: do *not* upgrade to Catalina
One XLingPaper user upgraded his Mac OS X to Catalina and discovered that the XMLmind XML Editor does not work with this new Mac OS. He could not navigate to open files, any linked/referenced files in… read more
May 2019
Version 3.5.0 / 2.35.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.5.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.35.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
November 2018
Version 3.4.0 / 2.34.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.4.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.34.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
May 2018
Version 8.1 of the XMLmind XML Editor works with XLingPaper
While there was an issue with version 8.0 of the XMLmind XML Editor, it appears that version 8.1 works fine with XLingPaper.… read more
Version 3.3.0 / 2.33.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.3.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.33.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingP… read more
March 2018
Do not install or upgrade to version 8.0.0 of the XMLmind XML Editor
As you may have learned, there is a new version of the XMLmind XML Editor (version 8.0.0). While it does load XLingPaper documents, it breaks the “Convert interlinear line to wrd elements”… read more
Please do not install the new version of the XMLmind XML Editor yet
Today, XMLmind released a new version of the XMLmind XML Editor (aka XXE) which XLingPaper uses. It looks like the new version has a change which breaks XLingPaper’s configuration. Please do not… read more
January 2018
Version 3.2.3 / 2.32.3 Released
This is a maintenance bug fix release. The main bug fix is for the default XeLaTeX way of producing PDF. Version 3.2.0/2.32.0 fixed a problem whereby in some cases the table of contents would show … read more
November 2017
Version 3.2.0 / 2.32.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.2.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.32.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPa… read more
July 2017
Why Learn to Use XLingPaper document available
For anyone wondering why they might want to learn how to use XLingPaper, there is now a document outlining benefits for the author, the reader, and the publisher. It gives 36 reasons for the author, 1… read more
June 2017
Version 3.1.1 / 2.31.1 Released
A new version of XLingPaper is now available. This minor update has several fixes and some enhancements: Improve Linux installers Add ability to have contents in the back matter instead of in the fron… read more
Language Science Press is now accepting XLingPaper documents
Sebastian Nordhoff of Language Science Press (http://langsci-press.org/index) says that they have a way now to receive XLingPaper XML documents and turn them into their LaTeX format. This is good news… read more
May 2017
Version 3.1.0 / 2.31.0 Released
XLingPaper version 3.1.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+) and version 2.31.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 5.3) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPa… read more
April 2017
XLingPaper with the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.4
As noted in a previous post, large documents could take a long time to load with version 7.2 (and 7.3) of the XMLmind XML Editor. There is good news: the recently released version 7.4 of the XMLmind X… read more
January 2017
New website, XXE 7, New Versions Released
First, XLingPaper has a new website at http://software.sil.org/xlingpaper. Feel free to check it out. We will keep the old website up for at least another couple of months. Second, some have noticed t… read more
XLingPaper with the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.3+
Beginning with version 7 of the XMLmind XML Editor (aka XXE), XMLmind is offering their Personal Use License again (they ceased doing so after version 5.3). While this is good news, there are some def… read more
June 2016
SIL’s Global Publishing Services now accepting XLingPaper
For those of you who might want to submit a manuscript to the Global Publishing Services department of SIL International, we are pleased to announce that they are now accepting manuscripts in both XLi… read more
Version 2.29.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.29.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow publisher style sheet … read more
November 2015
Version 2.28.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.28.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. (Mac users: please do not upgrade to El Capitan yet. We are working on a solution for why it does not work correctly with XLingP… read more
July 2015
Font not showing correctly in the editor and in default PDF on Windows 7
Recently, there have been two cases reported where a font was not displaying correctly in the XMLmind XML Editor and in the default PDF output. In both cases it was on Windows 7 and in both cases the … read more
Version 2.27.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.27.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow abbrRef elements where… read more
April 2015
Writing Presentations in XLingPaper
An XLingPaper user has written an interesting blog post on how he has used XLingPaper’s content control mechanism to make it easier to write a single document and use it for a paper, a handout, and sl… read more
August 2014
Version 2.26.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.26.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add ability to copy a table … read more
May 2014
Version 2.25.0 Released
XLingPaper version 2.25.0 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Add a command to convert a p… read more
September 2013
Version 2.24.0 Released
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes. The main highlights are: Allow a tablenumbered element to contain an image file (which, presumably, will be of a table). Add … read more
May 2013
Version 2.23.0 Released
The main highlights are: Improved publisher style sheet capabilities to handle new things like those required by UNDSIL theses and other publishers, including an “author over date” referen… read more
February 2013
Version 2.21.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add ability to publisher style sheets to control the indent for any second and following interlinear line groups and to control the vertical space between any second and follo… read more
November 2012
445 Page Grammar Book Produced via XLingPaper Published
Uppsala Universitet has recently published The Gilaki Language, a 445 page book. This is an English translation and expansion of the original work Giljanskij jazyk by V.S. Rastorgueva, A.A. Kerimova, … read more
October 2012
Version 2.20.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add ability to produce an EBook in EPUB format (requires installing Calibre). Add capability to “frame” a portion of content, including margins and background colo… read more
July 2012
Version 2.19.0 Released
The main highlights are: Add command to convert selected text to a langData element. See section 11.41 “Convert selected text to langData” in the User Documentation. Add command to convert… read more
January 2012
Version 2.18.0 Released
The main highlights are: Improved the default PDF output: added a way to hyphenate based on the language of the document. See section 11.39 “Get the default PDF output to hyphenate for a non-Eng… read more
September 2011
Version 2.17.0 Released
The main highlights are: Added a way to quickly increase the size of tables, whether that table was newly added or already exists. See section 6.1.1 “Increase Table Size” in the User Docum… read more
April 2011
Version 2.16.0 Released
The main highlights are: Added documentation for publisher style sheets. Floats: changed the implementation of the location attribute when it is set to “here”: the float will not be implem… read more
Version 2.15.0 Released
On March 23, 2011 version 2.15.0 of XLingPaper was released. It works with Windows, Mac, and Linux. The main highlights are: Added a web page output that pays attention to an associated publisher styl… read more
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