Version 2.26.0 Released

Andy | 5 August 2014

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 from a Word, Excel, or web page document and produce a draft XLingPaper table. See section 11.53 “Copy Word or Excel Table to XLingPaper” in the user documentation.
Add how to convert interlinear to listInterlinear (or vice versa) to user documentation. See section 11.52 “Convert Interlinear to ListInterlinear (or vice versa)” in the user documentation.
Insert metadata for author, title, creator, and any keywords.
Add ability to control which section levels show in running headers via the publisher style sheet.

You can obtain an installation program for Windows, Mac or Linux at the XLingPaper Download page.

If you have already installed XLingPaper version 2.10.0 or higher and merely want to upgrade, then you will need to download and install the XLingPaper update file. If you have modified any of the stock publisher style sheets, please be sure to make a backup of your work before running this installer. It may overwrite your modifications.

The recent changes are:

2.26.0 5 August 2014
- Add ability to copy a table from a Word, Excel, or web page document and produce a draft XLingPaper table.
- Add LSA Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Style Sheet.
- Refine SIL-UND Thesis references style sheet.
- Add note to Chart section of the user documentation on ChartBuilder and Pygal.
- Add how to convert interlinear to listInterlinear (or vice versa) to user documentation.
- For publisher style sheet, add firstParagraphHasIndent to appendixLayout element.
- For publisher style sheet, when have special formatting for langData and/or gloss in examples, use the ‘prose’ format for langData and gloss in an exampleHeading.
- Insert metadata for author, title, creator, and any keywords.
- Made any literalLabelLayout of a publisher style sheet show in XXE.
- Fix a number of bugs in the Zotero to XLingPaper references converter process: some editor authors, journal pages, and collection pages were missed.
- Allow XeLaTeXSpecial, cssSpecial, and xsl-foSpecial attributes on listDefinition, listSingle, and listWord elements.
- Add ability to control which section levels show in running headers via the publisher style sheet.
- Finish indexing the main user documentation.
- Fix bug which did not correctly show citations using both author=’no’ and paren=’citationBoth’ or paren=’citationInitial’.
- For the default way of producing PDF (via XeLaTeX):
  - Improve automatic page breaking for listDefinition and also for tables when an exampleHeading is present.
  - Refine how index processing is done. Add options for publisher style sheets to set the font size to use for the index content, to show the index in double column mode, and to control the width of the spacing between columns.
  - Fix bug in publisher style sheet processing where some back matter items did not have hyperlinks or PDF bookmarks.
  - Improve spacing after a tablenumbered when a caption is before the table.
  - Fix bug which resulted in a free translation being indented too much when the interlinear was in an endnote which was also in an interlinear.
  - Fix how fontspec now wants to handle script commands so newer version of the Scheherazade font works.
  - Fix bug: PDF would not be produced if a title contained square brackets.
  - Fix bug: When using the after free translation option for showing interlinear source, listInterlinear ones did not line up to the right properly.
  - Fix bug: When using the under free translation option for showing interlinear source and when using automatic wrapping, interlinear ones did not pay attention to the indent-after value of the exampleLayout element in a publisher style sheet.
  - Fix bug: Whenever an ID (for a section, example, refWork, etc.) contained a non-a to z or a non-A to Z or a non-0 to 9 character, the PDF would be produced but any hyperlink to the ID would not work.
  - Fix bug: if an appendix title layout’s attribute showletter was set to ‘no’, the centering of the appendix title was not done.
- RenderX way of producing PDF:
  - Fix bug: if a style sheet said for the contents to be on a new page, it failed to start on a new page.
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