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  • Getting special characters in a single click like in WinWord (more symbols) instead of getting it using multiple combination of keys

    Denise Reid
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Currently, we are referring the file “Symbols_KeyBoard Characters.pdf” and using the combination of multiple keys to get the particular symbols as below. If we have a menu/tool bar similar to Picture 4.2 in XPP while opening specifications such as Item...

  • Set free our numeric keypad!

    Bart Terryn
    • Duplicate on
    • 11 Comments
    In the old days, when Xyvision moved from proprietary hardware to standard hardware like PC's, it made sense to try to mimic the soft key pad by confiscating the numeric keypad. But nowadays, how many people will ever get used to the odd soft keypad...

  • update xpp command update_JT

    John Hoffman
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 6 Comments
    The command use to update the job ticket update_JT is useful for many purposes, but as of xpp 9.3.1 it does not update the field in the job ticket sessions saved . Our site has thousands of archived documents that it republishes weekly, and most of...

  • Pathfinder: recent files - add right click = scroll to job/library

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 Comments
    In the pathfinder interface you have under the 'File' a list of the last 9 divisions or specs that you have opened. If you just click on one of these entries the system will just open that division or spec...great. But the left hand window does not get...

  • define default values for new style file fields

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    When there is a new fields added to a style file, the XPP automatic style upgrade process will set this field to a value so the system keeps behaving like it did before. For SDL engineering and some customers this makes sense. As they do not want the...

  • To increase the variable values for “!flag” to indicate different status of composition of the line.

    Simon Tung
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 4 Comments
    Currently "!flag" is used in the Xymacro to set the left margin note or the right margin note. Because of the limitation, when the left margin note <ufm1> margin888 <ufn> and right margin note <ufm> margin999 <ufn> are be set in the same line, only...

  • Text Mode - Saved text should appear identical after it is restored

    Lewis McCarty
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Working primarily in Text Mode, we use many restores daily, as templates (with placeholder text to be updated immediately after each restore). To help easily locate the content needing to be updated, we format the appearance of the text (Med, Bold,...

  • Create pickups and footnotes on the fly

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    I want to be able to define the content of pickups and footnotes from within compose. Just let us define in the (CSS) style setup when an element starts and ends a pickup or footnote. Reasons for doing this: simplicity: This would take away the...

  • H&J table needs to restored at the end of a tag

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 Comments
    Currently the XPP system restores the hyphenation language setting at the end of a tag, but not the h&j table. As the h&j table contains settings about min/max characters in the hyphenated word and these settings vary according to the language you are...

  • Option to display insert trace of endline space

    Kai Chung Lew
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Recently, when a space insertion is located in the endline, there is no trace and bar displayed in Xyview. I would suggest to add an option in JT/DT to choose to display it or not to display it for different purpose.