Release of Open Source XMLmind Ebook Compiler v1.4

Can turn a set of HTML pages into a self-contained ebook. Supported output formats are: EPUB, Web Help, PDF, RTF, WML, DOCX (MS-Word) and ODT (OpenOffice/LibreOffice). A simple alternative to DITA and …

Important enhancements and bug fixes. Recommended upgrade, especially if you use w2x to convert DOCX to DITA. More information below.

What is XMLmind Word To XML?

XMLmind Word To XML can automatically convert DOCX files to:

• Clean, styled, valid …

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Enhancements:

• ODT output format: due to some limitations of the ODT output format, border and padding attributes were …

Enhancements:

• Command-line utility w2x and desktop application w2x-app now support plugins.

  A plugin is simply a text file having a ".w2x_plugin" suffix, containing a number of w2x command-line arguments and starting with comment lines containing information about the …

• Index entries marking a page range (e.g. field XE "XML" \r "OpenXMLPageRange") in the DOCX document are now supported when generating DITA and DocBook documents.
• Upgraded XMLmind Web Help Compiler (whc for short) to version 2.1.3_02.
• XMLmind …

Enhancements:

• A new —very low-level— parameter -p edit.ids.automatic-ids regex_pattern lets the user specify which bookmarks automatically generated by MS-Word ("_GoBack", "_Toc123", etc) are to be preserved by the conversion process, and this, even when such bookmarks …

Enhancements:

• In addition to HTML, an ebook page may now be written in Markdown.

  Many “Markdown dialects” and many Markdown syntax extensions are supported, thanks to flexmark-java, the software component used to implement Markdown support in ebookc.

  However …

Release of XMLmind Word To XML v1.5. Highlights:

• Several enhancements and bug fixes mostly related to the support of East Asian languages.
• XMLmind Word To XML, which passed all non-regression tests, is now officially supported on Java™ 10 platforms.

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