Writer Plugins 7.1.0
Compatibility
- Writer
>=4.3.0
Released 2018-04-04
Release overview
Placeholders for paragraph styles
Paragraph styles now display placeholder texts in the article for empty paragraphs. This can be used to notify the user that there is missing texts in the document. To use this new functionality the ‘instructional text’ in the article template should be removed, and just keep an empty paragraph with the wanted text style.
Support for avatar in concepts
When concepts has avatars, they are displayed in search result lists and in selected concepts in the writer metadata tabs.
Text marker plugin
There is a new plugin called marker, which can be used to highlight text in custom ways. For information about configuration, please look at the plugin README.md file
Support for minimizing images in the article
To enhance readability of the article text, there is an option in the Airplane menu to make images in the article smaller. When selecting the image, the edit functionality re-appears.
Keyboard shortcuts for paragraph text styles
It is now possible to use keyboard shortcuts to select text style for the current paragraph. Default shortcuts are
| Standard shortcut | Mac shortcut | Text style |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + Alt + 0 | Cmd + Alt + 0 | Body |
| Ctrl + Alt + 1 | Cmd + Alt + 1 | Headline |
| Ctrl + Alt + 2 | Cmd + Alt + 2 | Subheadline |
| Ctrl + Alt + 3 | Cmd + Alt + 3 | Preamble |
| Ctrl + Alt + 4 | Cmd + Alt + 4 | Block quote |
It is possible to have custom keyboard shortcuts for all text styles. Please see Text styles README.md file
Changes in this release
New Feature
- WPLUG-285 - Add keyboard shortcuts to paragraph text styles
- WPLUG-273 - Add functionality to minimize Image plugin in text area
- WPLUG-266 - Add text marker plugin
- WPLUG-219 - Support placeholders for headers, paragraphs and other text styles
Improvement
- WPLUG-287 - Use configurable keyboard shortcuts for text styles
- WPLUG-270 - ConceptPlugin: Improve search functionality and extend info about search result for ConceptMapComponent
- WPLUG-238 - Review text style types CSS
- WPLUG-236 - ConceptPlugin: Use concept avatar on selected items and on search result
Bug
- WPLUG-286 - Validation of review grades should accept empty grade (null or empty) in SLM specific validation plugin
Upgrade notes
WPLUG-219 Support placeholders for headers, paragraphs and other text styles
In order to take full advantage of placeholders, newsML templates that contain dummy texts like “Headline here” or “Text here…” must have these removed.
WPLUG-236 ConceptPlugin: Use concept avatar on selected items and on search result
Extended avatar functionality
Requires writer > 4.3.0
writer-config updates
Needs a new property in ConceptService-configuration: propertyMap
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"ConceptAvatarUuid": "ConceptAvatarUuid",
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