News

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Support for Merops 3 (more info)
• Processes documents more than 25% faster than ever before!
• Far more accurate recognition and editing - Merops now makes 75% fewer errors
• Brand new address system, with far more intelligent recognition, and the ability to sort address lines, and add lines to an incomplete address
• Brand new format recognition system - can preserve emphasis and other formatting and more intelligently interpret other formatting changes much more accurately and comprehensively, and can remove subtle/invisible formatting
• Merops can now apply corrections to references using CrossRef, as well as PubMed
• More consistent recognition - Merops now looks for advanced terminology even if modules are disabled, to ensure more accurate recognition
• Over 150 brand new rules (see below for full list)
• 18 existing rules with new settings (see below for full list)
• Brand new document report, can show readability statistics, number of errors and/or inconsistencies, a Merops confidence score, and an overall document quality score
• Far better handling of graphics and equations

MINOR

• Full list of brand new rules (available using custom properties):

  Structure

  • add/remove point from end of author by-line
  • add/remove terminal point from supplementary material paragraph
  • alert grant sponsor found with no FundRef ID
  • alert multiple articles found in one document
  • combine competing interest paragraphs
  • combine paragraphs in acknowledgement
  • delete duplicate affiliations
  • delete footers and / or headers
  • delete heading number from acknowledgements and/or references heading
  • delete 'part' ID from front matter
  • delete structural tags
  • document-wide sorting
  • endnote symbol contained in brackets or not
  • footnote symbol at end or start of author footnotes
  • 'Part' ID style in front matter
  • point or nothing at the end of headings, customizable for each level
  • present address paragraph: add / alert missing country
  • present address paragraph: delete paragraph
  • present address paragraph: delete postal codes
  • present address paragraph: delete qualifications
  • present address paragraph: name/details sequence
  • present address paragraph: omit USA
  • present address paragraph: paragraph returns or not between addresses
  • present address paragraph: punctuation after heading
  • present address paragraph: region style
  • present address paragraph: require address in
  • present address paragraph: require email
  • present address paragraph: require name
  • present address paragraph: require phone and/or fax
  • present address paragraph: US state style
  • repeat affiliation in brackets for XML
  • require date in front/end section
  • require department in addresses
  • require email in affiliations
  • require fax and/or phone in affiliations
  • require organization name in addresses
  • require postal code in addresses
  • require state in US addresses
  • terminal punctuation of glossary
  • website heading in addresses

  Language

  • add or remove spaces where required
  • ad-lib / ad lib when used as adjective
  • alert clichés
  • alert overly concise language
  • Baath / Ba'ath
  • brainwave / brain wave
  • bush fire / bushfire
  • correct AD1990 to 1990AD
  • correct bad punctuation choice
  • correct punctuation position
  • correct use of possessive apostrophe s
  • correct word order
  • delete extra punctuation marks
  • Portuguese dictionary added
  • replace multiple exclamation marks with one
  • space between point and ellipsis between sentences

  Document objects

  • combine paragraphs in captions
  • convert simple displayed formula to MathML in XML file
  • delete graphics if they have figure legends
  • delete invisible graphics
  • display caption title on its own paragraph, or run-on
  • document object anchor location for XML
  • equation ID in parentheses or not
  • 'experiment' style in document objects
  • 'Figure' and 'Table' style when inside reference citations
  • format of document object citation IDs
  • format of document object citations
  • move captions from body to end matter
  • 'paragraph' style in citations
  • punctuation before source in legends
  • punctuation between displayed formula label and formula
  • show original equation in comment when changing an equation
  • tables: alert misaligned cells
  • tables: alert nested tables
  • tables: case of glossary items
  • tables: correct alignment spacing in cells containing numbers, or delete
  • tables: delete false paragraph returns in table head
  • tables: display each footnote on its own paragraph, or combine
  • tables: footnote symbol format
  • tables: format of footnote citations
  • tables: sequence of glossary terms/definitions
  • tables: spacing between footnote contents and its footnote symbol

  Numbers

  • £1million / £1 million
  • 10% / 10 %
  • alert ambiguous units, e.g. 3k
  • ampere / amp
  • approximately / approx. / approx / circa / ~ / ≈ before number
  • convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit
  • change 'to' to en rule in ranges
  • correct word 'average' to 'mean' where appropriate
  • kWh / kW h
  • micrometre / micron
  • psi / lb/in²
  • spacing in expressions like 32° North
  • standardize abbreviations of units
  • standardize units words, e.g. 'metric tonne' to 'tonne'
  • 01 December / 1 December

  References

  • add comment to top of document listing references not cited
  • alert duplicate numbers in a numeric reference list
  • automatically correct from PubMed if it's the only difference and there’s no unmatched content
  • case of authors in a reference
  • delete or add publisher location from references
  • delete publisher company from references
  • different settings for ref date in parentheses if it's a journal or book reference
  • elide numerical citations
  • en rule or hyphen in page range
  • author-date citation relative to punctuation
  • page count style
  • preserve whole reference if it contains any unmatched content
  • publisher location language in references
  • punctuation before page count
  • punctuation between multiple references in a single paragraph
  • report title format in references
  • require publication city in references
  • 'series' in a reference in brackets or not
  • thesis reference details sequence
  • 'Translated' in brackets or not
  • translated title in brackets or not
  • unknown reference details sequence

  Other

  • abbreviate or expand journal title names in general text
  • alert unknown regions / states / counties
  • biology: abbreviate genus to 1-letter even if that letter is shared by other species in the document
  • biology: expand genus name with species in legends
  • biology: format of spp etc.
  • biology: TRIS / Tris / tris
  • choose the font for monospace characters
  • delete all comments, or just Merops comments, when running Finish XML
  • font of expressions like "L-shaped"
  • formatting: default section formatting
  • formatting: preserve section formatting
  • formatting: delete/preserve section breaks
  • formatting: preserve paragraph styles
  • formatting: preserve run-in heading character style
  • formatting: remove subtle or invisible formatting
  • document quality report: generate report comment (customizable list of items)
  • document quality report: pass/fail thresholds
  • haploid numbers in italic / roman
  • journal title standard: NLM or ISO
  • law and politics: correct names of legislation
  • law and politics: ex parte / ex p. / ex p
  • law and politics: OJ style
  • law and politics: Re / In Re / In re / In the matter of
  • radical dot style preferences
  • upper-case delta function format
  
  
• New properties for existing rules (available using custom properties):
  • correspondence heading: 'Correspondence Address', 'Correspondence address', 'For correspondence'
  • 'edition' style in references: 'second ed', 'Second Ed', 'second edn', 'Second Edn'
  • issue style: ', No 4', ', no 4', ' No. '
  • probability DOF: sub with space, not sub with space, (sub with space), (not sub with space)
  • punctuation after figure caption label: colon tab, point tab
  • punctuation after front matter header: point para, colon para
  • punctuation after table caption label: colon tab, point tab
  • punctuation before postal code in address: comma para
  • punctuation before year in references: semi colon without space
  • punctuation between address lines: comma para, semicolon para
  • punctuation between affiliation footnote symbol and the footnote: '.[tab]', '.[space]'
  • punctuation between last authors in author byline: ", & " (no comma if two names)
  • punctuation between last authors in reference: ", & " (no comma if two names)
  • punctuation between last authors in running head: ", & " (no comma if two names)
  • punctuation between last editors in reference: ", & " (no comma if two names)
  • Supplementary material heading: sentence case versions of all existing options
  • table footnote format: bold+italic+superscript
  • volume container in references: parentheses, including pages