NEW:
Merops now ships with 3 new Standard Sets:
AIP Style Manual
Economist Style Guide
MLA Handbook.
IMPROVED,
UPDATED, AND FIXED: Hundreds of corrections and improvements made across
all shipped Standard Sets.
NEW:
Sort option for references to book chapters, online sources, and theses.
NEW: 145
new settings for 33 existing rules (listed below under New settings)
IMPROVED:
Sort reference details in any sequence.
IMPROVED:
Document example now includes reference citations.
IMPROVED:
Standard Set Generator no longer needs to use custom properties, making it
vastly simpler to use.
IMPROVED:
You no longer need to tell Merops to use specific language dictionaries for
recognition, it will auto-detect the language of your document.
FIXED:
In the Standard Set Editor, clicking Tidy
up on the Custom Properties page
would move BODY OF DOCUMENT to the bottom of the sort sequence on the Front and end section page.
FIXED:
In the Standard Set Editor, creating a new Standard Set based on MLA Style
Guide was in fact creating one based on Oxford Style Manual.
FIXED:
Using Look Up when the cursor is in
a footnote or endnote, caused an infinite loop error loop.
FIXED:
A number of corrections have been made to the Styles Plus menu. If you
right-click on the menu and click Restore
default styles then you’ll load the correct list, but any customizations
you’ve made will be lost.
FIXED:Show Default Word Menu on
right-click menu in Word did not do anything.
FIXED AND IMPROVED: Merops now correctly handles files encrypted with a password, and
will put a password back onto the output file if you choose to:
MINOR
IMPROVED:
Document Standard Set button now truncates long Standard Set names.
IMPROVED:
Transport module renamed: Engineering.
IMPROVED:
Input word count counts equations as 1 word, rather than 0.
IMPROVED:
Error message calculating word/equation count now has an Ignore button.
IMPROVED:
Standard Set Generator has better error handling.
IMPROVED:
Microsoft Compatibility pack error message showing download URL now has a
clickable hyperlink.
UPDATED:
Chambers Lookup path updated.
UPDATED:
CrossRef name updated to Crossref.
UPDATED:
New logos for Crossref and WorldCat on user interface.
FIXED:
You can now use Look Up on words
inside deleted text.
FIXED:
Error in error message box: ‘To be able to process Microsoft Word XML Documents
(*.docx) files with this version of Microsoft Word’ Changed to ‘To be able to
process Microsoft Word 2003 documents (*.doc) with this version of
Microsoft Word’
FIXED: All
developer-only messages now make it clearer that it's a developer-only message.
FIXED:
Error in status for Process selection saying
that the output file was being opened to convert its format.
FIXED: Error
messages no longer say "(line 0)" at the end.
FIXED: Input
word count was not counting footnotes or endnotes.
FIXED: Input
word count was only being displayed during processing if the document contained
equations that needed to be converted to MathML.
FIXED: Input
word count was wrong if a document contained multiple equations.
FIXED:
Options: Server path option box was sometimes too narrow.
FIXED:
Process selection was sometimes unable to insert the output into the document.
FIXED:
Spelling error in message box: "Rename output filess"
FIXED:
Standard Set Generator was by default suggesting the Standard Set be given the
same name as the input file.
FIXED: On
process recovery dialog, Clear and
Cancel Queue button is now in sentence case.
New rules:
Reference list: Date style (journal article)
[replaced single rule for journal article and book etc.]
Reference list: Date style (book etc.) [replaced
single rule for journal article and book etc.]
New settings for existing rules:
Et al. /
and colleagues (general text): and others
Et al. /
and colleagues (in parentheses): and others
Front
& end section: Affiliations: Postal/ZIP code: required
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Address: add if known
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Email: add if known
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Fax: add if known
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Heading: Contact | Correspondence
address | For correspondence
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Name: add if known
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Phone: add if known
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Phone: Heading: [no heading]
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Postal/ZIP code: required
Front
& end section: Correspondence info: Punctuation after heading: :[tab] |
.[tab]
Front
& end section: Punctuation after headings like Document ID: .¶ | :¶
Front
& end section: Punctuation between keywords: [space]·[space]
In the
running head, use et al. when there are: 3 or more names
Reference
list:Accessed date introduction: cited
on: [date] | cited on [date] | cited: [date] | cited [date] | first accessed
[date] | last accessed [date] | retrieved [date] | retrieved: [date] | retrieved
on [date] | retrieved on: [date] | first date accessed [date] | last date
accessed [date] | date accessed
Reference
list: Before date (book etc.): ;[no space]
Reference
list: Before date (journal article): ;[no space]
Reference
list: Before journal volume number: .[space] | .[no space]
Reference
list: Punctuation before 'editors' in cited names: ;[space]
Reference
list: Punctuation between Editors description and names: ;[space]
Reference
list: Report title format: bold italic
Reference
list: Translators description: translators | Translators | translated by |
Translated by | Transl. by | Transl by | transl. by | transl by | trans. by |
Trans. by | trans by | Trans by | tr. by | tr by | Tr. by | Tr by | Transl. |
Transl | transl. | transl
Reference
list: URL intro: Available: [URL] | Available [URL]
Reference
list: Volume number format: small caps
Reference
list: With authors, use et al. when there are: 3 or more names
Reference
list: With editors, use et al. when there are: 3 or more names
South
East Asia / South-East Asia: South East Asia | Southeastern Asia
Standard Set Editor:
IMPROVED
ERROR HANDLING: Copy setting to… feature has better error handling.
IMPROVED
ERROR HANDLING: Loading error message made more intuitive:
IMPROVED:Add a comment to the top of every
document box has scroll bars.
IMPROVED:Add a comment to the top of every
document box is 50% larger.
IMPROVED:Add a comment to the top of every
document box supports Ctrl + A to select all.
IMPROVED:
Added OSCOLA and AMA to the Standard Set templates list.
IMPROVED:
Document example loads more than 3 times faster
IMPROVED:
Heading format setting is now disabled
if [no heading] is selected, for phone and email in correspondence info.
IMPROVED:
New feature icon is now left aligned, so more neat and consistent between
settings:
IMPROVED:
Split Accessed on style into two
separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Split ID number style into two
separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Split 'Editors' style in cited names
into two separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Split 'Editors' style into three
separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Split Numerical citation style
into two separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Split Volume style into two
separate rules:
IMPROVED:
Clicking Browse from the file menu
no longer closes backstage tab until you choose a file.
IMPROVED:
Refs Lists General: Other
discrepancies: now has a more intuitive description when printing etc.
UPDATED:
MLA Manual of Style Standard Set renamed to: MLA Handbook.
UPDATED:
New book covers on buttons for MLA Handbook, Oxford Style Manual, and Economist
Style Guide
SIMPLIFIED:
Removed setting to enable/disable recognizing run-in headings. Merops will
always match run-in headings consistently.
SIMPLIFIED:
Removed setting to not look for acknowledgements. Merops will always match
acknowledgements consistently.
SIMPLIFIED:
Removed setting to not look for headings without character styles. Merops
will always match headings consistently.
SIMPLIFIED:
Removed settings to enable/disable matching of actors' names, directors, TV
channels, movies, and TV programs - Merops will now always match these
consistently regardless of Standard Set.
SIMPLIFIED:
Simplified settings for deleting soft returns:
SIMPLIFIED:
'Telephone' style: label changed
to Heading:, and the same for fax and
email.
FIXED:
Added backwards compatibility for old “,_” setting for Punctuation before report title
FIXED:
Labelling error: ‘Before Book title’ and ‘Before Report title’ changed to
‘Before book title’ and ‘Before report title’
FIXED: The
following settings are now set correctly when creating a Standard Set based on
‘Correct and consistent’: Apply Merops visual style to paragraphs
Remove paragraph formatting that will be replaced with styles
Standardize unit abbreviations and symbols
Alert unidentified reference content
Sort name/date references alphabetically
Punctuation position:
Refs Lists General: Other discrepancies:
FIXED: Merops
could crash when you had a large number of Standard Sets open and used Syncronize Windows
FIXED: Superscript
checkbox was often invisible next to footnote options
FIXED: Tab
order on Standard Set templates was wrong
FIXED: Standard
Set generation can now detect “no formatting” for document title format
FIXED: The
setting Number/sort numeric references
by: wasn’t being disabled when Reference
type: ‘name/date style’ was chosen.
FIXED: Bracket style: = 'parentheses' or
'brackets' was a confusing setting. Now says '(parentheses)' or '[square
brackets]'.
FIXED:
Comments could be hidden behind other controls after opening a Standard Set.
FIXED:
Custom properties: Add… dialog,
when resized, was not resizing the textboxes.
FIXED: Custom
properties: Adding a property wasn't being added to the undo buffer
correctly.
FIXED:
Custom properties: When you click Tidy
up, it no longer says "No settings could be tidied up" if you don't
actually have any custom properties.
FIXED:
Merops wasn’t correctly clearing found listview items in found results.
FIXED:
Delete button on Custom Terms
wrongly launched Edit dialog.
FIXED: Document
example didn't always show a deleted article title in journal reference.
FIXED:Document example didn't always show
correct spacing between a full given name and the middle initial.
FIXED:Document example didn't always show
correct spacing/punctuation of author initials in a reference.
FIXED:Document example could sometimes
show the whole keywords paragraph as italic.
FIXED: Document
Example showed the wrong punctuation sometimes before email address in
correspondence.
FIXED:Document example showed extra
punctuation when ‘In’ should not be included in chapter examples.
FIXED: Document
example was showing two heading IDs for the Conclusions heading
FIXED: Document
example wasn't correctly showing the table caption as "Tab" or
"tab"
FIXED: Document
example wasn't showing table top and bottom border
FIXED: Document
Example: 2 different references had the same WorldCat ID.
FIXED: Document
example: Now lists references in alphabetical order.
FIXED:Find Next would not remove highlight
from the last found item if you had clicked on a different control.
FIXED:
Find would continue from the last found location, even if you'd clicked on
a different control.
FIXED: The
options available for Law report format
in footnotes and references and Legal
case standard were completely wrong.
FIXED: If
a drop-down box was changed using up/down key on keyboard, the Save button did not become enabled and
the document example did not refresh.
FIXED:
If you set Accessed on style to
'Accessed [date]' it would wrongly save it as "Accessed: [date]".
FIXED:
Label error: "1 names plus 'et al.'"
FIXED:
Label error: 'Before Date (book etc):' was missing a point after
"etc" (Shabash House Style).
FIXED:
Label error: 'Before Date (book etc):' wrongly had a capital D.
FIXED: Label
error: Corrected 'Table head case' to
'Column head case'.
FIXED: Label
error: Missing closing parenthesis in heading: "Type descriptors (e.g.
‘Figure’ or ‘Paragraph’"
FIXED:
Label error: Missing 'to': "apostrophes should not be used abbreviate
missing years"
FIXED:
Label error: Point in wrong position in label "names plus 'et al'."
FIXED:
Loading all spellings for Merriam Webster dictionary was not loading the
correct spelling of "zoological".
FIXED: New
settings: Clicking Unset rules >
Load unset rules from another Standard Set then clicking Cancel caused an unhandled error.
FIXED:New settings: Icon was sometimes
hidden behind another setting, and sometimes covered a label:
FIXED:New settings: Loading them from
another Standard Set was not working for checkboxes, in fact it only loaded
EXISTING settings.
FIXED:
Some option boxes were not wide enough to fit all available options.
FIXED:
'physiologic' was wrongly listed as the top option in spelling, meaning it was
wrongly selected when loading settings for the Oxford English Dictionary.
FIXED:
psychologic/al setting was applying
the opposite to what it said.
FIXED: Punctuation between affiliations showed
a [space], even though there is a separate rule.
FIXED:
Saving the wrong value for tableCellStartTab when set to preserve original,
which could cause it to make changes in the document.
FIXED:
Some headings showed a hand cursor when you hovered the mouse over them.
FIXED:
Table glossary heading now says 'Glossary[space]' and applies the correct
setting value.
FIXED:
The setting for 'Notes heading' was applying changes even when set to 'preserve
original'.
FIXED:
Tooltip error: "a accent".
FIXED:
Tooltip error: "avaible options:" (and made heading bold)
FIXED: Tooltip
error: "Here you can set the the punctuation…"
FIXED: Tooltip
error: Removed wrong 'Table head case' tooltip from 'Left-hand column subhead
indent' setting.
FIXED:
Tooltips error: Some tooltips were not showing the full message.
FIXED: Top
choice for page break before heading 1, and brackets around heading numbers
both set correctly.
FIXED: When
a new Standard Set was created from scratch, Merops would not automatically
turn on the Abbreviations module.
FIXED: Would
not save the enabling of the Non-English
module correctly, instead it would save whatever the Abbreviations module was set to.
