We just updated the Merops server!
7th June 2017
You don't need to do anything. These improvements will automatically happen with all new files you process.
Here are the major new features and improvements:
Preserve tracked changes
For the first time ever, Merops can now preserve tracked changes in an input document. For now, if you want Merops to do this, you need to 'opt-in' to this feature with each Standard Set, by going to the Custom Properties page of a Standard Set, and adding the following property:
Property name: preserveTrackedChanges
Property value: yes
At some point in the future we will enable this by default, and you will need to tell a Standard Set if you want to accept changes before processing.
Improved recognition and reliability
- Improved recognition accuracy
- More consistent and accurate matching of technical terms, even when modules are disabled
- Consistent matching of 'soft' paragraph returns, even if you don't want to delete them
- Much improved handling of non-English content, and way better language detection
- Fixed all 37 known bugs introduced with the last server update, and many more older bugs
27 brand new rules:
These can be turned on using the Custom Properties page of a Standard Set. Please let us know if you'd like instructions on enabling any of these settings.
- Use f ligatures (fl, ff, ffi, and ffl): yes | no | make consistent
- Database IDs: Alert missing or multiple possible links
- Front & end section: Ensure subjects match chosen classification set
- Front & end section: Sort subjects alphabetically
- Headings: Heading 5 / E case: Sentence case | Title Case | UPPER CASE | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 5 / E displayed / run-in: displayed | run-in | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 6 / F case: Sentence case | Title Case | UPPER CASE | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 6 / F displayed / run-in: displayed | run-in | make consistent
- Footnotes and endnotes: Punctuation between citations: , | ,[space] | ;[space] | make consistent
- Spelling: kumis: kumis | kumiss | koumiss | kumys | make consistent
- Spelling: makgeolli: makgeolli | makkoli | make consistent
- Spelling: zivania: zivania | zivana | make consistent
- Hyphenation: Soft hyphens: apply correct character | delete
- Places: Quebec: Quebec | Québec | Quebec City | Québec City | make consistent
- Works and products: Non-English titles case: Sentence case | Title Case | make consistent
- Time & date: Punctuation between year and month/day: June 2014 | June, 2014
- Units: MAMSL: MAMSL | MASL | m a.s.l. | make consistent
- Reference lists: Book title: Translation in brackets for foreign titles: required | delete
- Reference lists: Date: Format (book): no formatting | bold | italic | bold italic | underline | make consistent
- Reference lists: Date: Format (journal): no formatting | bold | italic | bold italic | underline | make consistent
- Reference lists: Date: Month/year sequence: June, 2013 | 2013, June
- Reference lists: Document title: Translation in brackets for foreign titles: required | delete
- Reference lists: Google Scholar link style: Google Scholar: [ID] | Google Scholar [ID] | Google Scholar
- Reference lists: Journal title: Translation in brackets for foreign titles: required | delete
- Reference lists: Publisher other region: required | delete
- Reference lists: Publisher US state: required
- Biology: Alert unknown genes
69 new settings in 48 existing rules
These can be turned on using the Custom Properties page of a Standard Set. Please let us know if you'd like instructions on enabling any of these settings.
- Font & end section: Affiliations: Country: delete
- Font & end section: Affiliations: Region: delete
- Font & end section: Citation paragraph: Punctuation after heading: :¶ | .¶
- Font & end section: Correspondence: Country: delete
- Font & end section: Correspondence: Other regions: delete
- Font & end section: Correspondence: US state: delete
- Font & end section: Present address: Country: delete
- Font & end section: Present address: Other regions: delete
- Font & end section: Present address: US state: delete
- Headings: Heading 1 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 2 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 3 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 4 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 5 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 6 end: colon | make consistent
- Headings: Heading 7 or higher end: colon | make consistent
- Grammar: Style for proper nouns that end with 's': Charles's
- Punctuation: Space before ellipsis after whole sentence: make consistent
- Spelling: by-law: bylaw
- Spelling: Sharia/Shari’ah/Shariah: make consistent
- Mathematics: Exponentiation with base 10 style: 2.47E+12 | 2.47e+12 | 2.47e12
- Mathematics: Relational and operational symbol spacing: 2 + 2 = 4 (thin spaces)
- Mathematics: Single symbol spacing:
< 7 (thin space)
- Mathematics: Space between degrees-of-freedom numbers: no-break space
- Mathematics: Space between percentage and 'CI' or 'CL': make consistent
- Units: ampere/amp: make consistent
- Units: International units plural abbreviation: make consistent
- Units: kDa/kD: make consistent
- Units: Space between compass direction and measurement in latitude and longitude: make consistent
- Units: Space between number and 'million' etc.: make consistent
- Document objects: Caption title display or run-on: make consistent
- Document objects: Citation format: make consistent
- Document objects: ID format: make consistent
- Document objects: Punctuation before source in legend: make consistent
- Document objects: Repeat words (e.g. Fig. 4 and Fig 5): yes, unless supplementary
- Formulae: Displayed formulae ID style: Equation 1. | Eqn. 1. | Eqn 1. | Eq. 1. | Eq 1. | equation 1. | eqn. 1. | eqn 1. | eq. 1. | eq 1.
- Figures: Full stop / period at end of caption: make consistent
- Tables: Table note citation format: make consistent
- People: 'Anonymous' style: anonymous | anon
- URLs & email addresses: Email addresses: Hyperlink: make consistent
- URLs & email addresses: URLs: Hyperlink: make consistent
- Reference lists: Publisher address: delete
- Reference lists: Translation description container: no brackets
- Biology: Give genus name in full with species (in legends): make consistent
- Biology: Haploid number (n) format: make consistent
- Biology: TRIS/Tris/tris: make consistent
- Chemistry: Free radical dot style: make consistent
- Health and medicine: Stain style: stain (magnification x100) | stain (x100)
