XML Copy Editor

XML Copy Editor > Design goals

Clean interface
High performance

It should be possible to open and edit fairly large documents without noticeable delays.

Portability

The application should compile from the same source files on Linux and Windows as a minimum.

Thin application layer calling mature open source libraries

The application delegates most non-trivial tasks to libraries: the editor is Scintilla, the parsers are Expat and libxml2, xslt processing is courtesy of libxslt, regular expressions are handled by PCRE, the framework is wxWidgets, and so on.

Configurable spelling and style check

The spelling and style check is designed to facilitate work on very large documents (with potentially thousands of unknown terms). The default dictionary has been thoroughly checked. Unlike the grammar checks found in office applications, the style check permits complex transformations of the content: for example, you can reversion your document from American to Commonwealth spelling, switch between -ise/-ize conventions or apply your organization's custom house style.

Microsoft Word integration for Windows users

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Version 1.3.1.0 Released
2022/10/8
* Fix a layout assertion
* Keep running when spell checking fails
+ Support libenchant-2
* Fix a DDE error on Windows (Bug #236)
* gdk_x11_get_server_time crashes when an invalid window is passed
* Migrate to PCRE2 (Miriam Ruiz)

Version 1.3.0.0 Released
2020/8/19
* Link against wxWidgets 3.0
* SSE2 compatible CPUs are required (xerces-c++)
* Use the same default encoding to read and write files (Bug #234)
* Only show SSE2 warning in debug build
* Bug #228 Misleading translation when file was changed externally, may lead to data loss
* Bug #227 Dead Link: Help > Forum
* Bug #221 Patch for building with C++11 (Roger Leigh)
+ Added Mac port
* Update the iconized frame window when opening files from the command line
* Fix supporting for filenames with non-ASCII characters
+ Feature #171 Fold element does not fold following whitespace
+ Feature #170 I did a small patch that allows SPACE to trigger
autocompletion on any space (Thanassis Tsiodras)

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