2:45 p.m.
BCcampus OpedEd
Dear Pressbooks User,
UPGRADE NOTICE
On Thursday , May 18, 2017 at 6:30am Pacific time, Pressbooks ( pressbooks.bccampus.ca )
and open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection that are hosted in BCcampus'
internal instance of Pressbooks ( opentextbc.ca ) will be upgraded from version 3.9.6 to
version 3.9.8.
You may experience a temporary or intermittent outage during this time.
Pressbooks updates that will be noticeable to users are listed below. For a complete list
of changes, see https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/releases .
Features
* Added support for Canadian Indigenous syllabics, which are used for the Chipewyan,
Inuktitut, Plains Cree, Cree, Moose Cree, Slave, Northern Cree, Naskapi, Swampy Cree,
Southern East Cree, and Ojibwa languages.
* The paragraph separation option is now available for webbooks.
* The section openings PDF theme option now supports additional options.
* Part numbers are now displayed consistently across all formats.
Fixes
* Fixed an issue where hyphenation would be enabled in Prince exports even if it was
disabled in theme options.
* Added between section numbers and titles in the mPDF TOC.
* Images on custom title pages are now exported as expected in EPUB and Kindle.
* Print PDF exports are now available for download when export sharing is enabled.
* Numberless chapters no longer display a lonely period in PDF outputs from SCSS v2
themes.
* Importing as a draft now works for EPUB imports.
Enhancements
* Bold, italic, superscript, and subscript text is now properly imported from Word
documents.
* Inline language attributes are now properly imported from Word documents.
* Those with a licensed copy of the BISAC subject headers can now display a multiple
select instead of Pressbooks' default text input.
* Can now set a book's target audience on the Book Information page.
* The book language will now be set to the language selected when the book is
registered.
* The Comments column on the Organize page will now be hidden if comments are
disabled.
* Imported content can optionally be set to published status instead of draft.
* Front matter, chapter, and back matter types will now be imported from Pressbooks
WXR files.
* Empty front matter, chapters, and back matter will now be imported from Pressbooks
WXR files.
* Completing an import from a Pressbooks WXR file will now correctly enumerate
different content types instead of labelling all as chapters.
* Pressbooks now supports third-party export formats.
For questions, contact the BCcampus Helpdesk .
Sincerely,
BCcampus Helpdesk
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