Syntext Serna

Syntext Serna is a highly customizable, multi-platform, pure XSL-driven WYSIWYG XML content editor. It looks and works like a conventional word processor, yet gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse content while keeping its integrity intact. Serna lets you collaborate on compound documents that contain embedded data from various sources. Content is viewed as an integrated whole that is intuitively transparent to authors.

Syntext Serna Free Edition is also available.

4.1.5

- Automatic Spell-Checking shows misspelled words in real time.

- The path to an XML Catalog that resides on a web server can be set by using a nextCatalog tag.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

4.1.0

- Drag&drop from Microsoft® Office Word and web browsers.

- Drag&drop between opened documents.

- API for extending drag&drop from external applications and within Serna.

- Hot keys for Zoom commands, for switching between documents, and for operations with attributes.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

4.0.0

- New look&feel of Serna due to the migration to the Qt graphic library version 4.4.3.

- Fonts are rendered correctly and documents are redrawn properly on MacOS X.

- Serna maintains and validates the uniqueness of DITA elements' IDs within the scope of the parent topic.

- Enhanced Print Draft lets you save documents to PDF format.

- SSL protocol support provides for secure communication between Serna and an SSL-enabled remote HTTP or WebDAV server.

- SVG images are natively supported.

- Serna can now work as an ActiveX control on Windows.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

4.1b.0

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

3.8.0

- Serna maintains and validates the uniqueness of DITA elements' IDs within the scope of the parent topic.

- When inserting a reference to non-dita resources, the scope and format attributes are set automatically.

- SSL protocol support provides for secure communication between Serna and an SSL-enabled remote HTTP or WebDAV server.

- ISO-8859-15 encoding support.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

4.0b.0

- New look&feel of Serna due to the migration to the Qt graphic library version 4.

- Enhanced Print Draft lets you save documents to PDF format.

- SSL protocol support provides for secure communication between Serna and an SSL-enabled remote HTTP or WebDAV server.

- SVG images are natively supported.

- Fixed a number of stability issues, including incorrect document rendering on MacOS X.

3.7.0

- Native platform support for:

- Solaris 8 (Sun SPARC)
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

- XHTML documents are opened by default as a single page.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

3.6.0

- Enhanced DITA usability tools simplifying topic creation and work with references: xref, related link, topicref, and conref.

- Navigation to the target element of the conref.

- PDF publishing of DITA documents with Antenna House XSL Formatter.

- Paginated and Normal document views.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

3.5.0

- Incorporated DITA Open Toolkit 1.4.

- PDF publishing of DITA documents with FOP.

- Enhanced Undo/Redo functionality.

- Open Recent list preserves document opening mode.

- Reduced document opening time.

- XSL stylesheet/Schema modification time check can be disabled.

- Document modification time check can be disabled.

- SpellCheck plugin can be located outside of Serna's plugins folder.

- Paths to XML Catalogs are displayed in the Document Properties Dialog.

- Splash screen can be disabled.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

3.4.0

- DITA V1.1 support, including Bookmap and Glossary support.

- A number of DITA-related enhancements, including enhanced publishing with DITA Open Toolkit, enhanced stylesheets and ContentMap, improved rendering of "xref"s.

- Templates in the New Document Dialog can be hidden.

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

3.3.0

- Fixed a number of stability issues.

- Optimized GUI: much faster switching between documents.

- Simplified, transparent Save View/Restore View functionality.

- When browsing from dialogs, paths to images and resources are relative
wherever possible.

- DITA enhancements, including localization identical to DITA OT,
"metadata" element shown in editing window, "xref" displaying the title of the referred element.

3.2.0

- Fixed a number of stability issues, especially DITA-related ones.

- DITA enhancements, including support of "indexterm" and metadata elements, ability to switch localization on-the-fly.

- Docbook enhancements, including Docbook V4.5 support, "code" element support, numbering figures & tables as in publishing stylesheet.

- Functional enhancements, including extensions for redlining handling and for document() function, support of "xsl:number level="any"" and extension-element-prefixes.

3.1.0

- Chinese, Dutch, French, German, and Italian GUI localization.
- Enhanced navigation in tables.

3.0.0

- Serna GUI I18n ability.
- Russian localization added.
- Major code cleanup after the beta versions.
- A number of minor features added.

3.0b.0

- ContentMap. Replacement of the old TOC pane that allows easy and precise navigation in the document, direct element manipulation, profiled views, drag&drop, and more

- Drag & Drop Editing with On-the-fly Validation. Drag selected portions of the document to copy or paste them into another location. Serna indicates where you can perform drop according to XML schema.

- Element Help. Serna can show help for elements and attributes (available from main window, element and attribute dialogs). DITA full help is available out-of-the-box.

- Multi-version Support. Multiple versions of Serna can now be installed simultaneously.

2.6.0

- Major DITA enhancements, DITA-specific dialogs and buttons (Enterprise Edition).
- Locking policy support for WebDAV ( Document -> WebDAV -> WebDAV Properties ).
- XSLT function function-available() is implemented.
- Custom Content can now automatically generate unique element ID.


2.5.0

- Edit Selection as Text. Now you can edit selected portion of a document as XML source without switching to text mode.
- Convert To XInclude. Allows you to create an XInclude inclusion with a simple selection.
- Comment/Uncomment. You can convert selected document portion to/from XML comment.
- Ability to force Windows/Unix style linebreaks in the documents.
- Enhanced, fully reworked text editor for Text Mode.

2.4.0

- Documentation: Serna GUI Item Reference Guide & Serna API Design Notes
- Basic MathML support.
- XML 2005 IDEAlliance Proceedings V1.3 support.
- Basic functionality of table plugin for DITA.
- Anti-aliased fonts on Linux.


2.3.0

- WebDAV support
- Text XInclude support (aka parse="text")
- Basic forms support
- Preview Python API

2.2.0

- Basic XInclude support
- Redlining (Annotations)
- New fancy icons
- C++ API examples
- A number of minor enhacements and bug fixes

2.1.0

- Context-sensitive templated custom content insertion
- XSLT parameter set swithching while editing
- Autosave
- Preview version of C++ API
- Help->Shortcut Keys dialog
- DITA 1.3.2
- A number of minor enhacements and bug fixes

2.0.0

- Minor pre-release bug fixes.

2.0.b3

- CALS table tools.
- GUI customization tool.
- Enterprise configuration settings.

2.0.b2_1

- New, fully customizable GUI
- 'Liquid' dialogs
- Multiple validation modes (Strict, On, Off)
- Automatic clearance of validation errors
- Advanced element folding
- Large document support
- TOC is in sync with cursor position
- Copy/paste as text
- Enhanced open dialog and open with template
- Hiding peculiar attributes and elements
- Advanced Find&Replace