Software update: Caliber 1.37

Version 1.37 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit Book: Live spell checking in the code view. Now spelling errors are highlighted in the code view for convenient correction as you type. This can be turned off via Preferences->Editor.
• E-book viewer: When using the tap and hold gesture on a touchscreen, allow lookup of the word currently under the finger in the dictionary or online. Close tickets: 1318242
• Edit Book: Allow putting the editor into replace mode by pressing the Insert key
• Content server: Add more descriptive titles to the OPDS feeds, where possible.
• Edit Book: Update the Table of Contents view automatically when the ncx file is edited.
• Edit book: Insert tag button: Allow entering attributes along with the tag name to make it easy to repeatedly insert, for example, .
• Windows driver for Woxter Scriba 190. Closes tickets: 1317892
• Edit Book: Add an entry to the context menu of the preview panel to open external URLs when a link is right clicked on

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Fix error in the Check Book tool when items in the opf have paths starting with a leading slash. Close tickets: 1319378
• Book polishing: Fix publisher field in epub not being cleared when updating metadata. Close tickets: 1319732
• Kobo driver: Update to handle changes to annotation processing in newer Kobo firmware.
• DOCX Input: Handle docx files with index fields that have their field names incorrectly lower cased. Close tickets: 1318670
• Edit book: Fix incorrect syntax highlighting on linux if the text contains non-BMP unicode characters.
• Edit book: Fix regression that caused an error when trying to edit files with no defined syntax, such as plain .txt files. Close tickets: 1318139

Improved news sources

• Wall Street Journal