[Xerte-dev] Xerte 2.18 beta avalaible for download

[Tom Reijnders]

L.S.,

We (Julian, Jonathan, me and several others) are pleased to bring you a 
beta version of the new Xerte 2.18. Please see the preliminary release 
notes by Jonathan for  a list of new things in this release.

Most of the work is done on unifying Xerte and XOT  templates and 
internationalisation support.

A few notes:

- Only Jonathan and I have done some testing with this version. We 
haven't taken the time to do thorough testing, because we would like you 
to help us with that :-)
- The internationalisation support is not finished yet. Some things do 
work already and Dutch pages are available to give you a feel for what 
can be done (if you know how to decipher Dutch). I am working on 
completing the translation of the wizard.
- I am working on integrating the pages into XOT, and provide language 
files for the internationalized code Pat made available. I use 
http://xertetrans.xerte.org.uk for that as well.

**** IMPORTANT ***

Almost all new features can be found in the Pages menu. The Page 
templates could be made obsolete, but we have not done so.
If anyone has a good idea on nomenclature so we can prevent confusion 
between working in Page Wizard/Native/Page Templates mode, please come 
forward. I am afraid we added to the confusion.

**** Quick start guide ****

1. When you use Pages->Create Template Project From pages you basically 
start a template based (XOT like) project that you fill completely 
within the wizard, like the old Page Templates.

2. When starting Pages->Create new Page project, a project similar to 
the old PageWizards is started, when you are on the 'Interface' icon, 
you can add a new 'Page' to the project from the Pages menus. Each page 
will expand it's full underlying structure, and (when not modified) can 
be filled with the wizard. This makes the old PageWizards obsolete.

We did NOT change any functionality in the Templates menu.

You can download the beta installer here: 
http://www.xerte.org.uk/beta/xerte_beta.exe

Have fun!

Tom

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Tom Reijnders
TOR Informatica
Chopinlaan 27
5242HM Rosmalen
Tel: 073 5226191
Fax: 073 5226196


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