I'm glad to hear there's some movement. Unfortunately, we've had to roll back all of our deliverables (40k+ pages of content) to Frame 2019. We tried a powershell script solution to find/replace ? in the the HTML files. However, in the process of investigating this bug, we discovered another--Frame is now adding the first line of text in a file to the left-hand HTML navigation. For example, if you have a volume title as the first bit of text, a chapter title as the second line, and you generate a TOC with the chapter title but no volume title, it adds the volume title into the left hand nav bar above the chapter title when you generate the HTML. I'll be reporting that one as well.
I have to say: the number of strange HTML generation errors in Frame 2019 and 2020 are troubling. While I can see how some people might view these as "just" bugs, they are having a serious impact on our relationship with our customer. The nature of our customer and our contract with them means that there are both possible liquidated damages and required root cause analyses for any sort of error that affects the integrity of the information we publish for them. If a poorly converted question mark creates a broken link to a page of legal disclaimers or appeals rights, it is not just a broken link--it's a failure to disclose legal rights and obligations, which, in turn, affects whether they're going to end up in court. If the presence of a straight apostrophe or quote results in poorly converted text in which everything between that apostrophe and the terminal punctuation mark is missing, it's not just missing text, it's a complete absence of legal policy information that may result in the customer having to pay out millions of dollars in claims that shouldn't be paid. These aren't bugs that affect some tiny website, a how to guide, or a self-published book. We're talking about 40,000 or more pages of highly complex legal text and policy information. Without the help of some sort of third party software or homemade script, there's no reliable way for us to even discover some of these issues in the final product because they're so large. Who notices a single missing half sentence in the middle of page 38303? Or link 2980 out of 10000?
I'm not sure what kind of testing gets done before the code is packaged and pushed, but it's clearly not enough.
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