Introducing Typefi Orion
Seamless replacement for eXtyles®. Built to enhance scholarly workflows.
With external support for Inera’s eXtyles product suite ending in August 2026, there’s a critical need for a powerful, reliable, and future-focused alternative. Typefi Orion is engineered to be a seamless, drop-in replacement that matches the capabilities of eXtyles and improves upon them in key areas, ensuring a smooth transition and a more efficient future.
20+
Years of Experience
building Word-to-XML solutions.
Dec 2025
Target Launch
Well before eXtyles sunsets.
100%
Seamless Transition
Import settings from eXtyles.
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Key Capabilities and Improvements
Typefi Orion isn’t just a replacement—it’s a significant upgrade. We focused on speed, self-service customisation, and backwards compatibility with eXtyles to deliver tangible benefits to your publishing team.
Performance: Inera eXtyles vs. Typefi Orion
Typefi Orion is engineered for superior performance. This radar chart provides a comparative view, showing the significant advantages of Typefi Orion in processing speed, change tracking efficiency, and ease of customisation, reducing bottlenecks and accelerating your entire workflow.
Typefi Orion: Automated Editorial Workflow
1. Define Rules
Use the Typefi Orion Automated Rules Engine to set predefined style and formatting standards.
2. Auto-Identify & Correct
Typefi Orion scans the document, flagging issues and automatically correcting common errors.
3. Guided Review
The system provides contextual guidance, context, and recommended fixes for flagged items.
4. Editor Control
The editor retains full control to accept, reject, or override any of the software’s suggestions.
This rule-based system makes editing faster, streamlines quality control, and ensures the human editor is always in command. It’s a massive efficiency boost over eXtyles.
Built on 20 years of experience
Typefi has been an Inera partner since 2006, and a large number of Typefi clients use eXtyles. We spent the last year talking to eXtyles users about what they want from a replacement, so we understand what you need from a tool like Typefi Orion.
We have more than 20 years of experience developing Word-to-XML solutions, and we know JATS, BITS and STS inside and out (some of our team members were even part of their initial development). That’s why we created Typefi Orion.
Typefi Orion Feature List
Typefi Orion launches with essential editorial tools for scholarly and technical publishing, plus improvements designed to accelerate production, enhance quality control, and streamline collaboration. Built for flexibility and designed to make custom configuration simpler than ever, the features below are organized by workflow area with current development status and expected availability.
Disclaimer: The ‘Expected Availability’ timeframes below are estimates and subject to change as our development process evolves. We believe in transparency about our development progress. We are committed to delivering high-quality features and will update this roadmap regularly.
Last Updated: 3 September 2025
Seamless Microsoft Word® Integration
These features are inherited from Microsoft Word, and will be available at launch, as part of Typefi Orion 1.0.
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| User-friendly editing interface with table editing (cell merging, transpose columns/rows) | Complete | Launch |
| Integrated and configurable spellcheck | Complete | Launch |
| Native track changes and commenting | Complete | Launch |
| Standard Find/Replace and Autocorrect | Complete | Launch |
| Keyboard and button shortcuts | Complete | Launch |
| Inline graphics display for editorial review | Complete | Launch |
| Split-screen document view | Complete | Launch |
| Basic table calculations | Complete | Launch |
| VBA and macro compatibility | Complete | Launch |
Document Processing & Structure
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| JATS XML conversion and export with HTML-formatted tables | Complete | Launch |
| Export to BITS XML | Coming soon | Early 2026 |
| Export to NISO STS XML | Coming soon | Early-mid 2026 |
| Insert mathematical equations with MathML | Complete | Launch |
| Precise tagging of author names (given name, surname, suffix, degrees) and affiliations with dynamic renumbering | Complete | Launch |
| Custom UI to insert special characters and Unicode symbols | Upcoming | Mid 2026 |
| Colour-coding of content elements for styling verification (author names, degrees, reference parts, object callouts) | Complete | Launch |
Citation & Reference Management
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Structure references to house style with Inera Edifix®: Granular tagging, Crossref™ and PubMed® linking | Complete | Launch |
| Automated citation cleanup, matching, and checking—including reference style conversion (Author–Date to Numbered) | Coming soon | Launch |
| Reference renumbering with corresponding citation updates and duplicate reference identification | Coming soon | Launch |
| Validate and link NCBI database—with automatic hyperlinking | Coming soon | Early 2026 |
Content Validation & Quality Control
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Automated, contextual pattern-matching engine (Smart-Replace) | Complete | Launch |
| Integrated business rules for journal standards enforcement | Upcoming | H2 2026 |
| URL validation with errors, redirects, and inline commenting | Coming soon | Early 2026 |
| Colour-coding of content elements for styling verification | Coming soon | Launch |
| Remove duplicate author affiliations | Upcoming | Mid 2026 |
| Align and reorder table footnote citations | Upcoming | Mid 2026 |
Collaboration & Review
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Retain author and editor comments | Complete | Launch |
| Review Smart Replace edits as tracked changes | Complete | Launch |
| View XML directly in application | Complete | Launch |
| Author review versions with change tracking and comments | Coming soon | Launch |
Integration & Workflow
| Feature | Status | Expected Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Easily customise Typefi Orion in-house | Complete | Launch |
| Integrate scripts for automated cleanup and business rule enforcement | Complete | Launch |
| Detailed XML content extraction for other uses | Complete | Launch |
| Seamless integration with your existing publishing systems via API and/or watched folders | Upcoming | Early 2026 |
| Multi-threaded server processing | Upcoming | Mid 2026 |