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5 | | -<h2>Release Notes for 2.0</h2> |
6 | | -<p><i>Released on 28 November 2022</i></p> |
| 5 | +<h2>Release Notes for 2.1 Beta 1</h2> |
| 6 | +<p><i>Released on 30 July 2023</i></p> |
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8 | | -<p>Scroll down for <a href="#patch">Patch Notes</a></p> |
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10 | | -<p>This release includes a major update to the way your project is managed. It also modernises the |
11 | | -user interface. The project file format has also been updated, and your projects will be upgraded |
12 | | -the first time you open them in this release.</p> |
13 | | -<p>There are some major changes under the hood in this release. A lot of the code has been |
14 | | -rewritten and split up into smaller components. A lot of this is to make it more efficient, but |
15 | | -also to make it more modular in preparation for planned future additions. Most of these changes |
16 | | -don't affect you as the user, but there are also a number of big feature changes that you will |
17 | | -notice.</p> |
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19 | | -<h3>User Interface Changes</h3> |
20 | | -<p>The tabs used to switch between the Project Tree and Novel Tree, as well as between the Editor |
21 | | -and Outline views, have been replaced with a side bar. The side bar is located on the left side of |
22 | | -the main window, and gives you the option to select between "Project Tree View", "Novel Tree View" |
23 | | -and "Outline Tree View". They correspond to the previous tabs.</p> |
24 | | -<p>The side bar also includes a shortcut to the "Build Novel Project" tool. The "Project Details", |
25 | | -"Writing Statistics" and "Settings" buttons that were previously below the project tree are now |
26 | | -located at the bottom of the side bar.</p> |
27 | | -<p>All three views have also been given updates. They each have a label and a toolbar. The Project |
28 | | -Tree View has a dropdown with quick links to all your root folders, which should make it easier to |
29 | | -navigate a large project tree. You can activate the link menu by pressing `Ctrl+L` while in the |
30 | | -Project Tree, so you don't need to move your mouse.</p> |
31 | | -<p>A dropdown menu with all the options for adding new items to your project has also been added to |
32 | | -this toolbar. This too can be activated directly with a shortcut, `Ctrl+N`. More options are |
33 | | -available under the menu button, and there are also a set of move up and down buttons for moving |
34 | | -items.</p> |
35 | | -<p>The Novel Tree View and Novel Outline View have also received toolbars and controls that let you |
36 | | -select which data to show, and customise the view.</p> |
37 | | - |
38 | | -<h3>Changes to Project Structure</h3> |
39 | | -<p>A number of changes have been made to how you organise your project in the Project Tree View. |
40 | | -For instance, you are now allowed to add as many root folders as you want, and as many of each kind |
41 | | -as you want. Several users have asked for the ability to add multiple Novel folders, so the old |
42 | | -restriction of only one of each has been removed.</p> |
43 | | -<p>You can now also move documents freely between all folders. The Status or Importance values will |
44 | | -switch place depending on the type of root folder your document is in, but the other value should |
45 | | -be preserved if you move the document back. Previously, they were saved as the same value in your |
46 | | -project, so moving them would imply they were overwritten. The new project file format introduced |
47 | | -with this release has no such restriction.</p> |
48 | | -<p>Your documents are now also able to have other documents as child items. This is another feature |
49 | | -added based on feedback. You no longer need to make a chapter folder and add chapter files inside |
50 | | -it together with the scene documents. You can add the scene documents directly under the chapter |
51 | | -document and drop the folder entirely. If needed, you can convert an existing folder into a |
52 | | -document at any time. However, you are not allowed to convert a document into a folder.</p> |
53 | | -<p>The check mark icon that previously indicated whether a document was included or not in a |
54 | | -manuscript build has been replaced with an active/inactive flag. This was done in preparation for |
55 | | -changes to the Build Novel Project tool which will come in the next release. The active/inactive |
56 | | -flag is now primarily just an indicator to you as the writer whether the document is to be |
57 | | -considered a part of your project or not. That said, an inactive setting still causes it to be |
58 | | -excluded from the Novel Tree View and the Novel Outline View.</p> |
59 | | -<p>The context (right click) menu for the Project Tree has also been updated. You can make nearly |
60 | | -all changes to the item directly from this menu, with the exception of editing the item label, |
61 | | -which still requires a dialog box.</p> |
62 | | -<p>The Split and Merge tools have been rewritten from scratch. You should now have multiple options |
63 | | -on how to structure the resulting document or documents. You can access the new tools from the |
64 | | -"Transform" submenu when right-clicking a project item that supports splitting or merging.</p> |
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66 | | -<h3>Novel and Outline View</h3> |
67 | | -<p>The Novel Tree View and Novel Outline View panels have been given a new design. The heading |
68 | | -level is now shown as an indent with a coloured bar that uses the same colour coding as the |
69 | | -document icons. They are technically no longer tree views, but rather a Table of Contents of a |
70 | | -specific novel root folder. If you have multiple novel root folders, you can select which one to |
71 | | -view.</p> |
72 | | -<p>In the Novel Tree View, you now also have the option to hide or show a third column of data. |
73 | | -Currently, you can choose between "Point of View Character", "Focus Character" and "Novel Plot". If |
74 | | -you referenced more than one in the document, the column will only show the first entry, so make |
75 | | -sure the most important one is listed first in your document if you use this feature. An arrow icon |
76 | | -is also visible at the end of each row in the tree, and if you click on it, a tool tip should pop |
77 | | -up showing you all the meta data collected for that specific heading in your text.</p> |
78 | | - |
79 | | -<h3>Other Changes</h3> |
80 | | -<p>There has been a lot of changes under the hood as well, especially in regards to how the project |
81 | | -structure is handled and saved. The project index has also been almost completely rewritten, and |
82 | | -now collects information about your project more efficiently. This improves the way the project |
83 | | -tree determines which document icon to show you, and it also makes the Novel Tree View more |
84 | | -informative as the data there is updated a lot more frequently.</p> |
85 | | -<p>The New Project Wizard has been updated with some new features, and simplified a bit. The |
86 | | -Project Settings dialog has been updated to reflect some of the same changes.</p> |
| 8 | +<p>This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please |
| 9 | +be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent |
| 10 | +backups.</p> |
| 11 | +<p>Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to |
| 12 | +the final release.</p> |
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88 | 14 | <p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p> |
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90 | | -<a name="patch"></a><h2>Patch Notes</h2> |
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92 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.1 – 29 November 2022</h3> |
93 | | - |
94 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a minor issues with loading custom GUI themes that haven't |
95 | | -been updated to include the icon theme setting. The patch also updates the French translation.</p> |
96 | | - |
97 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.2 – 1 December 2022</h3> |
98 | | - |
99 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a minor issues with syntax highlighting not updating when the |
100 | | -highlighting preferences were changed. It also fixes an issue that broke the FreeBSD release.</p> |
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102 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.3 – 8 January 2023</h3> |
103 | | - |
104 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a few bugs and usability issues. The editing of status and |
105 | | -importance labels in Project Settings should now be a bit more intuitive. Opening a document from |
106 | | -the Outline View that is already open in the editor should now switch to the editor view. The |
107 | | -convert folder to note or document feature in the project tree has also been fixed. Some icons have |
108 | | -been updated and a renderring issue with one of them fixed. Chinese, Norwegian, US English, German |
109 | | -and Spanish translations have been updated as well. A new credits tab has been added to the About |
110 | | -dialog box, replacing the Credits section on the main About tab.</p> |
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112 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.4 – 29 January 2023</h3> |
113 | | - |
114 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a bug where novelWriter would crash if PyQt5 version 5.15.8 |
115 | | -was installed and imported.</p> |
116 | | - |
117 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.5 – 12 February 2023</h3> |
118 | | - |
119 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a number of minor bugs and usability issues.</p> |
120 | | -<p>The Project Details dialog now properly updates when another project is opened, and the "Total |
121 | | -editing time" value has a less ambiguous time format. The editor no longer inserts blank lines if |
122 | | -block formats are applied to an empty line. The optional last column in the Novel Tree will now |
123 | | -show all items of the selected type, not only the first, and the column size can be adjusted from |
124 | | -the same menu where the column content is selected. The Open Document build output has been updated |
125 | | -to ODF 1.3 extended format, and passes validation.</p> |
126 | | -<p>An Italian translation has been added, and Russian is currently available for project builds. A |
127 | | -full translation into Russian is on its way.</p> |
128 | | - |
129 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.6 – 26 February 2023</h3> |
130 | | - |
131 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a few minor bugs and a broken feature.</p> |
132 | | -<p>When opening a document from the Novel Tree or Outline View, the Project Tree would receive |
133 | | -focus even when it was hidden. This has been corrected and no focus change is made. The Project |
134 | | -Tree now also receives focus automatically when a new Project Item is created.</p> |
135 | | -<p>The backlinks in the Reference Panel below the Document Viewer were no longer working. They have |
136 | | -now been fixed. They were broken due to a change in the link format in 2.0.</p> |
137 | | - |
138 | | -<h3>Patch 2.0.7 – 16 April 2023</h3> |
139 | | - |
140 | | -<p>This is a patch release that fixes a few issues and adds a Japanese translation.</p> |
141 | | -<p>The issues were mostly related to spell checking. In particular, issues with finding the word |
142 | | -boundary when using underscore characters for italics markup. These issues should now be resolved. |
143 | | -In addition, escaped markup characters are now renderred properly in HTML and ODT build formats.</p> |
144 | | -<p>A few usability improvements have also been made. The Add Item menu in the project tree no |
145 | | -longer shows the options to create Novel Documents when an item in the tree is selected that cannot |
146 | | -hold such a document. In addition, the "Change Label" context menu entry has been changed to say |
147 | | -"Rename", which is a more logical choice.</p> |
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