Release 2.7.2 (#2430)

Author: vkbo

CHANGELOG.md

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 # novelWriter Changelog
 
+## Version 2.7.2 [2025-06-24]
+
+### Release Notes
+
+This is a patch release that fixes several issues related to DocX and PDF manuscript documents,
+improves how line breaks, alignment and indentation is processed, and fixes some issues with
+displaying tags for novel documents on the user interface.
+
+### Detailed Changelog
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+* Fixed an issue where escaped markup characters were not replaced properly in DocX and PDF
+  documents, and in previews. Issue #2410. PR #2411.
+* Fixed an issue where titles with line breaks in them would have page breaks applied to both lines
+  for preview and PDF documents. Issue #2415. PR #2416.
+* Fixed an issue where the justified text setting would not be properly applied to a paragraph in a
+  manuscript document if there was a line break in the paragraph, but single line breaks were set
+  to be ignored. Issue #2426. PR #2427.
+* Fixed an issue where the "Tag" field of the Outline View details panel remained blank even if a
+  tag was set for the novel document. Issue #2428. PR #2429.
+
+**Improvements**
+
+* When comments are enabled in the viewer, story comments should also be visible. A separate filter
+  button will be added for this in 2.8. PR #2420.
+* When a paragraph has line breaks in it, the alignment tag will now override first line
+  indentation even if the alignment tag is not on the first line. This is more consistent with the
+  alignment behaviour for multi-line paragraphs in general. Issue #2425. PR #2427.
+* Tags will now be shown in the Novel View tooltip pop-out under the triangle button, together with
+  all the other meta data collected about a document or heading. PR #2429.
+
+**Documentation**
+
+* The documentation on how alignment and first line indentation works in conjunction with
+  in-paragraph line breaks, the setting to keep or ignore such line breaks, and the forced line
+  break shortcode, has been improved. Issue #2425. PR #2427.
+
+----
+
 ## Version 2.7.1 [2025-06-09]
 
 ### Release Notes

novelwriter/__init__.py

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 __author__     = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
 __maintainer__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
 __email__      = "[email protected]"
-__version__    = "2.7.1"
-__hexversion__ = "0x020701f0"
-__date__       = "2025-06-09"
+__version__    = "2.7.2"
+__hexversion__ = "0x020702f0"
+__date__       = "2025-06-24"
 __status__     = "Stable"
 __domain__     = "novelwriter.io"
 

sample/nwProject.nwx

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 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
-<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.7.1" hexVersion="0x020701f0" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="5" timeStamp="2025-06-24 16:14:48">
-  <project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="2208" autoCount="287" editTime="97150">
+<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.7.2" hexVersion="0x020702f0" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="5" timeStamp="2025-06-24 16:24:56">
+  <project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="2209" autoCount="287" editTime="97152">
     <name>Sample Project</name>
     <author>Jane Smith</author>
   </project>