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‎CHANGELOG.md‎

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# novelWriter Changelog
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## Version 2.8 RC 1 [2025-11-30]
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### Release Notes
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This is a release candidate of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes.
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Please be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent
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backups.
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### Detailed Changelog
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**Bugfixes**
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* Fixed a bug that would block the return key in the editor if French style space padding was
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enabled in Preferences. Issue #2586. PR #2587.
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* Fixed an issue where dialog state was no longer saved properly when they were closed for many
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dialogs. This may be due to a change in the Qt framework, or a bug from a previous release.
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PR #2585.
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* Fixed an issue where a confusing error would show up if the user cancelled the file dialog during
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example project creation. A new dialog now tells you what the actual issue was and sends you back
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to the welcome dialog. Issue #2590. PR #2592.
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**Features**
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* Vim mode has been added to the editor, and can now be enabled in Preferences. Contributed by
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@idealemu. Issue #2493. PRs #2499 and #2588.
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**Improvements**
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* Using format button from the editor toolbar will not apply the formatting on lines that cannot
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take formatting, like headings and meta data lines. Issue #2560. PR #2575.
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* Added an option in Preferences that will try to centre the main app windows during startup. This
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effect is always triggered if the main window is scaled down at startup due to being opened on a
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smaller screen. Issue #2579. PRs #2580 and #2581.
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* The example project has been updated and improved. Issue #2570. PRs #2572 and #2574.
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* The spacing between icon and text in push buttons has been increased. PR #2582.
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* The font selection dialog now remembers its previous size, and uses the new standard push buttons
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instead of the Qt defaults. PR #2584.
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* It is now possible to override the manuscript language meta value for document formats that have
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this. The IETF BCP 47 language tag is used. Issue #2328. PR #2593.
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**Internationalisation**
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* Updated US English, Italian, Norwegian, and Japanese translations. PR #2589.
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## Version 2.8 Beta 1 [2025-10-29]
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‎docs/source/usage/howto.rst‎

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Managing the Project
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Your Project
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.. dropdown:: How do I create a project from a template?
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Settings** from the respective configuration tabs. You can then import these labels in another
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.. dropdown:: How do I add introductory text to chapters?
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:animate: fade-in-slide-down
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Sometimes chapters have a short preface, like a brief piece of text or a quote to set the stage
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before the first scene begins.
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If you add separate files for chapters and scenes, the chapter file is the perfect place to add
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such text. Separating chapter and scene files also allows you to make scene files child
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documents of the chapter.
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.. dropdown:: How do I distinguishing between soft and hard scene breaks?
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:animate: fade-in-slide-down
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Depending on your writing style, you may need to separate between soft and hard scene breaks
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within chapters. Like for instance if you switch point-of-view character often.
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In such cases you may want to use different scene headings for hard and soft scene breaks. The
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**Build Manuscript** tool will let you define a different format for scenes using the ``###``
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and ``###!`` heading codes when you generate your manuscript. You can for instance add the
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common "``* * *``" for hard breaks and select to hide soft scene breaks, which will just insert
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an empty paragraph in their place. See :ref:`docs_ui_manuscript_settings` for more details.
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.. versionadded:: 2.4
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.. dropdown:: How can I set the language for my manuscript?
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The language set for manuscript documents like Open Document and Word Document is taken from
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your project language setting in **Project Settings**. Only some languages are available here,
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but you can override the language information by setting the "Override Document Language" value
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in your Manuscript Build settings to a valid language code. The code uses the
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`IETF BCP 47 language tag <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag>`__ format.
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Examples: ``en`` for English, ``de`` for German, etc.
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If you want to help add new languages to novelWriter, see: :ref:`docs_contributing`.
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Application Usage
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The Application
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**Build Manuscript** tool will let you define a different format for scenes using the ``###``
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.. _Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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.. _Crowding: https://crowdin.com/project/novelwriter
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In a nutshell, novelWriter is a plain text editor that lets you organise one or more novels, and
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Contributing
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This project relies on contributions to add new features. In particular, adding translations into
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other languages, or updating translations for existing languages, is particularly useful.
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For code contributions, please read the official `Contributing Guide`_.
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For translations, please use the project page on Crowdin_. For each language, there are two
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translation sets. One for the application itself, labelled "Main GUI". This is a fairly large
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dataset to translate. A smaller set called "Project Exports" is also available. The latter is what
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makes a language available in **Project Settings** in the application. It is a fairly small set to
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translate, and you can choose to translate only this set if you wish. If the language you wish to
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contribute to is not available in the list, you can message the maintainer on the Crowdin page to
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