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# novelWriter Changelog
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## Version 1.6 Beta 1 [2022-01-04]
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### Release Notes
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This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
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Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the
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final release.
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### Detailed Changelog
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**Features**
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* When text is selected in the editor, the word counter in the editor's footer bar shows the number
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of selected words instead of the total document word count. Feature Request #896. PR #899.
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* The way page breaks are automatically and manually added has been improved: The Title format no
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longer has an automatic page break, Partition and Chapter formats now always have a page break,
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Scene and Section headers can now have page breaks added manually, and empty scene header format
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will now result in a larger gap between scenes. Feature Request #912. PR #916.
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* The Enter, Return and Ctrl+O keyboard shortcuts now open the selected document or item on the
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tree that has focus. That is, on the Project Tree, Novel Tree, or in the Outline Tab. Previously,
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these key strokes only affected the Project Tree. Feature Request #913. PR #945.
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* The search tool in the document editor now shows the number of search results when the search
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button is clicked. When the replace tool is used, this number changes if the search result does.
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Feature Request #645. PRs #946 and #947.
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**Other Changes**
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* The icon themes have been merged and reduced to two complete themes, and the Preferences switch
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for additional dark icons has been removed. The user either selects the Typicons Dark or Light
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theme. No need to match further settings. PR #893.
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* Custom GUI themes and syntax themes can now be loaded from the user's data path. The actual
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storage path is determined by the OS. Part of Feature Request #892. PR #893.
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* A number of text messages and labels on the GUI have been improved. Issue #923. PR #926.
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* The switch in Preferences to disbale fixed width text in the editor has been removed. Instead,
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the user just sets the fixed with setting to 0 to disable it. The settings is now also applied to
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the document viewer as well. Issue #924. PR #943.
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* The Open Document export file produced from the build tool is now more LibreOffice and OpenOffice
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friendly by using the same default styles as these editors do. Issue #948. PR #949.
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* When a document is saved from the document editor, the disk on file is checked for external
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changes before it is overwritten. Such changes can arise from editing the file from another tool
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at the same time, from file sync issues, or even from file system issues. If an inconsistency is
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discovered, the user is asked to confirm the overwrite. Issue #878. PR #890.
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**Internationalisation**
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* A couple of missing translations, and typos, have been fixed. PRs #921 and #926.
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* Latin American Spanish translation has been added by Tommy Marplatt (@tmarplatt). PR #927.
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**Bugfixes**
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* Fixed an issue where greater or lesser than symbols used in text paragraphs which also has
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formatting tags would cause the formatting tags to be shifted in HTML output. Issue #929. PR 928.
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This fix was backported to 1.5 as patch 1.5.2. A secondary bug was reported in Issue #950, fixed
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in PR #951, and backported to 1.5. as patch 1.5.4.
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**Documentation**
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* Documentation has been updated to reflect changes and new features. PRs #903, and #916.
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* The Readme file for internationalisation has been updated and improved. Contributed by Tommy
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Marplatt (@tmarplatt) PR #917.
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**Installation and Packaging**
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* The Cantarell font is no longer included in the source and releases. PR #893.
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* The way icons are loaded is now simpler and there is no longer a bunch of fallback options. The
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icon sets have been reduced to just two complete folders of coloured Typicons: one for dark and
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one for light backgrounds. PR #893.
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* Fixed a couple of issues in the Windows setup scripts where the user never saw the error message
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reporting on missing Python as the window would close before the user would be able to read the
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error. PR #903.
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**Code Improvements**
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* Cleaned up log output, formatting, docstrings, and various other code structure and debug related
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parts of the source. PRs #904, #926, #930, and #947.
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* Optimised various code snippets, either for performance or readability. The code now makes more
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use of Python list comprehension and built-in functions for iterables. PRs #904, and #926.
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* Tightened up many of the internal classes, making attributes private, and add setter and getter
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functions where that makes sense. PRs #904, #931, and #937.
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* The tools for adding and updating translation files have been improved. The Qt-specific `.pro`
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file has been dropped, and instead the setup tool will scan the entire source tree each time
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language files are updated. TS files can also be specified to the command, or if none are
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specified, all files are updated. PR #915.
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* The language file update command in the setup tool now uses the pylupdate6 tool from PyQt6, which
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has been included directly in the `i18n` folder. This tool uses the newer TS file format, which
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the standard PyQt5 tool does not. Related to #911. PR #920.
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----
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## Version 1.5.4 [2022-01-04]
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### Release Notes
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@@ -204,7 +295,7 @@ _These Release Notes also include the changes from 1.5 Beta 1, Beta 2, and RC 1.
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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 make frequent
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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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### Release Notes
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This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you make frequent backups.
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
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### Detailed Changelog
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### Release Notes
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This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you make frequent backups.
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careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
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### Detailed Changelog
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