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<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.3</h2>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.4 Beta 1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 13 June 2021</i></p>
<p>This patch release fixes a potential file encoding issue when running setup on Windows, and a
minor issue with the project word count not being updated immediately when a file is deleted. In
addition, the keyboard shortcuts to change focus between the project tree, the editor, the viewer,
and the outline panel, have been changed for Windows users. They keyboard shortcuts were
interfering with the Alt codes used for special characters. The shortcuts are unchanged for Linux
and macOS.</p>
<p>This is a preview release of novelWriter 1.4. It contains some new features and a lot of code
refactoring. This release is a testing release, and may contain bugs. Please be careful when using
this version to work on your projects.</p>
<p>Below are the main feature changes of this release.</p>
<h3>Line Breaks</h3>
<p>The way line breaks inside paragraphs work has been changed. A single line break is now treated
as a proper line break and will show up in the document viewer and exported documents. A single
line break does not start a new paragraph, but forces a break inside the paragraph like a Shift +
Enter does in most rich text editors. Two line breaks is still needed to start a new paragraph.</p>
<p>The old syntax of adding two spaces to force a line break within a paragraph will still work
as before, so there is no need to change your existing text if you've used this feature. However,
there is a new highlighting feature that will show you where in the text you have redundant spaces.
If you are used to having double spaces between sentences, you may want to switch off this
highlighting feature in Preferences as it will also detect those.</p>
<p>A helper function has been added to the Format menu that can look through a paragraph and remove
line breaks in case you've been using line breaks inside your existing text under the assumption
that the exporter and viewer will ignore them.</p>
<p>I hope this change will not be too inconvenient. I believe the new behaviour will make more
sense for most people. Especially considering some of the feedback I've gotten on how line breaks
work. The original implementation was following the Markdown standard, but since novelWriter is not
a proper Markdown editor and instead just borrows from Markdown, this behaviour always seemed a bit
unnecessary.</p>
<h3>Text Alignment and Indentation</h3>
<p>The default text alignment is left or justified based on your preferences. For documents with
the layout set to Title Page or Partitions, the default is centred. However, sometimes you may
want to override this default. A new set of codes have therefore been added to allow specifying
alignment as well as additional text margins on individual paragraphs.</p>
<p>The logic of the syntax is as follows:</p>
<p>A single angle bracket will push the text away from the edge it points away from. Therefore, a
single '&gt;' before the paragraph, or a single '&lt;' after the paragraph, will add indentation on
the respective side. It's perfectly valid to do this on both sides at the same time.</p>
<p>A double set of angle brackets will push the text all the way towards the opposite aide.
Therefore, a double set of '&gt;&gt;' before the paragraph will indicate right alignment, and a
double set of '&lt;&lt;' after the paragraph will force left alignment. Also here both can be used
at the same time, which results in the paragraph being centred.</p>
<p>Format menu entries and keyboard shortcuts have been added so that you don't have to memorise
these codes.</p>
<p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p>
<hr/>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.2</h2>
<p><i>Released on 30 May 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a patch release that fixes some minor issues. One issue was with the split tool, which
would drop the last line from the source document during a split if it was missing a final line
break. A minor issue with the display of word counts on the details panel under the project tree
has also been fixed. In addition, the setup script commands for Linux have been improved a bit.</p>
<hr/>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 6 May 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a patch release primarily to fix a problem with the Qt translation library used to make
novelWriter available in multiple languages. One of the function calls made to the library was
added recently, in Qt 5.15, which many users on Linux will not have installed on their system. The
issue could be resolved by updating the library, but it's an unnecessary and inconvenient
restriction.</p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.3</h2>
<p><i>Released on 2 May 2021</i></p>
<p>The main feature of the 1.3 release is internationalisation. The release introduces support for
Portuguese, French, and Norwegian for the main GUI, in addition to the default English. The
settings for choosing the GUI language can be found in the main Preferences.</p>
<p>The implementation is such that the projects themselves can use a different language than the
one selected for the GUI. To allow for better support for multiple language projects, the Build
Novel Project tool has the added option to select the language of the injected text into exported
documents. In particularly for the number words that can be added for chapter headers. Available
languages here are the same as mentioned above for the main GUI, plus German.</p>
<p>Settings have also been added in Preferences to allow for automatic injection of spaces or
non-breaking spaces in front of, or behind, certain characters. These are features generally
available in text editors for French, but the implementation in novelWriter simply makes them a
free text box where you can list all characters or symbols where you want a space added
automatically.</p>
<p>The translation files for this release have been provided by Bruno Meneguello for the Portuguese
translation, by Jan Lüdke (jyhelle) for the French translation, by Veronica Berglyd Olsen for the
Norwegian translation as well as the minor modifications for US English, and Marian Lückhof
provided the translation file for chapter numbers in German.</p>
<p>The work to rewrite novelWriter to allow for internationalisation was done by Bruno Meneguello
and Veronica Berglyd Olsen.</p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.3</h2>
<p><i>Released on 13 June 2021</i></p>
<p>This patch release fixes a potential file encoding issue when running setup on Windows, and a
minor issue with the project word count not being updated immediately when a file is deleted. In
addition, the keyboard shortcuts to change focus between the project tree, the editor, the viewer,
and the outline panel, have been changed for Windows users. They keyboard shortcuts were
interfering with the Alt codes used for special characters. The shortcuts are unchanged for Linux
and macOS.</p>
<p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p>
<hr/>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.2</h2>
<p><i>Released on 30 May 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a patch release that fixes some minor issues. One issue was with the split tool, which
would drop the last line from the source document during a split if it was missing a final line
break. A minor issue with the display of word counts on the details panel under the project tree
has also been fixed. In addition, the setup script commands for Linux have been improved a bit.</p>
<hr/>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.3.1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 6 May 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a patch release primarily to fix a problem with the Qt translation library used to make
novelWriter available in multiple languages. One of the function calls made to the library was
added recently, in Qt 5.15, which many users on Linux will not have installed on their system. The
issue could be resolved by updating the library, but it's an unnecessary and inconvenient
restriction.</p>
<hr/>
<h2>Release Notes for 1.3</h2>
<p><i>Released on 2 May 2021</i></p>
<p>The main feature of the 1.3 release is internationalisation. The release introduces support for
Portuguese, French, and Norwegian for the main GUI, in addition to the default English. The
settings for choosing the GUI language can be found in the main Preferences.</p>
<p>The implementation is such that the projects themselves can use a different language than the
one selected for the GUI. To allow for better support for multiple language projects, the Build
Novel Project tool has the added option to select the language of the injected text into exported
documents. In particularly for the number words that can be added for chapter headers. Available
languages here are the same as mentioned above for the main GUI, plus German.</p>
<p>Settings have also been added in Preferences to allow for automatic injection of spaces or
non-breaking spaces in front of, or behind, certain characters. These are features generally
available in text editors for French, but the implementation in novelWriter simply makes them a
free text box where you can list all characters or symbols where you want a space added
automatically.</p>
<p>The translation files for this release have been provided by Bruno Meneguello for the Portuguese
translation, by Jan Lüdke (jyhelle) for the French translation, by Veronica Berglyd Olsen for the
Norwegian translation as well as the minor modifications for US English, and Marian Lückhof
provided the translation file for chapter numbers in German.</p>
<p>The work to rewrite novelWriter to allow for internationalisation was done by Bruno Meneguello
and Veronica Berglyd Olsen.</p>
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