From 2fd940bcde1b3091d638c0c0d2dda22df5412979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Veronica K. B. Olsen" <1619840+vkbo@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 17:48:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation --- docs/source/usage_export.rst | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/source/usage_export.rst b/docs/source/usage_export.rst index 76ad3237..b9968e6b 100644 --- a/docs/source/usage_export.rst +++ b/docs/source/usage_export.rst @@ -102,6 +102,16 @@ document has a checkmark after the status icon in the :guilabel:`Flags` column. override these settings. +.. _a_export_print: + +Printing +======== + +The print button allows you to print the content in the preview window. You can either print to one +of your system's printers, or print directly to file. You can also print to file from the regular +print dialog. The direct to file option is just a shortcut. + + .. _a_export_formats: Export Formats @@ -110,21 +120,13 @@ Export Formats Currently, six formats are supported for exporting. OpenDocument Format - This produces an open document ``.odt`` file. The document produced has very little formatting, - and may require further editing afterwards. For a better formatted office document, you may get - a better result by exporting to HTML and then importing that HTML document into your office word - processor. They are generally good at importing HTML documents. - -PDF Format - The PDF export is just a shortcut for print-to-file. For a better PDF result, you may instead - want to export to HTML and use a word processor to convert the HTML document to PDF. + The Build tool can produce either an ``.odt`` file, of a ``.fodt`` file. The latter is just a + flat version of the document format as a single XML file. novelWriter HTML The HTML export format writes a single ``.htm`` file with minimal style formatting. The exported HTML document is suitable for further processing by document conversion tools like Pandoc, for - importing in word processors, or for printing from browser. It is generally the best formatted - export option and supports all features of novelWriter since it is entirely generated by the - application and doesn't depend on Qt library features. + importing in word processors, or for printing from browser. novelWriter Markdown This is simply a concatenation of the project documents selected by the filters. The documents @@ -132,12 +134,10 @@ novelWriter Markdown included if they are selected. This is a useful format for exporting the project for later import back into novelWriter. -Standard Markdown - If you have Qt 5.14 or higher, the option to export to plain markdown is available. This feature - uses Qt's own markdown export feature. - -Plain Text - The plain text export format writes a simple ``.txt`` file without any formatting at all. +Standard/GitHub Markdown + The Markdown export format comes in both Standard and GitHub flavour. The *only* difference in + terms of novelWriter functionality is the support of strikethrough text, which is not supported + by the Standard flavour, but *is* supported by the GitHub flavour. .. _a_export_options: