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Rename package from 'nw' to 'novelwriter' (#868)

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* Rename nw folder to novelwriter
* Rename nw to novelwriter in auxiliary files
* Rename nw to novelwriter in main app source
* Rename nw to novelwriter in tests
* Make setup script for pdf docs less spammy
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.5 Beta 1</h2>
<p><i>Released on 22 August 2021</i></p>
<p>This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please
be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you make frequent
backups.</p>
<p>This release introduces a new project file format, which has been given a file format version
1.3. The project file and index is updated automatically when you open the project, which means you
can no longer open it in an older version of novelWriter.</p>
<p>You may also have to make a handful of changes in your novel documents as these are not updated
automatically. However, the changes are minimal and in any case only affects the way your
manuscript looks like when exported via the Build Novel Project tool. The details are described
below.</p>
<h4>Novel Document Layouts</h4>
<p>The main change in this release is the significant simplification of document layouts.
Previously, there were seven different layouts available for novel documents, in addition to the
one layout for project notes. The original intention of these layouts were partially to define some
default formatting behaviour when exporting your project, and partially a way to indicate whether a
specific document was a partition, chapter or scene.</p>
<p>With this release, all the seven layouts for novel documents have been merged into a single
layout called simply "Novel Document". The other layout for "Project Note" remains unchanged. The
functionality provided by the various novel layouts have been implemented in other ways, and a few
new formatting codes have been added to accommodate the formatting functionality lost with the
removal of the layouts. They are all available in the Format and Insert menu.</p>
<p>The changes you need to make to your project should be limited to altering a handful of titles
and maybe insert a page break code here and there. The only title formats you need to update are
those for the main novel title and for your unnumbered chapters, if you have any.</p>
<p>Novel titles need to be altered from "<span class="alt"># Novel Title</span>" to
"<span class="alt">#! Novel Title</span>" and unnumbered chapters from "<span class="alt">##
Chapter Name</span>" or "<span class="alt">## *Chapter Name</span>" to "<span class="alt">##!
Chapter Name</span>". That is all. For inserting page breaks, you can add a single line with the
command "<span class="alt">[NEW PAGE]</span>" where you want the break to be inserted. As before,
page breaks are automatically inserted in front of all partition and chapter titles.</p>
<p>You will find these changes described in more detail the documentation in the
"<a href="https://novelwriter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage_projectformat.html#a-prjfmt-1-3">Format
1.3 Changes</a>" section.</p>
<h4>GUI Changes</h4>
<p>Due to the above changes, the GUI has been altered a bit. The main changes are in the project
tree. These changes are also reflected in the details panel below the project tree, and to a lesser
extent in the Outline tab.</p>
<p>The layouts were previously a way to indicate the purpose of a specific novel document, like
whether it was a chapter or scene. With these layouts gone, the distinction is instead indicated by
other visual means.</p>
<p>The project index will now record the level of the first header of your document, and select a
different icon for documents with a partition, chapter or scene header. These are colour coded as
green, red and blue respectively. This only works for the coloured icon themes. The project notes
have also received a new icon, with a yellow colour code.</p>
<p>In addition, novel documents with a partition or chapter header will have the document label
viewed as bold and underlined. This feature can be disabled in Preferences if you want a cleaner
look in the project tree.</p>
<h4>Other Changes</h4>
<p>Several improvements have been made to the project index, which means the index will be
automatically rebuilt when you open a project for the first time in the new version. You will get a
notification about this.</p>
<p>The ODT export tool has also been improved. The code that writes out text paragraphs has been
rewritten and now conforms more closely to the Open Document standard. Most of these improvements
will not be noticeable to you as a user, but you may notice that the exported document will now
allow multiple consecutive spaces. Previously, two spaces, or more, would be concatenated into a
single space in the exported document.</p>
<p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p>
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