Release 2.2 Beta 1 (#1595)
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# novelWriter Changelog
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## Version 2.2 Beta 1 [2023-11-11]
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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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* novelWriter has a new logo and icon. PR #1593.
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* The Document Editor is now a true plain text editor. This has a number of benefits and a couple
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of drawbacks. The most important benefits is that the editor responds a lot faster, and can hold
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much larger text documents. The big document limit has therefore been removed. It mostly affected
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automatic spell checking. The syntax highlighter and spell checker are also more efficient, which
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allows for needed improvements to these. The drawbacks are mainly that the editor now scrolls one
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line at a time, instead of scrolling pixel by pixel like before. PRs #1521 and #1525.
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* Tags and References are now case insensitive. Their display name on the user interface remains
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the same as the value set for the `@tag` entry. Issue #1313. PRs #1522 and #1578.
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* Keywords for Tags and References, and the References themselves, now have an auto-complete menu
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that pops up in the editor on lines starting with the `@` character. It will first suggest what
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keyword you want to use, and when it has been added, use that keyword to look up suggestions for
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references to add. The suggestions improve as you type by looking for the characters you've
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already typed in the tags you've previously defined. Issue #823. PR #1581.
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* You can now right-click an undefined tag, and a context menu option to create a Project Note for
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that tag will appear in the menu. On selection, it will create a note in the first root folder of
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the correct kind, and set the title and tag to match the undefined reference, making it instantly
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defined. Issues #1580 and #823. PR #1582.
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* Shortcodes have been added to the Document Editor. Shorcodes are HTML-like syntax, but uses
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square brackets instead of angular brackets. So `[b]text[/b]` will make the word "text" appear as
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bold. Shortcodes currently support bold, italic, striketrough, underline, superscript and
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subscript text. The first three are complimentary to the Markdown-like syntax that. The benefit
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of the shortcode emphasis syntax, however, is that it does not care about word boundaries, and
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can therefore be used any place in the text. Including in the middle of words. Issues #1337 and
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#1444. PRs #1540 and #1583.
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* A show/hide toolbar has been added to the editor where toolbuttons for formatting options are
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available. The toolbar is hidden by default, but can be activated from a three dots icon in the
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top left corner of the editor. Issue #1585. PR #1584.
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* Build Definitions in the Manuscript Build tool can now be re-ordered, and the order is preserved
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when the tool is closed and re-opened. Issue #1542. PR #1591.
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**Usability**
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* The Settings menu in the sidebar now always pops out to the right and upwards from the bottom of
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the icon. The previous behaviour was not guaranteed to stay in the vissible area of the screen.
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PR #1520.
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* The right click action on a misspelled word now uses the actual spell checker data for lookup.
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Previously, the spell checker would underline a word that was misspelled, but the right click
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action actually had no way of reading where the error line was, so it had to guess again what
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word the user was clicking. Since these two parts of the code used different logic, they
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sometimes produced different results. The spell checker now saves the location of each spell
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check error, and the right click action retrieves this data when genrating suggestions, which
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should eliminate the problem of picking the correct word boundaries. Issue #1532. PR #1525.
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* The language of a project is not set in the New Project Wizard and in Project Settings. It is no
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longer defined in the Build Settings panel. Issue #1588. PR #1589.
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* The way switching focus and view in the main GUi has changed. Pressing `Ctrl+T` will now switch
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focus to the Project or Novel Tree if focus is elsewhere, or if either have focus already, it
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will switch view to the other tree. Pressing `Ctrl+E` will switch focus and view to the Document
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Editor. Pressing `Ctrl+Shift+T` will do the same for the Outline View. The old Alt-based shorcuts
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have been removed. Issues #1310 and #1291. PR #1590.
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**User Interface**
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* The labels under the sidebar buttons have been removed. The tooltips have the necessary
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information. PR #1520.
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**Other Improvements**
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* Also the Tags and References keywords are now translated into the project language when these are
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included in Manuscript builds. As long as the phrases have been translated. PR #1586.
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## Version 2.1.1 [2023-11-05]
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### Release Notes
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+5
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from novelwriter.config import Config
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from novelwriter.shared import SharedData
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##
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# Version Scheme
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# ================
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# Generally follows PEP 440
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# Hex Version:
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# - Digit 1,2 : Major Version (01-ff)
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# - Digit 3,4 : Minor Version (01-ff)
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# - Digit 5,6 : Patch Version (01-ff)
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# - Digit 7 : Release Type (a: alpha, b: beta, c: candidate, f: final)
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# - Digit 8 : Release Number (0-f)
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#
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# Example : Full Short Description
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# --------------------------------------------------------------------
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# 0x010200a0 : 1.2-alpha0 1.2a0 Use while developing next release
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# 0x010200a1 : 1.2-alpha1 1.2a1 First alpha release
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# 0x010200b1 : 1.2-beta1 1.2b1 First beta release
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# 0x010200c1 : 1.2-rc1 1.2rc1 First release candidate
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# 0x010200f0 : 1.2.0 1.2.0 Final release
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# 0x010201f0 : 1.2.1 1.2.1 Patch release
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##
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# Package Meta
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# ============
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__package__ = "novelwriter"
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__copyright__ = "Copyright 2018–2023, Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
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__author__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
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__maintainer__ = "Veronica Berglyd Olsen"
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__email__ = "code@vkbo.net"
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__version__ = "2.2-alpha1"
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__hexversion__ = "0x020200a1"
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__date__ = "2023-09-01"
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__version__ = "2.2-beta1"
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__hexversion__ = "0x020200b1"
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__date__ = "2023-11-12"
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__status__ = "Stable"
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__domain__ = "novelwriter.io"
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<html>
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<body>
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 17 October 2023</i></p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.2 Beta 1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 11 November 2023</i></p>
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<p>Scroll down for <a href="#patch">Patch Notes</a></p>
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<p>The primary focus of this release has been a complete redesign of the Build Tool, that is, the
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tool that assembles your project into a manuscript document. The new tool, called the "Manuscript
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Build Tool" allows you to define multiple build definitions for your project. The build definitions
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are edited in a new Manuscript Build Settings dialog, with a lot more options than the old tool.</p>
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<p>The reason for this redesign is a long list of feature requests that could not easily be
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accommodated in the old, much simpler tool. Far from all the features have been added yet, but now
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that the new tool is in place, they will be gradually added in the coming releases.</p>
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<p>The key feature added in this release is the extended control you now have for selecting exactly
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what part of your project is included in a given build definition. You have the same filters for
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selecting documents and notes, and turning on or off root folders as before, but you can now easily
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override on a per-document basis what is included or excluded in addition to the filter.</p>
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<p>A second major improvement is a better tool to format your manuscript headings. You no longer
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have to look up formatting codes and add them manually. Instead, there is now a heading format
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editor in the Build Settings dialog for creating the header format, with syntax highlighting
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included.</p>
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<h3>Other Changes</h3>
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<p>Among other features is a new option to duplicate documents and folders in the project tree. The
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duplicate feature is available from the right-click menu. A proper light colour theme has also been
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added. In most cases it will be the same as the default theme, depending on your platform.</p>
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<p>There are other, minor improvements as well, and a lot of code improvements under the hood. For
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a full list of changes, see the detailed changelogs.</p>
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<p>This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please
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be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent
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backups.</p>
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<p>Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to
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the final release.</p>
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<p><i>See also the <a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases">Releases</a> page.</i></p>
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<a name="patch"></a><h2>Patch Notes</h2>
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<h3>Patch 2.2.1 – 5 November 2023</h3>
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<p>This is a patch release that fixes a layout issue and internationalisation issues with the new
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Manuscript Build tool. It also fixes a number of issues related to bugs in the underlying Qt
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framework that affects drag and drop functionality in the project tree. These issues were mostly
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only affecting Debian Linux package releases.</p>
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<p>Other, minor issues related to updating the editor on colour theme change and project word list
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changes have been fixed as well. See the full changelog for more details.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
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<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.2-alpha1" hexVersion="0x020200a1" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="1" timeStamp="2023-11-06 11:44:21">
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<project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="1609" autoCount="255" editTime="81165">
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<novelWriterXML appVersion="2.2-beta1" hexVersion="0x020200b1" fileVersion="1.5" fileRevision="1" timeStamp="2023-11-11 22:48:30">
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<project id="e2be99af-f9bf-4403-857a-c3d1ac25abea" saveCount="1611" autoCount="255" editTime="81193">
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<name>Sample Project</name>
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<title>Sample Project</title>
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<author>Jane Smith</author>
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<entry key="i56be10" count="1" red="117" green="0" blue="175">Main</entry>
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</importance>
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</settings>
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<content items="27" novelWords="989" notesWords="409">
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<content items="27" novelWords="987" notesWords="409">
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<item handle="7031beac91f75" parent="None" root="7031beac91f75" order="0" type="ROOT" class="NOVEL">
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<meta expanded="yes" />
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<name status="sc24b8f" import="ia857f0">Novel</name>
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<name status="sc24b8f" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Title Page</name>
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</item>
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<item handle="974e400180a99" parent="7031beac91f75" root="7031beac91f75" order="1" type="FILE" class="NOVEL" layout="DOCUMENT">
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<meta expanded="no" heading="H0" charCount="269" wordCount="51" paraCount="3" cursorPos="275" />
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<meta expanded="no" heading="H0" charCount="250" wordCount="49" paraCount="2" cursorPos="275" />
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<name status="sf12341" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Page</name>
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</item>
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<item handle="edca4be2fcaf8" parent="7031beac91f75" root="7031beac91f75" order="2" type="FILE" class="NOVEL" layout="DOCUMENT">
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<name status="sf24ce6" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Chapter One</name>
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</item>
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<item handle="636b6aa9b697b" parent="6a2d6d5f4f401" root="7031beac91f75" order="0" type="FILE" class="NOVEL" layout="DOCUMENT">
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<meta expanded="no" heading="H3" charCount="2901" wordCount="513" paraCount="15" cursorPos="749" />
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<meta expanded="no" heading="H3" charCount="2901" wordCount="513" paraCount="15" cursorPos="48" />
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<name status="s90e6c9" import="ia857f0" active="yes">Making a Scene</name>
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</item>
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<item handle="bc0cbd2a407f3" parent="6a2d6d5f4f401" root="7031beac91f75" order="1" type="FILE" class="NOVEL" layout="DOCUMENT">
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