Update the Introduction section of the docs to 2.6
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@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ your notes about your characters, your world building, and so on.
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You can at any point split the individual documents by their headings up into multiple documents,
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or merge multiple documents into a single document. This makes it easier to use variations of the
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Snowflake_ method for writing. You can start by writing larger structure-focused documents, like
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for instance one document per act, and later effortlessly split these up into chapters or scenes.
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for instance one document per act, and later effortlessly split these up into individual chapter or
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scene documents.
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.. _a_intro_features:
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@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ Below are some key features of novelWriter.
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The aim of the user interface is to let you focus on writing instead of spending time formatting
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text. Formatting is therefore limited to a small set of formatting tags for simple things like
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text emphasis and paragraph alignment. Additional shortcodes are available for special
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formatting cases.
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formatting cases when you need them.
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When you really want to focus on just writing, you can switch the editor into **Focus Mode**
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where only the text editor panel itself is visible, and the project structure view is hidden
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Your main story text lives in the "Novel" root folder. You can have multiple such folders in a
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project, and rename them to whatever you want. This allows you to keep a series of individual
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novels with the same characters and world building in the same project, and create manuscripts
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for them individually.
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for them separately.
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**Keep track of your story elements**
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All notes in your project can be assigned a :term:`tag` that you can then :term:`reference` from
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any other document or note. In fact, you can add a new tag under each heading of a note if you
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need to be able to reference specific sections of it, or you want to keep several topics in the
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same note.
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All documents in your project can be assigned a :term:`tag` that you can then :term:`reference`
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from any other document or note. In fact, you can add a new tag under each heading of a note if
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you need to be able to reference specific sections of it, or you want to keep several topics or
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scenes in the same document.
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**Get an overview of your story**
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It is not the documents themselves that define the chapters and scenes of your story, but the
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headings that separate them. In the **Outline View** on the main window you can see an outline
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of all the chapter and scene headings of each novel root folder in your project. If they have
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any references in them, like which character is in what chapter and scene, these are listed in
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headings within them. In the **Outline View** on the main window you can see an outline of all
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the chapter and scene headings of each novel root folder in your project. If they have any
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references in them, like which character is in what chapter and scene, these are listed in
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additional columns.
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You can also add a synopsis to each chapter or scene, which can be listed here as well. You have
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Whether you want to assemble a manuscript, or export all your notes, or generate an outline of
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your chapters and scenes with a synopsis included, you can use the **Build Manuscript** tool to
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do so. The tool lets you select what information you want to include in the generated document,
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and how it is formatted. You can send the result to a printer or PDF, or generate an Open
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Document file that can be opened by most office type word processors. You can also generate the
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result as HTML, or Markdown, both suitable for further conversion to other formats.
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and how it is formatted. You can send the result to a printer, or generate an Open Document or
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Word Document file that can be opened by most office type word processors. You can also generate
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the result as HTML, or Markdown, both suitable for further conversion to other formats.
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.. _a_intro_screenshots:
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