Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.0</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 28 November 2022</i></p>
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<p>Scroll down for <a href="#patch">Patch Notes</a></p>
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<p>This release includes a major update to the way your project is managed. It also modernises the
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user interface. The project file format has also been updated, and your projects will be upgraded
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the first time you open them in this release.</p>
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<p>There are some major changes under the hood in this release. A lot of the code has been
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rewritten and split up into smaller components. A lot of this is to make it more efficient, but
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also to make it more modular in preparation for planned future additions. Most of these changes
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don't affect you as the user, but there are also a number of big feature changes that you will
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notice.</p>
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<h3>User Interface Changes</h3>
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<p>The tabs used to switch between the Project Tree and Novel Tree, as well as between the Editor
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and Outline views, have been replaced with a side bar. The side bar is located on the left side of
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the main window, and gives you the option to select between "Project Tree View", "Novel Tree View"
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and "Outline Tree View". They correspond to the previous tabs.</p>
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<p>The side bar also includes a shortcut to the "Build Novel Project" tool. The "Project Details",
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"Writing Statistics" and "Settings" buttons that were previously below the project tree are now
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located at the bottom of the side bar.</p>
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<p>All three views have also been given updates. They each have a label and a toolbar. The Project
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Tree View has a dropdown with quick links to all your root folders, which should make it easier to
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navigate a large project tree. You can activate the link menu by pressing `Ctrl+L` while in the
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Project Tree, so you don't need to move your mouse.</p>
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<p>A dropdown menu with all the options for adding new items to your project has also been added to
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this toolbar. This too can be activated directly with a shortcut, `Ctrl+N`. More options are
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available under the menu button, and there are also a set of move up and down buttons for moving
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items.</p>
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<p>The Novel Tree View and Novel Outline View have also received toolbars and controls that let you
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select which data to show, and customise the view.</p>
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<h3>Changes to Project Structure</h3>
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<p>A number of changes have been made to how you organise your project in the Project Tree View.
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For instance, you are now allowed to add as many root folders as you want, and as many of each kind
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as you want. Several users have asked for the ability to add multiple Novel folders, so the old
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restriction of only one of each has been removed.</p>
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<p>You can now also move documents freely between all folders. The Status or Importance values will
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switch place depending on the type of root folder your document is in, but the other value should
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be preserved if you move the document back. Previously, they were saved as the same value in your
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project, so moving them would imply they were overwritten. The new project file format introduced
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with this release has no such restriction.</p>
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<p>Your documents are now also able to have other documents as child items. This is another feature
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added based on feedback. You no longer need to make a chapter folder and add chapter files inside
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it together with the scene documents. You can add the scene documents directly under the chapter
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document and drop the folder entirely. If needed, you can convert an existing folder into a
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document at any time. However, you are not allowed to convert a document into a folder.</p>
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<p>The check mark icon that previously indicated whether a document was included or not in a
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manuscript build has been replaced with an active/inactive flag. This was done in preparation for
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changes to the Build Novel Project tool which will come in the next release. The active/inactive
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flag is now primarily just an indicator to you as the writer whether the document is to be
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considered a part of your project or not. That said, an inactive setting still causes it to be
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excluded from the Novel Tree View and the Novel Outline View.</p>
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<p>The context (right click) menu for the Project Tree has also been updated. You can make nearly
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all changes to the item directly from this menu, with the exception of editing the item label,
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which still requires a dialog box.</p>
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<p>The Split and Merge tools have been rewritten from scratch. You should now have multiple options
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on how to structure the resulting document or documents. You can access the new tools from the
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"Transform" submenu when right-clicking a project item that supports splitting or merging.</p>
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<h3>Novel and Outline View</h3>
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<p>The Novel Tree View and Novel Outline View panels have been given a new design. The heading
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level is now shown as an indent with a coloured bar that uses the same colour coding as the
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document icons. They are technically no longer tree views, but rather a Table of Contents of a
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specific novel root folder. If you have multiple novel root folders, you can select which one to
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view.</p>
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<p>In the Novel Tree View, you now also have the option to hide or show a third column of data.
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Currently, you can chose between "Point of View Character", "Focus Character" and "Novel Plot". If
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you referenced more than one in the document, the column will only show the first entry, so make
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sure the most important one is listed first in your document if you use this feature. An arrow icon
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is also visible at the end of each row in the tree, and if you click on it, a tool tip should pop
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up showing you all the meta data collected for that specific heading in your text.</p>
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<h3>Other Changes</h3>
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<p>There has been a lot of changes under the hood as well, especially in regards to how the project
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structure is handled and saved. The project index has also been almost completely rewritten, and
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now collects information about your project more efficiently. This improves the way the project
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tree determines which document icon to show you, and it also makes the Novel Tree View more
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informative as the data there is updated a lot more frequently.</p>
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<p>The New Project Wizard has been updated with some new features, and simplified a bit. The
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Project Settings dialog has been updated to reflect some of the same changes.</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 2.0.1 – 29 November 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a patch release that fixes a minor issues with loading custom GUI themes that haven't
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been updated to include the icon theme setting. The patch also updates the French translation.</p>
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<h3>Patch 2.0.2 – 1 December 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a patch release that fixes a minor issues with syntax highlighting not updating when the
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highlighting preferences were changed. It also fixes an issue that broke the FreeBSD release.</p>
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<h3>Patch 2.0.3 – 8 January 2023</h3>
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<p>This is a patch release that fixes a few bugs and usability issues. The editing of status and
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importance labels in Project Settings should now be a bit more intuitive. Opening a document from
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the Outline View that is already open in the editor should now switch to the editor view. The
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convert folder to note or document feature in the project tree has also been fixed. Some icons have
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been updated and a renderring issue with one of them fixed. Chinese, Norwegian, US English, German
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and Spanish translations have been updated as well. A new credits tab has been added to the About
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dialog box, replacing the Credits section on the main About tab.</p>
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<h3>Patch 2.0.4 – 29 January 2023</h3>
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<p>This is a patch release that fixes a bug where novelWriter would crash if PyQt5 version 5.15.8
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was installed and imported.</p>
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