Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.4 Beta 1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 13 June 2021</i></p>
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<p>This is a preview release of novelWriter 1.4. It contains some new features and a lot of code
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refactoring. This release is a testing release, and may contain bugs. Please be careful when using
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this version to work on your projects.</p>
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<p>Below are the main feature changes of this release.</p>
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<h3>Line Breaks</h3>
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<p>The way line breaks inside paragraphs work has been changed. A single line break is now treated
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as a proper line break and will show up in the document viewer and exported documents. A single
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line break does not start a new paragraph, but forces a break inside the paragraph like a Shift +
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Enter does in most rich text editors. Two line breaks is still needed to start a new paragraph.</p>
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<p>The old syntax of adding two spaces to force a line break within a paragraph will still work
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as before, so there is no need to change your existing text if you've used this feature. However,
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there is a new highlighting feature that will show you where in the text you have redundant spaces.
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If you are used to having double spaces between sentences, you may want to switch off this
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highlighting feature in Preferences as it will also detect those.</p>
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<p>A helper function has been added to the Format menu that can look through a paragraph and remove
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line breaks in case you've been using line breaks inside your existing text under the assumption
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that the exporter and viewer will ignore them.</p>
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<p>I hope this change will not be too inconvenient. I believe the new behaviour will make more
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sense for most people. Especially considering some of the feedback I've gotten on how line breaks
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work. The original implementation was following the Markdown standard, but since novelWriter is not
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a proper Markdown editor and instead just borrows from Markdown, this behaviour always seemed a bit
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unnecessary.</p>
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<h3>Text Alignment and Indentation</h3>
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<p>The default text alignment is left or justified based on your preferences. For documents with
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the layout set to Title Page or Partitions, the default is centred. However, sometimes you may
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want to override this default. A new set of codes have therefore been added to allow specifying
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alignment as well as additional text margins on individual paragraphs.</p>
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<p>The logic of the syntax is as follows:</p>
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<p>A single angle bracket will push the text away from the edge it points away from. Therefore, a
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single '>' before the paragraph, or a single '<' after the paragraph, will add indentation on
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the respective side. It's perfectly valid to do this on both sides at the same time.</p>
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<p>A double set of angle brackets will push the text all the way towards the opposite aide.
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Therefore, a double set of '>>' before the paragraph will indicate right alignment, and a
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double set of '<<' after the paragraph will force left alignment. Also here both can be used
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at the same time, which results in the paragraph being centred.</p>
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<p>Format menu entries and keyboard shortcuts have been added so that you don't have to memorise
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these codes.</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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