Veronica K. B. Olsen
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2.4 KiB
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56 lines
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Introduction
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novelWriter is a simple, multi-document plain text editor using a modified markdown syntax to apply simple formatting.
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Additional features that are not standard markdown are available through special meta data keywords.
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These keywords make it possible to inter-link documents, and generate an overview of the entire novel project and how the various files are interconnected.
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Design Philosophy
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The user interface is intended to be as minimalistic as practically possible, while at the same time provide a complete set of features needed for writing a novel.
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.. note::
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novelWriter is not intended to be a full office type word processor.
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It doesn't support images, links, tables, and its formatting is limited to headers, and bold, italicised and underlined text.
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Most features are accessible through the menu and through keyboard shortcuts.
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The colour scheme of the user interface can be modified with various themes, and new themes are fairly straight forward to add.
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The project itself is laid out in a tree view on the left hand side of the main window.
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It has various sections, called *root folders*, for the various types of supporting files that the user may want to add to the project.
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The novel itself lives under its own root folder.
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Project Layout
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The layout of the novel itself is managed through the four supported heading levels, H1 through H4.
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H1 is used for the book title, and for partitions.
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H2 is used for chapter tiles.
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H3 is reserved for scene titles.
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H4 is for section titles within scenes, if such granularity is necessary.
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For the files designated as project notes, the usage of headers imply no structural meaning, and the user is free to do whatever they want.
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Project Export
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The project can at any time be exported to a range of different formats.
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Natively, novelWriter supports export to plain text file, HTML document, novelWriter flavoured markdown, standard markdown (requires Qt 5.14), and to a basic Open Document.
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In addition, printing and printing to PDF is also possible.
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The best supported export format is HTML, which can be imported or converted by a number of other tools like Pandoc, or simply imported into Libre Office and similar.
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Screenshot
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**novelWriter with default system theme:**
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.. image:: images/screenshot_default.png
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:width: 800
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**novelWriter with dark theme:**
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.. image:: images/screenshot_dark.png
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:width: 800
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