Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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51 lines
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.2</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 17 December 2023</i></p>
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<p>This release comes with a number of new features. These are some highlights.</p>
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<p>In addition to the common Markdown style formatting for bold, italic and strike through, a set
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of new shortcodes have been added. The shortcodes are far more flexible than the Markdown style
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syntax, and can be used for more complex formatting cases. Like when you need to add multiple,
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overlapping formats, or add emphasis to just a part of a word. The shortcodes also allow for
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underline, subscript and superscript, which the Markdown syntax does not. The new formats are
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available in the "Format" menu, and in a new toolbar in the editor that can be enabled by clicking
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the three dots in the top–left corner. The shortcode format was chosen because it can later be
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extended to include other requested features as well. Please have a look at the documentation for
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more details about the new shortcodes.</p>
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<p>The Tags and References system has been improved. The tags themselves are no longer case
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sensitive when you use them in references, but they are still displayed as you typed them in the
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tag definition when they are displayed in the user interface. Starting to type the '@' symbol in
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the text editor, on a new line, will now open an auto-completer menu which will display available
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options. It may not display all of your tags if you have a lot of them, but starting to type more
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characters will filter the list down further.</p>
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<p>You can now automatically create a note file for a new tag that you have added to a reference
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list in a document, but is not yet defined in a project note. So, for instance, if you come up with
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a new character while writing, and add a new tag to your '@char' references, you can right-click
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the new tag and create a new note for that entry directly. In addition, it is now also possible to
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right-click a heading in an open document and set the item label in the project tree to match the
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heading.</p>
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<p>In addition to the changes in the editor, the "References" panel below the document viewer has
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also been completely redesigned. It now shows all the references to the document you are viewing as
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a list, with a lot more details than before. In addition, tabs in the panel will appear to show all
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the tags you have defined in your notes, sorted as one tab per category. Like for instance
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Characters, Locations, Objects, etc. You can also give each note a short description comment on the
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same format as the summary comments for chapters and scenes. The short description comment can be
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added from the "Insert" menu under "Special Comments".</p>
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<p>The last major change in this release is the new multi-select feature in the project tree. You
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can now select multiple documents and folders using the mouse while pressing 'Ctrl' or 'Shift'. By
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right-clicking the selected items, you can perform a limited set of operations on all of them, like
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changing active status, and the status or importance labels. You can also drag and drop multiple
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items under the condition that all the selected items are in the same folder, at the same level.
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This restriction is in place due to limitations in the framework novelWriter is based on. But this
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should help in cases where multiple documents need to be moved in and out of folders or between
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folders. Note that adding the multi-select feature meant that the undo feature of the project tree
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had to be removed. It may be added back later.</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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