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35 lines
2.1 KiB
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<h2>Release Notes for 2.1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 17 October 2023</i></p>
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<p>The primary focus of this release has been a complete redesign of the Build Tool, that is, the
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tool that assembles your project into a manuscript document. The new tool, called the "Manuscript
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Build Tool" allows you to define multiple build definitions for your project. The build definitions
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are edited in a new Manuscript Build Settings dialog, with a lot more options than the old tool.</p>
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<p>The reason for this redesign is a long list of feature requests that could not easily be
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accommodated in the old, much simpler tool. Far from all the features have been added yet, but now
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that the new tool is in place, they will be gradually added in the coming releases.</p>
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<p>The key feature added in this release is the extended control you now have for selecting exactly
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what part of your project is included in a given build definition. You have the same filters for
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selecting documents and notes, and turning on or off root folders as before, but you can now easily
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override on a per-document basis what is included or excluded in addition to the filter.</p>
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<p>A second major improvement is a better tool to format your manuscript headings. You no longer
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have to look up formatting codes and add them manually. Instead, there is now a heading format
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editor in the Build Settings dialog for creating the header format, with syntax highlighting
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included.</p>
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<h3>Other Changes</h3>
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<p>Among other features is a new option to duplicate documents and folders in the project tree. The
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duplicate feature is available from the right-click menu. A proper light colour theme has also been
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added. In most cases it will be the same as the default theme, depending on your platform.</p>
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<p>There are other, minor improvements as well, and a lot of code improvements under the hood. For
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a full list of changes, see the detailed changelogs.</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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