Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.6</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 20 February 2022</i></p>
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<p>This release does not introduce any major new features, but is instead a collection of minor
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improvements and tweaks based on user requests. There are also a number of changes under the hood
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to improve the structure and performance of novelWriter.</p>
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<p><u>Some key improvements to the user interface are:</u></p>
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<p>✓ The max text width setting in Preferences now also applies to the document viewer, and
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the setting itself on the Preference dialog has been simplified a bit.</p>
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<p>✓ When text is selected in the document editor, the number of words selected is displayed
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in the editor's footer area.</p>
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<p>✓ The search tool in the document editor now shows the number of results in the
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document.</p>
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<p>✓ The Enter and Ctrl+O keyboard shortcuts should now work the same way in all tree
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views.</p>
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<p>✓ It is now possible to set a blank section title format on the Build Novel Project tool
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and get empty paragraphs in the output. Previously, a blank format would just remove the section
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break entirely. This change allows the user to define hard and soft scene breaks using level three
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and four headings. The scene and section titles can be hidden completely with two new switches
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added to the user interface.</p>
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<p><u>Other feature changes include:</u></p>
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<p>✓ The project index is now automatically rebuilt in the event it is empty or incomplete
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when the project is opened.</p>
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<p>✓ The user can now add their own syntax and GUI theme files in the app folder in their
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user area on the host operating system. Where the custom files must be added is described in the
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documentation.</p>
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<p>✓ A Windows installer is yet again provided for novelWriter. If you have novelWriter
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installed using another method, make sure you uninstall it properly first as the two methods are
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not compatible.</p>
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<p>✓ Release versions for Ubuntu 21.04 have been dropped, and added for the upcoming Ubuntu
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22.04.</p>
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<p>✓ Most translations have been updated. A Dutch translation is in the works.</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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<h2>Patch Notes</h2>
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<h3>Patch 1.6.1 – 16 March 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a bugfix and patch release that fixes two recursion/loop issues. One would potentially
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cause a crash if the window was resized rapidly, and one would cause a hang with certain search
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parameters in the editor's search box. The Latin American Spanish translation has also been
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updated.</p>
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<h3>Patch 1.6.2 – 20 March 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a bugfix release that fixes a couple of minor issues. Projects containing one or more
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empty documents would trigger a rebuild of the index each time the project was opened. This has now
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been fixed. Another fix resolves an error message being written to the console logging output when
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a new document was created. Both errors were harmless.</p>
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<h3>Patch 1.6.3 – 18 August 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a bugfix release that fixes a rare problem causing novelWriter to crash if the spell
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checker language setting was configured to an empty value.</p>
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<p>A few other minor issues have also been fixed: The project language setting is now properly
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exported to ODT documents. Spaces are no longer inserted automatically in front of colons in
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certain meta data settings when the feature is enabled (it is primarily used for French). Lastly,
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the slider splitting the editor and viewer panels can no longer be dragged until the viewer
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disappears. It was not necessarily obvious how the viewer panel could be restored in such cases.
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</p>
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<h3>Patch 1.6.4 – 29 September 2022</h3>
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<p>This is a bugfix release that fixes a critical bug in the insert non-breaking spaces feature. It
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basically no longer worked in the 1.6.3 release. This release also fixes a minor issue where the
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text cursor sometimes disappears when reaching the right-hand edge of the text editor window.</p>
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