Veronica K. B. Olsen
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.0.1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 10 January 2021</i></p>
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<p>This release is mainly to bring the documentation up to date, as I forgot to update the install
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instructions in the original 1.0 release. I also forgot to change the various settings and help
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texts that describe novelWriter as under initial development (beta state).</p>
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<p>Some minor improvements have also been made to the "Edit Project Item" dialog and some
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restrictions on the settings available for documents created in the "Outtakes" folder relaxed.</p>
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<p><i>The full changelog is available
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<a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md">here</a>.</i></p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.0</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 3 January 2021</i></p>
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<p>Based on my own testing and usage, and no serious bugs discovered in quite some time (aside from
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a few corner case issues), it appears that novelWriter is stable enough for a 1.0 release. Thanks
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to all the new users who keep providing feedback on bugs, cosmetic issues, or suggesting
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improvements and new features. I'm glad to hear that others find my application useful, and I will
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keep making improvements as I get new suggestions and have new ideas myself. At the same time, I
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will continue to keep novelWriter simple and clean and avoid feature-bloat.</p>
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<p>This release mainly fixes cosmetic and other minor issues to the user interface and makes a few
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minor improvements to some less used features. Aside from this, nothing major has changed since the
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last release candidate.</p>
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<p>This release concludes over two years of tinkering with this project. The project grew out of
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numerous lunch and coffee discussions with my colleague Marian Lückhof at my former job. We were
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both looking for a tool for writing novels on Linux that suited our needs. We started assembling a
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wish list of features that has become novelWriter. In addition, users on GitHub have continued to
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test new features, provide very helpful feedback, and make new suggestions for improvements.
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Especially the feedback from @johnblommers has been helpful during much of the initial development
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time. Over the last months more users have started posting ideas and feedback. Thanks to all of you
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for your contributions.</p>
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<p>The 1.0 release is intended as a first release of the core features of novelWriter. That does
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not mean that all planned features have been fully implemented. There is a long list of ideas and
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suggestions to consider and implement. New ideas and suggestions are welcome. Either as feature
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requests in the issue tracker, or if not fully formed, can be discussed on the
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<a href="https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/discussions">discussions page</a>.
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.0 RC2</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 13 December 2020</i></p>
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<p>This second release candidate for 1.0 comes with only minor changes and improvements, and a
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handful of minor bugfixes.</p>
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<p>Among the improvements is the addition of all the possible @-keywords for tags and references to
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the "Insert" menu under the sub-menu "Tags and References". The "Help" menu has also received a few
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improvements and additional links to useful webpages. This release also adds a "Release" notes tab
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to the "About novelWriter" dialog. The release notes are displayed automatically the first time you
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launch novelWriter after updating to a new version.</p>
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<p>Among the fixes is better support for high resolution screens. A few elements on the GUI did not
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scale properly, among them the document editor and viewer header and footer. These were clipped on
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high res screens due to an underlying issue with the Qt widget underestimating how much space it
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required to accommodate the text. Unfortunately, dragging the novelWriter app between screens of
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different scaling factors is not currently supported. However, the GUI should scale properly to the
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scaling factor on the screen it is opened on.</p>
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<p>The work leading up to this release has mostly been focused on improving the test coverage of
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the source code of novelWriter. This helps to ensure that the code does what it is intended to do,
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and is able to handle corner cases and unexpected external errors and user actions that may occur.
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While writing these tests, a number of minor potential issues have been uncovered and handled. Most
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of these are corner cases that may not even be reachable by unexpected user actions.</p>
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<p>Hopefully, these changes have resulted in an even more stable version of novelWriter. If no more
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issues are discovered, the next release will be the final version 1.0 release.</p>
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<h2>Release Notes for 1.0 RC1</h2>
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<p><i>Released on 16 November 2020</i></p>
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<p>This is the first release candidate for the upcoming release of novelWriter 1.0.</p>
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<p>Since the fifth beta release about four weeks ago, not much has been changed in novelWriter. A
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few minor tweaks have been made to the GUI.</p>
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<p>A number of features and tools are now automatically switched off when there is no project or
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document open for those features to act upon. Previously, this was a bit inconsistent, although no
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serious bugs have been reported or encountered.</p>
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<p>Most of the minor changes in this release should not be noticeable to most users. However, there
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are a couple of noticeable changes.</p>
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<h3>Typewriter Mode</h3>
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<p>The "Typewriter Mode" of the editor has been improved. Essentially, this feature is a sort of
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smart scroll. It tries to keep the cursor stationary in the vertical direction, and will try to
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scroll the document up when the cursor skips to a new line while typing (or down in case of
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backspaces). This is similar to the way a typewriter scrolls the paper when hitting the return key.
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It improves the writing experience as the current active line will stay at the same eye height
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level on the screen.</p>
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<p>Previously, the feature would lock the cursor to a given vertical position defined by the user.
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Now, instead, the cursor will remain stationary in the vertical direction at any position the user
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sets it to by mouse click or keyboard navigation. The user can define a minimum distance from the
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top where this feature is activated. These changes makes it more flexible in terms of where the
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focus is in the editor. The feature can be controlled from the main Preferences.</p>
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<h3>Switching Syntax Theme</h3>
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<p>It is now possible to switch syntax highlighting theme without restarting novelWriter.
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Previously, changing the theme would only half-way update the document, header and footer
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background and text colours. The new settings would not be fully applied until the application was
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shut down and started again, thus making it a bit tedious to look through syntax themes to find the
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one you want.</p>
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<p>Switching main GUI theme still requires a restart.</p>
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