vkbo/novelWriter v1.1

Version 1.1

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Release Notes

The main change in this release is the addition of a new tab to the project tree on the left side of the main window. The regular project tree is now on a tab named "Project", while a new tab named "Novel" displays a simpler version of the information on the main "Outline" page. It lists all the headers of the novel part of the project, as well as the word count and point-of-view character of each section. This is an alternative way to navigate the novel part of the project. The various tree views are now also kept better in sync when the user selects various documents and headers.

In addition, a new information dialog named "Project Details" has been added. It replaces the "Details" tab in "Project Settings", and adds more information about the novel part of the project. In particular, a "Table of Contents" in the "Contents" tab displays a summary of the main parts and chapters of the project, their total word counts, and an estimated page count. This was made in response to users asking for ways to estimate the total page count of the project. The page count is estimated based on a words per page setting, which can be changed on the dialog window.

Since the tabs below the project tree now add some extra room on the GUI, some convenient buttons have been added in the same area, with direct access to "Project Details", "Writing Statistics" and "Project Setting".

A few other minor changes have been made as well. The Preferences dialog has been improved with clearer categories and hopefully better help text. Some new options have been added too. They allow syntax highlighting of multi-paragraph quotes. The highlighter can now optionally accept quotes to be left "hanging", that is, no closing quote in the same paragraph.

These Release Notes also include the changes from 1.1 RC 1.

Detailed Changelog

Bugfixes

• A None check in the details panel below the project tree was missing, resulting in an occasional error message being printed to the logging output. The error was otherwise handled, so this is mainly a fix to prevent the error message. PR #639.

User Interface

• The word counts in the Novel tree are now updated each time a file is saved. Issue #636, PR #637.
• A "Remove" button has been added to the "Open Project" dialog. Previously, recent project entries could be removed by pressing the Del key, but no obvious other methods were present on the GUI. PR #639.
• When the search function is activated, the text in the search box is automatically selected. Issue #645, PR #639.

Installation

• The minimal zip release package tool in setup.py has been improved to generate tailored packages for each operating system. The old pyinstaller build command has been removed, but the manual build path for a Windows setup.exe file has been kept. PRs #643 and #644.