vkbo/novelWriter v1.1.1

Version 1.1.1

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Release Notes

This patch makes a couple of minor improvements to the GUI. The keyboard shortcut for deleting entries in the project tree has been changed from Ctrl+Del to Ctrl+Shift+Del to free up that shortcut for the document editor. It is now possible to use the shortcut for deleting the word in front of the cursor, a common and useful feature of many text editors.

The way the negative word count filter option works on the Writing Statistics tool has been changed to be more intuitive. Enabling this filter now appears to remove all negative entries without altering the other entries. Previously, the removed negative counts would be included in the following entries to make it consistent with the total word count. In addition, writing sessions shorter than five minutes, and with no change in the word count, are no longer recorded in the session log file.

Other changes include improving the speed of the internal spell checker, used when the Enchant spell check library isn't available. The internal spell checker is no longer significantly slower, but is still lacking in functionality compared to Enchant.

Detailed Changelog

User Interface

• The default GUI font on Windows is now Arial. It works better with the Qt framework than the default system font. If Arial is missing, it falls back to the bundled font Cantarell. PR #655.
• The way word changes are calculated on the Writing Statistics tool has changed when the option to exclude negative word counts is active. Previously, the entries with negative counts were filtered out, but the change in count was still applied to the next line, altering the value. Now, the GUI will instead just drop the lines that are negative and keep the other lines unchanged. This is more intutitive, but it also means that the total count now longer matches the sum of the lines. PR #659.
• The keyboard shortcut for deleting entries in the project tree has been changed from Ctrl+Del to Ctrl+Shift+Del. The Ctrl+Del shortcut is thus free to be used exclusively by the editor to delete the word in front of the cursor. Having the same shortcut do different things depending on which area of the GUI has focus is a bit confusing. Related to #529. PR #666.

Other Improvements

• The internal spell checker, which is used when the Enchant library isn't available, has been given a significant speed improvement by caching the imported dictionary as a Python set instead of a list. The set has a hashed key lookup algorithm that is significantly faster. PR #668.
• Sessions shortar than 5 minutes, and with no word count changes, are no longer recorded in the session stats log file. PR #685.

Installation

• The PyPi packages now include the setup.py file, which makes it possible to install icon launchers for novelWriter on both Linux and Windows after installing with pip. PR #655.