Version 2.6 Beta 2

Release Notes

This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.

Detailed Changelog

New Features

• The project tree has been completely rewritten under the hood. The main difference in the GUI is a lifting of restrictions on drag and drop. You can now select multiple items in multiple places in the tree, and drag them to a new location. It is still not allowed to drag root level items, or drop items on the root level. PR #2119.
• You can now drag and drop items from the project tree onto the editor and viewer to load the documents there. PR #2119.

Bugfixes

• Make line height in DocX scale correctly. Issue #2099. PR #2102.
• Make margins scale with font size in ODT and HTML output. PR #2102.
• Fix DocX page count to work with Office 365. PR #2102.
• Fix font scaling issues for PDF output. Issue #2100. PR #2104.
• Fix an issue that cleared the editor when the return key was used on a folder item. PR #2113.
• Fix an issue where the viewer and preview would not reset text emphasis when selecting a default font style with emphasis features. Issue #2121. PR #2122.
• Change how custom fonts are loaded to ensure that the Qt framework don't take shortcuts by using a similar font instead of the chosen font. This is a side effect of the Qt font matching feature. Issue #2118. PR #2122.

Improvements

• Move processing of alternative apostrophe and dash to a later point in the tokenization process. It needs to happen after dialogue is processed to work as intended. PR #2095.
• Use icons for text margin settings in Build Settings. Issue #2098. PR #2102.
• Replace the toolbar icon in the editor. PR #2103.
• Turn off auto-default button on the Build dialog. Issue #2101. PR #2105.
• Add ANSI colours to log output for easier debugging. PRs #2114 and #2117.
• Document header is now aligned to the bottom of the top page margin in the same way for ODT and DocX output. Issue #2120. PR #2128.
• Dialogue detection for quoted dialogue has been improved to better support Chinese, and other languages that don't use whitespaces to separate words. Some improvements have also been made to how single quoted dialogues are processed when apostrophes are present. Issue #2131. PR #2138.

Code Improvements

• Complete rewrite of the project tree into a model/view set with one single definition if the project structure. PR #2109.
• The auto-replace feature in the editor has been refactored. It is now better separated from the editor code, and may have some minor performance improvements. Issue #2129. PR #2132.