Texts Changelog

What's new in Texts 1.5

Mar 23, 2018
  • Upgrade to Pandoc 2.1.

New in Texts 1.4.3 (Dec 13, 2017)

  • Upgrade to Pandoc 2.0.

New in Texts 1.4.2 (Apr 14, 2017)

  • Support line breaks in headings.
  • Update MathJax CDN in HTML export templates.

New in Texts 1.4.1 (Dec 5, 2016)

  • Support Pandoc 1.19.
  • Don't escape underscore character inside words.

New in Texts 1.4 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • Upgrade to Pandoc 1.18.

New in Texts 1.3.2 (Mar 24, 2016)

  • Support up to 20 columns in tables.
  • Don't wrap URLs in < and > signs.
  • Fix export of tables following footnotes.
  • Fix export of single-column tables.
  • Don't toggle find panel on Command+F.

New in Texts 1.3.1 (Jan 24, 2016)

  • Normalise paragraph indents on save.

New in Texts 1.3 (Jan 4, 2016)

  • Upgrade to Pandoc 1.16.

New in Texts 1.2 (Nov 30, 2015)

  • Support publishing to GitHub Pages, with math, tables etc.
  • Option for formatting code blocks with backticks.
  • Preserve attributes of code blocks (e.g. language).
  • Format inline math with double dollar signs by default.
  • Improve stability on Windows.
  • Adjust table columns widths in PDF export.

New in Texts 1.1 (Nov 1, 2015)

  • Support installation of editor themes from .text-theme files (Mac OS X).
  • Enable spellchecking by default (Mac OS X).
  • Clear cached images on app start (Mac OS X).
  • Enable saving of document with custom extension (Mac OS X).
  • Fix copy of HTML to clipboard (Windows).
  • Remove support of Markdown flavours, generate markup common to variations.

New in Texts 1.0 (Oct 13, 2015)

  • Improve support of Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • Improve support of Windows 10.
  • Support high-resolution displays on Windows.

New in Texts 0.23.5 (Sep 1, 2015)

  • Enable auto-formatting by default.
  • Display page orientation buttons in Print dialog.

New in Texts 0.23.4 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • Update URL of Bootstrap CSS in HTML export template.
  • Fix commands removing table column and rows.
  • Implement smart quotes (Windows).
  • Fix potential problem when application is closed via Alt+F4 (Windows).
  • Offer Pandoc 1.15 by default.

New in Texts 0.23.3 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • Fix formatting of tables with long text.

New in Texts 0.23.2 (Jun 15, 2015)

  • Change Markdown syntax defaults to work well with GitHub.
  • Disable autoformatting by default, add an option to enable.
  • Add option for tables style.
  • Add option to export citations to XeLaTeX in natbib format.
  • Include booktabs package in default XeLaTeX templates for correct table rendering.
  • Reduce CPU usage when word/character count is enabled.

New in Texts 0.23.1 (Jun 15, 2015)

  • Save documents with .md filename extension by default.
  • Assign keyboard shortcuts to “Insert Citation” command.
  • Integrate citations with bibliographic reference managers via copy&paste (OS X).
  • More stable spellchecking (OS X).
  • Display checkmark for “Spell Checking” in menu (OS X).
  • Mark current style in menu and on toolbar (OS X).

New in Texts 0.23.1 (Jun 6, 2015)

  • Save documents with .md filename extension by default.
  • Add option for default filename extenstion (Windows). Read more »
  • Assign keyboard shortcuts to “Insert Citation” command.
  • Integrate citations with bibliographic reference managers via copy&paste (OS X). Read more »
  • More stable spellchecking (OS X).
  • Display checkmark for “Spell Checking” in menu (OS X).
  • Mark current style in menu and on toolbar (OS X).

New in Texts 0.23 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Basic support of bibliography in BibTeX format. Add “File→Bibliography…” command for configuration and “Insert→Citation” command for creation of citations.
  • Add “Insert→Author” and “Insert→Title” commands.
  • Edit selected image, hyperlink or citation on Alt+Enter.
  • Support multi-paragraph footnotes.
  • Merge “Insert→Image” and “Insert→Image URL” commands.
  • Add file selection button to “Insert Hyperlink” dialog (OS X).
  • Save image caption in standard Markdown format.
  • Install missing MiKTeX packages automatically (Windows).
  • Position caret after link when pasting URL (OS X).
  • Don’t fail on saving empty title or author.
  • Remove date from default TeX/PDF templates.
  • Reset "modified" flag on document open (Windows).
  • Fix saving of ATX headings (Windows).
  • Hide Find panel on Command+F (OS X).
  • Download installer automatically during update (Windows).
  • Don't ask to save Welcome document if it is not modified (OS X).
  • Don't open Untitled document on start but open if app icon clicked again (OS X).
  • Display modal dialog during export (Windows).
  • Require Pandoc 1.13.2 or later.

New in Texts 0.22 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Display spelling suggestions in context menu.
  • Export all formats via Pandoc.
  • Edit title and author metadata if present.
  • Preserve bibliographic citations and references.
  • Process bibliographic citations in export.
  • Remove hyperlink if URL is empty in “Insert Hyperlink” dialog.
  • Render text with antialiasing (Windows).
  • Support installation for all users and into custom folder (Windows).
  • Add space at the bottom for more comfortable typing.
  • Add option to save inline links.
  • Don’t paste as Markdown in default paste.
  • Add “Paste as Markdown” command.
  • Improve tables parsing from Pandoc.
  • Preserve raw TeX blocks and spans.
  • Enable “Services” menu (OS X).
  • Export HTML slides with vertical navigation for second level headings.
  • Display MiKTeX dialogs during PDF export (Windows).
  • Don’t open recent document by default (Windows).
  • Add option to not reopen documents on start (OS X).
  • Disable autosave by default, add option (Windows).
  • Add option to save ATX heading (OS X).
  • Add option to set select spellchecking language (Windows).
  • Hide writing direction commands from menu.
  • Display border around math blocks and gray background for code blocks.
  • Load templates from “Templates” subfolder at document location (OS X).
  • Update HTML slides export template for latest version of reveal.js.
  • Add file selection button in “Insert Hyperlink” dialog (Windows).
  • Escape plus and minus character at the beginning of paragraph.
  • Make undo more reliable.
  • Don’t print text caret (Windows).
  • Fix numbering of highly nested lists.
  • Fix “Find Next” when Find panel is shown (OS X).
  • Fix line splitting in printing.
  • Fix formatting of tables with CJK characters.
  • Fix decoding of URLs.
  • Fix editing of hyperlinks with non-ASCII characters (Windows).
  • Drop support of OS X 10.7.

New in Texts 0.21 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • Import from Word format.
  • Import from OPML format (Mac OS X).
  • Export to OPML format (Mac OS X).
  • Export to EPUB 3 format (Mac OS X).
  • Export to Open Document format (Mac OS X).
  • Templates in Word export (Mac OS X).
  • Don’t display link URL in separate paragraph.
  • Save documents in Pandoc Markdown format.
  • Parse all files via Pandoc by default.
  • Remove “Comment” paragraph style.
  • Drop support of Mac OS X 10.6.

New in Texts 0.20 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Toolbar with fast access to most common styles and actions.
  • Move editor settings from “Window” menu into “View” menu.
  • Fix potential loss of focus in empty document.

New in Texts 0.19.2 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Fix parsing of indentation in code and math blocks.

New in Texts 0.19.1 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Paste as plain text into code and math blocks.
  • Fix caret handling just before line break.
  • Disable spellchecking and autocorrection in code blocks.

New in Texts 0.19 (May 27, 2014)

  • Export of HTML presentations.
  • GitHub Pages and Jekyll support (Kramdown).
  • Markdown auto-formatting for paragraphs and words.
  • Option to save documents with Unix newlines on Windows.
  • Option to save Markdown with ATX headings on all levels.
  • “Copy as Plain Text” command in the “Edit” menu.
  • Keyboard shortcut for “Insert / Image URL” command (OS X).
  • Open last edited file on start (Windows).
  • Removed low-level hyperlink and footnote styling commands from “Word” menu.
  • Support Pandoc 1.12.4. Download for OS X or Windows.
  • Stability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Texts 0.18.5 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Add “Insert Image URL” command (Windows).
  • Save tables in “pipe” format in GitHub and MMD Markdown flavors.
  • Export non-breaking space as HTML entity in HTML format.
  • Insert non-breaking space on Ctrl+Shift+Space (Windows).
  • Paste image files copied from Finder as images (Mac OS X).
  • Escape pipe character for more robust table parsing.
  • Fix URL detection in paste (Mac OS X).
  • Fix selection of Markdown flavor based on extension.
  • Fix pasting of multiline text into search field (Mac OS X).

New in Texts 0.18.4 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Add separators to “Paragraph” and “Word” menus.
  • Display thumbnail previews for .md files (Mac OS X).
  • Paste URL from clipboard inline (Mac OS X).
  • Respect “no wrap” option when saving in Pandoc, GitHub or MMD format (Mac OS X).
  • Fix compatibility issue with Default Folder X (Mac OS X).
  • Remove “Image” command from “Paragraph” menu (Windows).
  • Accept three dashes as end of YAML block.
  • Fix saving of tables with long words (more that 40 characters).
  • Fix saving of images with long URLs containing spaces.

New in Texts 0.18.3 (Jan 22, 2014)

  • Option to use Pandoc and XeLaTeX installed via MacPorts (OS X).
  • Option to suppress creation of empty document (OS X).
  • Option to export tight lists to HTML (OS X).
  • Fixes for parsing of YAML metadata via Pandoc.

New in Texts 0.18.2 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Fixed: autoupdate may ask for a password.

New in Texts 0.18 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • Autosave documents every minute.
  • Open .text files via embedded parser and other file types via Pandoc.
  • Remove “Reopen in Format” and “Save in Format” menu commands.
  • Add “Import” commands for Markdown flavors.
  • Fix input of composite Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters (Windows).
  • Preserve YAML blocks in Texts parser/formatter.
  • Fix parsing of tables with hyperlinks and footnotes via Pandoc.
  • Improve export and import via Pandoc.
  • Don't scale preview of small images (10+ pixels height).
  • Show white mouse cursor in “Dark” theme.

New in Texts 0.17.1 (Dec 6, 2013)

  • Fix parsing of tables without headers in Pandoc Markdown format.
  • Improve export of Unicode glyphs from Welcome document to PDF.
  • Make current span highlight darker in the “Dark” theme.
  • Add “Sepia” theme.

New in Texts 0.17 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • Require update to Pandoc 1.12.1.
  • Fix compatibility issues on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
  • Implement “Find Next” command.
  • Assign keyboard shortcut to “Insert Image URL” (Mac OS X).
  • Preserve headings 4-6.

New in Texts 0.14.4 (Jun 10, 2013)

  • Option to display character count.
  • Markup characters are no longer escaped on copy to clipboard.
  • Enter key press inserts empty paragraph before table.
  • Tab/Shift+Tab keys move caret to next/prev cell in table.
  • Tab inserts new row at the end of table.
  • Paragraph movement commands shift column/row in table.
  • Fix numbered items counter reset after headings level 2 and 3.
  • Fix export to PDF on OS X 10.6.

New in Texts 0.14.3 (May 29, 2013)

  • Fix potential text caret misalignment.
  • Display documents thumbnails in Finder.
  • Support RTL scripts in Quick Look preview.

New in Texts 0.14.2 (May 27, 2013)

  • Fix crash on image paste (OS X).
  • Fix export of tables with empty cells.
  • Remove empty paragraphs in HTML export.
  • Improve PDF export when image has special characters in filename.
  • Always fit image in page width in PDF.
  • Support default Markdown dialect option.
  • Maintain scrolling so that caret is visible after switch to fullscreen (Windows).
  • Support footnotes in tables in PDF export.
  • Improve table column width calculation in PDF export.
  • Support “save unwrapped” option.
  • Ignore punctuation in word count.
  • Improve typography in OS X version.

New in Texts 0.14.1 (May 24, 2013)

  • Fix: export to HTML5 fails on undefined footnotes and hyperlinks.
  • Fix: text in comments is included in word count.

New in Texts 0.14 (May 20, 2013)

  • Tables.
  • Quick Look plugin (Mac OS X).
  • Open and save other Markdown flavors (Pandoc, GitHub, MMD).
  • Automatic updates.