What's new in Byword 2.9.6
Oct 17, 2023
- Byword has been updated for macOS 14 Sonoma.
New in Byword 2.9.5 (Jun 28, 2021)
- Support for Apple Silicon Macs
- Improved document window toolbar appearance for macOS Big Sur
- Bug fixes and improvements
New in Byword 2.9.2 (Apr 7, 2019)
New in Byword 2.9.1 (Mar 20, 2019)
- Restore tabs support in document window; menu View > Show Tab Bar.
New in Byword 2.9 (Mar 7, 2019)
- Support for macOS Mojave Dark appearance
- Transparent title bar in document windows
- Custom insertion point that matches system's accent color
- Bug fixes and improvements in Markdown Preview
New in Byword 2.8.2 (Mar 6, 2018)
New in Byword 2.8 (Dec 21, 2016)
- Publishing features are now available to all users; in app purchase no longer needed;
- Support for publishing articles to your Medium publications;
- Bug fixes.
New in Byword 2.7 (Sep 19, 2016)
- Improved support for macOS Sierra;
- Tabs: Merge multiple documents in one window; Use menu Window > Merge All Windows;
- Improved performance in Markdown rendering;
- Bug fixes.
New in Byword 2.6.1 (Jun 1, 2016)
- Improve WordPress setup for certain websites
- Do not generate anchors in headings unless Table of Contents is present in document
New in Byword 2.6 (Mar 24, 2016)
- New: Support for adding a table of contents to Markdown documents using the {{TOC}} placeholder;
- Improved: PDF exporting and printing.
New in Byword 2.5.1 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Upload images to Medium
- Improvements and bug fixes
New in Byword 2.5 (Nov 3, 2015)
- Publishing to Medium:
- Publish stories to Medium (requires Premium in-app purchase to enable publishing);
- Stories should be text only (uploading images to Medium will be available soon);
- Set title, tags and publish status before publishing.
- Optimized for OS X El Capitan:
- New application icon;
- New default font option (San Francisco);
- Improvements and bug fixes.
New in Byword 2.3 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Improvements for OS X Yosemite
- Support for iCloud Drive
New in Byword 2.2 (Aug 27, 2014)
- New features:
- Upload local images to WordPress — local image references detected when publishing to a WordPress blog can be uploaded to be published with the text;
- Bug fixes and improvements:
- Fix input issues for Japanese, Chinese and Korean text
- Fix a rare crash in Typewriter mode
- Other minor bug fixes
New in Byword 2.1.1 (Jun 4, 2014)
- Quickly switch between light and dark themes using Command+Escape (⌘⎋) keyboard shortcut
- Fix Markdown snippet generated when drag and dropping an image to the editor
- Fix invalid content when exporting to Word documents
- Fix invalid meta tag in HTML themed export
- Fix some issues displaying Scriptogram account details
New in Byword 2.1 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Updated for OS X Mavericks
- Scrolling performance has been improved specially for longer documents
- Improved PDF export
- Minimum OS X version is now Mountain Lion (10.8)
- Support for GitHub fenced code blocks in Markdown
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Byword 2.0.3 (Sep 2, 2013)
New in Byword 2.0.2 (Jun 15, 2013)
- Fixes an crash converting text to lists or quotations in plain text mode
- Better support for self-hosted WordPress blogs
- More flexibility in what is accepted when publishing to Evernote
- Improved details on publishing errors
New in Byword 2.0.1 (Jun 6, 2013)
- Fix compatibility with OS X 10.7
- Fix lost credentials on WordPress setups. Unfortunately, this requires all WordPress accounts to be re-configured. Go to menu Byword > Publish and re-add your WordPress setup. Sorry to the inconvenience.
- Clarified the in-app purchase information. A lot of customers assumed the one-time in-app purchase for the Premium upgrade meant it could be shared between Byword for Mac and Byword for iOS. As much as we'd like to have such scheme, it is simply not possible technically on the App Store.
New in Byword 2.0 (Jun 4, 2013)
- Keep scroll position on Markdown preview
- Copy rich text to clipboard
- Application Sandboxing
- Many fixes and improvements
New in Byword 1.5.2 (Jul 17, 2012)
- Updated graphics for Retina displays
- Compatibility updates
- Minor bug fixes
New in Byword 1.5.1 (Apr 16, 2012)
- Improved iCloud performance during launch
- Fixed blank document windows that affected certain users
- Fixed Markdown preview errors on case-sensitive file systems
- iCloud browser can now open any type of file
- Moving rich text documents to iCloud will now alert that those documents will not appear on Byword for iOS
New in Byword 1.5 (Mar 14, 2012)
- iCloud support:
- To work with the brand new Byword for iOS app, the Mac app now includes iCloud support to keep your documents safe and synchronized seamlessly across all your Mac and iOS devices.
- Byword for Mac also includes a dedicated iCloud Open panel that allows search, open, rename and delete documents stored in iCloud.
- Text Zoom:
- One of the most requested features. Byword now lets you increase text zoom without changing font size in menu View ‣ Text Zoom. Seat back, relax and write comfortably.
- Autocompletion of parenthesis, brackets and quotes disabled by default
- Byword no longer automatically closes parenthesis, brackets and quotes. This can still be enabled/disabled in menu Edit ‣ Substitutions ‣ Smart Pairs.
- Other improvements and bug fixes:
- Printing from Markdown preview now prints what you see
- Justified alignment option for rich text
- Fixed faded line when typing at the end of document
- Fixed missing first paragraph when exporting certain documents to RTF and Word
- Improved keyboard navigation on Markdown preview
- Improved QuickCursor integration in OS X Lion
- Updated MultiMarkdown to version 3.3
New in Byword 1.4 (Sep 23, 2011)
- Merged Plain Text and Markdown modes
- All plain text documents are now considered Markdown documents
- All Markdown features now work in .txt and .text documents
- Better text manipulation helpers:
- Support for indenting (⌃⌘→) and outdenting lines (⌃⌘←)
- Support for moving lines up (⌃⌘↑) and down (⌃⌘↓)
- Auto-indentation when inserting new lines
- Full paragraph indentation support in Rich text
- Accessibility API support:
- Every Byword functionality is now accessible to visual and hearing impaired users
- Other improvements and bug fixes:
- Remembers Typewriter mode settings
- Remembers the preferred file extension
- Better QuickCursor integration, specially on OS X Snow Leopard
- Better transition to full-screen in OS X Lion
- Optional custom full-screen for dual-monitors setups in OS X Lion (see FAQ on website)
- Dragging links and images now inserts Markdown links and images references
- Fixed footnotes when exporting to PDF
- Fixed an issue with Thai language in RTF
- Fixed drawing glitches in the Versions Browser
- Improved Spanish localization (thanks Allan Tépper)
- Russian localization (thanks Maxim Dremin)
New in Byword 1.3.1 (Jul 30, 2011)
- Improved OS X Lion compatibility and bug fixes.
- Fixed 'Save a Version' issues on OS X Lion
- Fixed an issue affecting Korean and Japanese users where some unicode characters didn't display correctly
- Improved user interface for creating new documents
New in Byword 1.3 (Jul 15, 2011)
- New:
- Markdown syntax highlighting
- Improved lists support
- Typewriter scrolling mode
- Document icons for txt, rtf and markdown files
- Word and character counters per selection
- More Markdown export options: PDF, HTML, Word, RTF and LaTeX
- Support for Divvy and Moom apps
- Support for Papers2 'Magic Manuscripts'.
- OS X Lion Compatibility:
- Native full screen support
- Auto Save support
- Versions support
- Seamless Application Resume.
- Improvements:
- Fixed scrolling variations during save
- Removed document title in full screen
- Fixed encoding when exporting to HTML with Byword theme
- Reduced document margins
- AppleScript support
- Many other improvements and bug fixes.
New in Byword 1.2 (May 23, 2011)
- Markdown support with editing and preview
- Byword can now edit Markdown documents and preview them immediately using a MultiMarkdown rendering engine.
New in Byword 1.1.1 (Apr 27, 2011)
- Remember last opened documents
- Autosave and document recovery
- QuickCursor support (ODB Suite)
- Improved encoding handling to work better with Dropbox
- Improved printing
- Hyphenation
- Other minor fixes
- Added translations:
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Brazilian Portuguese
New in Byword 1.1 (Mar 30, 2011)
- Word and character counters
- Dark theme preference
- Support for older Macs (32-bit)
- Improved scrolling behavior
- Fixed formatting shortcuts not working in some cases
- Fixed encoding compatibility with other text editors
- Remembers full-screen and window mode across launches
- Remembers Smart Quotes, Smart Dashes and other substitutions
- Better integration with Spaces