What's new in Manuskript 0.16.1
Dec 14, 2023
- Fixes:
- In 0.16.0 we introduced a change to improve interoperability of projects between different operating systems. This has caused some issues which should now be fixed. Files of the projects will try to use UNIX typical line endings in their text files but old files from Windows will still work (be readable).
- Another issue which caused crashes got fixed for Windows systems because some paths of files on Manuskript used the forward slash `/` (which is typically for UNIX based systems like Linux or macOS). However Windows usually prefers paths with the backward slash `` for that matter. If the application mixed both options, files were not accessible and the application crashed. Yes, such minor differences and details still matter unfortunately.
New in Manuskript 0.16.0 (Dec 8, 2023)
- Translations:
- As always the translations have improved by multiple contributions from our community. Big thanks for all the ongoing support to improve the user experience in many different languages, increasing the accessibility of this software.
- If your come by as user and wonder how you could improve translations for UI texts of this software as well. Feel free to checkout our repository on Weblate where you can discuss with other contributors and commit translations.
- Back & Forward navigation:
- Big thanks to Arne Sostack (@alfar) a new feature has been added which allows navigation between opened text documents of your project back and forth. This also allows using hotkeys besides buttons in the menu bar.
- Adding info details to multiple characters in parallel:
- Thanks to @tntscreed there’s now a new menu in case you select multiple characters to add detailed information fields to them in parallel. In the future there might come in a different functionality to use templates for that replacing this dialog. But until then this feature will hopefully reduce time plotting to go back writing sooner.
- Fixes:
- Many different contributors have helped this time to fix reported crashes, improve overall consistency or fix minor annoyances. For example the word counter should be more accurate now and picking between project templates in the project creation dialog shouldn’t cause the application to crash anymore.
New in Manuskript 0.15.0 (Mar 5, 2023)
- Translations:
- Even more languages got added to the list of the supported ones and you can now track the progress on Github repository page. The translations are now more consistent, some bugs internally got fixed and all translatable strings are now included. Also keyboard shortcuts should now work independent of your language setting (this was a bug caused by improper default of the UI we use).
- Session target:
- Thanks to the contribution of @nephlm, it’s now possible to configure a writing target for your current session which tracks progress. Beware it’s still in early phase of development but it might help some users already in context of writing competitions.
- Drag & Drop:
- Thanks to @tcsch it’s now possible to drag and drop elements from the outline view in the editor in one writing panel to open the given item immediately. This improves working with multiple panels since it allows where the item should be opened.
- Fixes:
- A lot of bugs got fixed this time. Big thanks to Kim (@MC42), @TheShadowOfHassen and @tcsch for helping me (@TheJackiMonster) with multiple contributions to get rid of many different issues users had trouble with. There are more than six different kinds of crashes fixed. UI behaves more consistently now overall. Some problems with packaging got solved and more. For more details I recommend checking out the changelog.
- Installer for macOS:
- Thanks to the efforts from Marek Dabrowski (@marosoft) and Jan-Niklas Meier (@dschanoeh), Manuskript can finally provide a proper installer for macOS in its release. Keep in mind that the installer is not signed though. So your system might not allow the installation or running it before checking the necessary boxes in your security settings. Unfortunately we don’t have the resources to get releases officially signed and rolling into the official app store. But this is still a big leap to support a wider range of operating systems.
- Development builds for Windows:
- Thanks to Kim (@MC42) we can now use the automatic CI pipelines from Github to automatically test development builds on Linux and create binary build for Windows to test. So if you want to test the latest state of development to find and report issues, feel free to checkout the builds on Github. This should also help users to verify a certain issue was actually fixed in the development builds.
New in Manuskript 0.10.0 (Jan 21, 2020)
- Add support for additional spell checkers
- Add basic dark theme for Windows 10
- Enable non-English locales to display built-in English language
- Default keep revisions to disabled
- Improve project save by tracking dirty (changes made) state
- Improve upon undesirable window placements
- Fix template new level names being reset
- Fix compile/export silently overwriting files
- Fix cannot leave fullscreen mode with macOS X
- Improve image tooltip handling
- Prevent spellcheck on typing word at end of paragraph
- Add warning for import crash with Qt 5.11 and 5.12
- Fix crash when lowering number of saved revisions below 1
- Fix crash when hovering over image link
- Fix crash when removing folders
- Fix crash when drag and drop in outline
- Fix crash on adding word goal in outline
- Fix crash when story line shown with German translation
- Fix crash when importing
- Fix crash with pandoc export when title is empty
- Fix crash when invalid characters inserted into text
- Fix crash when using a custom pandoc installation
New in Manuskript 0.8.0 (Dec 6, 2018)
- Add support for Pandoc v2.x while maintaining v1.x support
- Fix plot importance changes if delete earlier plot and click other plots
- Remove conflicting plot resolution step key bindings for Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Enter
- Fix crash in Outline pane when multiple items selected
- Fix crash on startup if project file was moved
- Fix crash on compile/export with non-ascii encoding
- Fix crash on import with Qt 5.11
- Improve pandoc compile/export return code handling
- Enhance Travis CI builds and tests
- Increase Travis CI package build minimum for macOS X to Sierra 10.12
New in Manuskript 0.7.0 (Aug 15, 2018)
- Add new focus mode (line/paragraph)
- Add new import formats like doxc, html, opml, Mind Map
- Remove broken format buttons and add format menu
- Fix crash if Cheatsheet filter term not found and Enter key pressed
- Fix spell check crash when enchant dictionary doesn’t exist
- Add command line parameter to open project
- Fix crash when click GoUp button and current editor is None
- Enable moving World items
- Make http links clickable in markdown editor
- Improve markdown syntax highlighting
- Add markdown support of other tabs
- Fix underline causes false spelling error
- Add option for typewriter style scrolling
- Clean up User Interface and hide Debug tab
- Fix crash when directory or file names begin with a period
- Fix Compile check box not working in Outline view
- Fix cannot write a summary on a plot resolution step
New in Manuskript 0.6.0 (Dec 13, 2017)
- What’s new:
- Add Import feature to import several document formats via pandoc
- Add Organize menu to assist changing document structure
- Fix manuskript fails to run in Ubuntu 14.04
- Remove hard coding of colors (improves dark theme experience)
- Remove MultiMarkDown exporter (Pandoc performs these functions and more)
- Automate the build of Mac OS X PyInstaller package (thanks go to katafrakt)
- Add new automated build of .deb package for Debian based GNU/Linux distributions
- Add new .rpm package for Fedora based GNU/Linux distributions
New in Manuskript 0.5.0 (Dec 13, 2017)
- Implemented enhancements:
- Feature request: disable cursor blinking #165
- Swedish translation (sv-SE). #177
- Spanish transalation for manuskript 0.5.0 #174
- Suggestion: Configurable editor margins. #168
- Suggestion: Block insertion cursor. #163
- New navigation icon design #159
- New flash card design #158
- Redaction view navigation improvements #157
- Request: Justified formatting of text #148
- Ability to always show word target in distraction free mode #109
- Use on smaller resolution screens #108
- Odd wordchoices in English. #53
- Fixed bugs:
- Bug in 'World' section #126
- Redaction's tab problem in 0.3.0 win version #92
- Application Style setting GTK+ on Linux Mint Mate #57
- Likes to freeze and crash #50
- Seg faults found #9
- Installation - Qt platforn plugin "xcb" not found #8
- Untranslatable strings. #178
- Create new project ignores changes made to template levels before Create #171
- Several bugs in drag'n'dropping items #169
- Some panels require initial two clicks of RHS tab to hide #167
- Spell checking works but does not underline misspelled words #147
- Contrast Problem in Notes/Refences with Dark Background #143
- Crash when permissions don't allow saving #138
- App crash when moving a step in Plots section #134
- Indent not saved in custom full screen theme #133
- 'Save as' only partly works #128
- "pandoc: Could not parse YAML header" error #124
- Distraction free mode crashes with time target #119
- Pandoc PDF output error with unicode characters #117
- Character Importance-Slider memorize importance of last character ... partly #102
- Index cards seem to keep a background image by default. #52
- In revision mode text, selecting group doesn't load text-preferences right. #51
- Undo/redo works in some text areas but not others #34
- Some bugs in Windows XP and Ubuntu 15.1 #25
- Manuskript fails to load last state of panels #14
- Multiple selections of items sometimes gets Notes/references field to be ereased #10
- Closed issues:
- Cannot start manuskript due to import error #179
- Does not run on Ubuntu 17.10 #170
- Add translation with transifex.com #140
- Site of Manuskript is not in the air at the moment #139
- Manuskript Fail to Launch After Several Successes on Windows 10 #132
- Index Card Background Freeze #127
- Keyboard shortcuts aren't functioning, No undo feature. #125
- Trojan in current windows installer? #112
- Manuskript no longer opening #106
- Merged pull requests:
- Change message from warning to note for failed to load translator string #110 (gedakc)
- Add about manuskript dialog #153 (gedakc)
- Add help tip for world tab #151 (gedakc)
- Add missing __init__.py file #149 (gedakc)
- Fixes: Manuskript fails to load last state of panels #136 (gedakc)
- Add to README a HowTo section with link to Wiki #131 (gedakc)
- Fixes: Contents missing when non-single file project saved with Save as #129 (gedakc)
- Fixes: add character button does not set importance slider to default… #121 (gedakc)
- Request confirmation if create project would overwrite existing file(s) #114 (gedakc)
- Fixes: Unable to change index cards background from image to a color #113 (gedakc)
- Add project name to main window title #103 (gedakc)
- Fixes: after project close, open or create project fails #100 (gedakc)
- Fixes: incorrect reference to 32px icon #97 (gedakc)