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Slugline Changelog

What's new in Slugline 2.0.4

Mar 15, 2023
  • You can now drag-reorder the last element in the Outline! Finally The End of that bug.

New in Slugline 2.0.3 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when the visible outline was being quickly updated.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause sub-optimal line breaks on extremely long dialogue blocks, which was especially noticeable when writing voiceovers.
  • Added "Option-Click" on Notes, to pop up the normal text menu, instead of only showing the Note Color options.

New in Slugline 2.0.2 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • Fixed Live Compare so sentence changes are more understandable.
  • Made page-position on the screen more stable when switching between writing and previewing.
  • Fixed printed page margins for A4 pages.
  • Also fixed how Live Compare change marks could incorrectly shift around when previewing A4 pages.

New in Slugline 2.0.1 (Oct 15, 2020)

  • Fixed the appearance of "(CONT'D)" so it's properly aligned.
  • Fixed a bug that could temporarily show the wrong upgrade price for certain locales.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an over-length warning when deleting from very short screenplays.

New in Slugline 2.0.0 (Oct 15, 2020)

  • Slugline 2 has a ton of new features, like a gorgeous new UI, dark mode, Final Draft import/export, color-coded notes, a drag-reorderable outline, and Live Compare for tracking changes.

New in Slugline 1.3.1 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • What’s new:
  • Performance! Slugline scrolls smoother and keeps up with your typing better, even on very large, complex documents.
  • Performance! Slugline should be less greedy with your laptop’s battery.
  • Undo now un-does blocks of typing, rather than one letter at a time.
  • Plus some little tweaks:
  • Typing the @ symbol, the trick for forcing a Character element, now brings up an auto-complete menu of any forced Characters already in your screenplay.
  • After pressing Return to choose a Scene Heading prefix (INT, EXT, etc.) from the auto-complete menu, the cursor now remains on the line, so you can keep typing your Scene Heading.
  • Some bug fixes:
  • Undo-ing the creation of a Character/Dialogue pair no longer inserts random garbage into your screenplay. “That’s my job,” you joked, but, hey, take it easy on yourself. That kind of self-doubt adds up.
  • We fixed a potential memory leak.
  • When reverting to a saved document, the “Loading” spinner should go away now, rather than stay there for four to eight years.
  • And (most recently), fixed some compatibility issues with High Sierra that were causing crashes around parentheticals.

New in Slugline 1.3.0 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • Here’s what’s new:
  • Performance! Slugline scrolls smoother and keeps up with your typing better, even on very large, complex documents.
  • Performance! Slugline should be less greedy with your laptop’s battery.
  • Undo now un-does blocks of typing, rather than one letter at a time.
  • Plus some little tweaks:
  • Typing the @ symbol, the trick for forcing a Character element, now brings up an auto-complete menu of any forced Characters already in your screenplay.
  • After pressing Return to choose a Scene Heading prefix (INT, EXT, etc.) from the auto-complete menu, the cursor now remains on the line, so you can keep typing your Scene Heading.
  • And some bug fixes:
  • Undo-ing the creation of a Character/Dialogue pair no longer inserts random garbage into your screenplay. “That’s my job,” you joked, but, hey, take it easy on yourself. That kind of self-doubt adds up.
  • We fixed a potential memory leak.
  • When reverting to a saved document, the “Loading” spinner should go away now, rather than stay there for four to eight years.

New in Slugline 1.2.5 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Touch Bar support:
  • Slugline 1.2.5 now supports the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar models.
  • With the Touch Bar, you can show and hide the Outline navigator, toggle Bold, Italics, and Underline styles, and switch between Edit and Preview mode.
  • Also fixed a bug where CONT'D would be printed in Courier, even if you chose Courier Prime as your font.

New in Slugline 1.2.4 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • Fixes a bug with turning off Bold Scene Headings, corrects a cosmetic issue with scroll bars, and updates the Help documentation.

New in Slugline 1.2.3 (Sep 14, 2016)

  • Some important bug fixes, improved pagination, and a handy new feature.
  • New: Choose Format -> Force Uppercase (Option + Command + K) to convert an entire line to uppercase.
  • We’ve greatly improved pagination in this release, fixing a slew of small bugs, and improving handling of widows and orphans.
  • And the bug fixes:
  • Less crashing! We fixed a crasher bug where Slugline would helpfully insist that it was time to take a break from writing.
  • We fixed two different cases where Dual Dialogue would get scrambled. Don’t everybody thank us at once.
  • Outline text is no longer cut off by an “Always visible” scroll bar.

New in Slugline 1.2.2 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • Fixes a rare case where smart quotes and dashes would creep into your writing inconsistently.

New in Slugline 1.2.1 (Feb 10, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Accent marks once again work the way they they shüd.
  • We fixed a bug introduced in 1.2.0 where Cut and Paste would stop working and beep at you annoyingly. Then we fixed another.
  • Centered text once again correctly previews and prints with any styling you may have applied (bold, italics, underlining).
  • Slugline once again remembers where you last were in your screenplay when you re-open it.
  • Whole-line Notes and Omits are once again removed from Preview and Print without leaving any telltale whitespace.
  • Kerning is now prettier in the Outline Panel.
  • Preview performance improvements.
  • Pasting text into the PDF name field works once again.
  • We’ve improved the accuracy of margins when printing.
  • Scroll bars are now prettier always.
  • Page break lines are drawn more accurately in Edit mode.
  • Slugline now warns you if you try to open a document with incompatible text encoding.
  • New:
  • Use ⌘. to convert an element to a Scene Heading.
  • Use ⇧⌘. to convert an element to a Transition.

New in Slugline 1.2.0 (Dec 19, 2015)

  • Slugline 1.2 is a major performance and maintenance update. We changed everything, then made it look like we changed very little.
  • The guts of Slugline have been completely reworked. The result of this major undertaking is dramatically better performance across the entire app, especially with long documents. Slugline should feel tuned up and streamlined, even if you’re writing THE HOBBITAR.
  • Slugline now supports Scene Numbers! If your screenplay has Fountain scene numbers, Slugline now recognizes them and prints them correctly.
  • Changing the on-screen size of your text is now much slicker. The zooming is smoother, with smaller increments. If you don’t like increments, you can pinch-zoom to any size you like using your trackpad (Magic or otherwise). And the Preview now matches the zoom size you choose for writing.
  • We’ve added a TV Pilot Template! With act breaks, page breaks, and, well, we based it on the BREAKING BAD pilot, so it has a lot of breaks. Find it under File → New From Template.
  • Other changes:
  • Bold, underlined text now prints correctly.
  • Creating a Note near the end of the document no longer causes horror.
  • Dual Dialogue now previews and prints correctly even when the first dialogue element is longer than the second.
  • Smoother transitions in and out of Preview.
  • If you open a new screenplay while in full-screen mode, Slugline no longer bumps you out of full-screen mode.
  • Home and End keys now do the things they say on them.
  • Emoji probably works now. Please be responsible.
  • Centered text works better.

New in Slugline 1.1.1 (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Fixes an issue where the Help menu would just be a jerk sometimes.

New in Slugline 1.1.0 (Jan 27, 2015)

  • Fixes bugs and makes things better and also exists:
  • When you turn off Character CONT’Ds in Document Settings, they are now really off, even in Preview and Print.
  • Pressing Tab at the end of a Dialogue element adds a Parenthetical to the next line. (Softly.)
  • Fixed a rare-but-nasty bug where missing or corrupted system fonts could result in no as-you-type formatting, changing Slugline from a screenwriting app into, well, an app.
  • Other changes:
  • You can now search the help documentation! And Slugline’s menus!
  • We fixed a rare case where long notes could be truncated in the Outline.
  • Arrow keys now nudge the Preview scroll in a soothing, pleasant manner.
  • When you start a Character with @, Slugline now offers auto-complete suggestions for other “forced” character names.
  • Speaking of forcing Character elements, you can now do that from the context menu.

New in Slugline 1.0.9 (Apr 24, 2014)

  • Improves handling of Character elements containing punctuation and non-English letters, and fixes a bug where Slugline would become unresponsive to typing, as well as a bug where certain Character elements wouldn't resume correctly across a page break.

New in Slugline 1.0.8 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • Fixes a bug with Character elements containing punctuation, and updates the help documents to Fountain 1.1.

New in Slugline 1.0.6 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Slugline now supports Fountain 1.1. What exactly does this mean? You literally don’t even need to know.
  • OK, there is one Fountain 1.1 feature you might like. You can now convert anything to a Character by choosing Force Character from the Format menu. This means you can have Character names with lower-case letters, or even non-roman letters. Speak up, McCLANE, Богдана, and 黒澤!
  • Oh yeah, and Lyrics! Put a tilde (typographical, not Swintonian) at the beginning of some dialogue, and let it go.
  • Don’t like our fancy new automatic Character CONT’Ds? Now you can now switch them off, in File → Document Settings.
  • Other changes:
  • Added a few more transitions to the autocomplete menu. Now you’re just an F away from FADE IN.
  • Pressing Return at the end of a Note jumps you out of the Note. Neat.
  • Made it easier to insert a Parenthetical after a Character—just press Tab.
  • And yes, of course, numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. No, seriously, we made things a little faster.

New in Slugline 1.0.4 (Jan 20, 2014)

  • New features:
  • See page breaks as you write. Finally.
  • Automatic (CONT’D) after successive dialogue by the same character.
  • Dual Dialogue! Just press ⌘D. Don’t everyone thank us at once.
  • Slugline now remembers your cursor position when you save, so you can pick up right where you left off.
  • Other changes and bug fixes:
  • We squashed the bug where hiding Slugline would quit the app. That’s how committed we are to keeping you writing.
  • Check Spelling While Typing (those red squiggly underlines) is now On by default. You can toggle this at Edit → Spelling and Grammar → Check Spelling While Typing.
  • Character names can now begin with a number. We’re talking to you, Lawrence.
  • We've improved Pagination, with more reliable breaks for Dialogue and Action.
  • Lower-contrast page color. From now on, writing with sunglasses on is purely an affectation, sorry.
  • Uppercase (⌘K) is now smarter. It can cycle back to where you started, even mixed-case.
  • End an uppercase line with a colon, press Return, and Slugline will convert it to a Transition automatically.
  • No more auto-capitalization... after an ellipsis.
  • Auto-completion for [[Notes]]. Type [[ and Slugline will add the ]] for you.
  • Emphasis shortcuts now work with no selection. Press ⌘B with nothing selected, and Slugline will create the asterisks that magically make stuff bold, placing the cursor in between.

New in Slugline 1.0.2 (May 11, 2013)

  • New feature:
  • Select text in Preview, then switch back to Edit. The flowers are still standing! (And the text remains selected.)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where all text would appear to take on the formatting of a line from earlier in the screenplay. Derps.
  • Even more super mega fixes the permissions warning bug so that it works with .txt files. Purists.
  • The return of the Recent Documents list in the Welcome screen. We hope you already have lots.
  • Fixes a potential crasher.
  • But more importantly, fixes LOTS of typos.

New in Slugline 1.0.1 (Apr 27, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes!