Version 2.6 Beta 2

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Version 2.6 Beta 2 [2024-12-23]

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 Rewrite project tree as a model/view set #2119.
• You can now drag and drop items from the project tree onto the editor and viewer to load the documents there. PR Rewrite project tree as a model/view set #2119.

Bugfixes

• Make line height in DocX scale correctly. Issue Build Manuscript: docx applies extra line height to headings #2099. PR Refactor manuscript format text scaling #2102.
• Make margins scale with font size in ODT and HTML output. PR Refactor manuscript format text scaling #2102.
• Fix DocX page count to work with Office 365. PR Refactor manuscript format text scaling #2102.
• Fix font scaling issues for PDF output. Issue Font issues with PDF output #2100. PR Fix PDF formatting #2104.
• Fix an issue that cleared the editor when the return key was used on a folder item. PR Editor clears when hitting return on a project folder #2113.
• Fix an issue where the viewer and preview would not reset text emphasis when selecting a default font style with emphasis features. Issue Viewer and preview don't reset to selected font style after emphasis #2121. PR Fix font style and PDF issues #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 Setting the document font in Preferences overrides Build Settings #2118. PR Fix font style and PDF issues #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 Minor improvements for 2.6 beta release #2095.
• Use icons for text margin settings in Build Settings. Issue Build Settings: layout for Text Margins setting #2098. PR Refactor manuscript format text scaling #2102.
• Replace the toolbar icon in the editor. PR Update editor toolbar icon #2103.
• Turn off auto-default button on the Build dialog. Issue Output format dialog defaults to "Close" button #2101. PR Fix default button issue on Build dialog #2105.
• Add ANSI colours to log output for easier debugging. PRs Add ANSI colours to log output #2114 and Rewrite log colouring #2117.
• Document header is now aligned to the bottom of the top page margin in the same way for ODT and DocX output. Issue Page header position in docx compared to odt #2120. PR Align headers to bottom of page margin for ODT and DocX #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 Dialogue highlighting works incorrectly with chinese grammer #2131. PR Refactor quoted dialogue detection #2138.

Code Improvements

• Completely rewrite the project tree into a model/view set with one single definition if the project structure. PR Fix secondary issues due to Qt tree widget bug #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 Typing - letter rendering lagging #2129. PR Improve editor auto-replace #2132.

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