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WriteItNow Changelog

What's new in WriteItNow 6.0.2r

Jun 8, 2020
  • Changes:
  • Better UI
  • Export as DOCX
  • New charts for reading age, word count, writing targets and character relationships
  • Can change UI using themes
  • Create a cast list
  • Chapters and scenes can have structure labels
  • Rewritten program help
  • Rewritten 300 page PDF manual.

New in WriteItNow 5.0.4e (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Changes:
  • Relationships chart has larger icon option
  • Better use of space when exporting pictures
  • Export now takes account of margins when a picture is large
  • Tidy text handles paragraph alignment settings
  • Changed export page size text from "Select Page Size" to "Set A Custom Page Size"
  • Added a small indicator to show selected tab. This is switched on by Settings -> Appearance-> Tabs -> Highlight Selected Tab
  • On export paragraphs are separated by paragraph mark rather than line feed
  • Better tidy text
  • Improved background spell checking
  • Improved interface for padding critique
  • Cards on story board more like 5x3 index cards
  • Story board remembers zoom setting
  • Option to set/hide colored titles on story board
  • New events now use story date not current date
  • Menu shortcuts or File Save, File Save As, New Project and Book Outline now work anywhere
  • Chapters, scenes and characters can specifiy a type. This can be shown on the tree and new types can be added
  • The Unicode character picker now shows characters using the currently selected screen font
  • Added help index
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed relationship chart bug with number of levels shown
  • Fixed bug where justified formatting is forgotten by editor
  • Fixed bug where picture link at start of line is lost on export if 'Change Paragraph Indents' is selected on Tidy Text
  • Fixed export bug where tidy text setting could affect underline
  • Fixed export bug when paragraphs set to justified
  • Background spell check indicator position fixed for 1.5 and double line spacing
  • Cursor at correct position after text paste
  • Cursor position remembered for each tab
  • Fixed tidy text bug with remove duplicate spaces
  • Fixed bug with link insertion when text selected
  • Fixed bug when completion value = 100 for story outline
  • Fixed bug when opening project with illegal XML sequence
  • Fixed bug where synonym replace failed
  • Fixed OS X picture copying bug
  • Fixed bug when switching projects and chapter selected
  • Changed dialog shown on OS X when changing spell checker dictionary

New in WriteItNow 5.0.3g (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Chapter and scene summary can now start from a template
  • Storyline Editor now has filtering options
  • Character tools now include options to generate existing character personality, description and history from add-on data

New in WriteItNow 5.0.2h (Feb 5, 2020)

  • Small changes to export and story outline.
  • EPub export for creating e-books. Quickly create eBooks in ePub format
  • Microsoft Word export
  • New section include Front Matter and Back Matter
  • New PDF Manual
  • The scene and sections now have a summary editor for recording a summary plus details of the characters, locations, events, and props.
  • The editor now includes colored text and background, strike through, subscript, and superscript
  • Text Compare shows the differences between the current text and earlier versions that have been saved as snapshots
  • Use critiques to find cliches, repeated words, etc.
  • Print and Print Preview
  • The writing targets can be shown at the bottom of the screen
  • A picture can be added to each event, location, note, idea and prop
  • Links to pictures can now be added anywhere in the text
  • Record how complete each part of the book is using completion status
  • Many more changes

New in WriteItNow 4.0.7f (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Can see text on conflict graph when using ‘Dark Star’ Look and Feel.
  • When a Character's personality trait is deleted the text description is updated immediately.
  • When exporting title is included for Locations section.
  • Fixed bug when moving Scenes and working on last Scene.
  • Fixed bug when setting character ID color.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.7d (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Better cut and paste of text from PDFs.
  • Runs on newer Macs with Java 1.6
  • Smarter tree update when editing titles.
  • Option to use clearer text cursor.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.6w (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Can print tree. Right click on Overview in tree
  • Lists of synonyms and antonyms for selected word.
  • Option to use identifying color as background color for tree items.
  • Better cut and paste from browser

New in WriteItNow 4.0.6s (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Minor changes to user interface
  • Small changes to help files.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.6r (May 9, 2011)

  • Added 'word frequency' analysis to story tools.
  • Faster background spell checking
  • With auto-save, files only saved if change made.
  • Remembers window sizes when using a multi monitor setup
  • When opening stories will not try to open an invalid file.
  • Fixed bug in global replace which could affect Scene text
  • Full screen editor default size now close to max screen size.
  • When creating a new story the current directory is added to file name.
  • Cut and paste keeps bold/italic and underline.
  • File names can now include '-'
  • Default button on most dialogs is now [OK]
  • Better scrolling on character relationship tables and Events graph.
  • Default story board chapter and scene colors now green and yellow.
  • Word count can include item titles.
  • Can hide 'story saved' dialog.
  • Fixed story date bug when saving BC dates.
  • Character ages now updated as story date changes.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.6c (May 9, 2011)

  • Improved dictionaries.
  • When exporting only asks for file name if user sets this in 'Tool Settings'.
  • Made 'smart quotes' smarter. Now also works on titles.
  • Improved prompt set viewer.
  • Uses standard short cut CTRL+S for save instead of ALT+S
  • Better handling of export of paragraphs indents on Export.
  • Works on screens with vertical resolution as small as 560 pixels.
  • Fixed bug when double clicking on character pictures to select.
  • Improved thesaurus. Can now be shown all the time.
  • Word count now counts hyphenated words as single words.
  • Mac version handles double click on .wnw files
  • Added expand/collapse buttons to tree.
  • Added vertical scroll bar to tree view.
  • Fixed bug so total page count included in header and footer on RTF export
  • StoryBoard is now a dialog
  • StoryBoard Scene cards can show text preview
  • Fixed bug on StoryBoard chapter card text preview
  • Faster start-up.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.5s (May 9, 2011)

  • Added background spell checker.
  • Added Scene conflict graph.
  • Added sorting via pop-up menu on tree.
  • Added identifying colors on tree.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.3b (May 9, 2011)

  • Improved dictionaries.
  • When exporting only asks for file name if user sets this in 'Tool Settings'.
  • Made 'smart quotes' smarter. Now also works on titles.
  • Improved prompt set viewer.
  • Uses standard short cut CTRL+S for save instead of ALT+S
  • Better handling of export of paragraphs indents on Export.
  • Works on screens with vertical resolution as small as 560 pixels.
  • Fixed bug when double clicking on character pictures to select.
  • Improved thesaurus. Can now be shown all the time.
  • Word count now counts hyphenated words as single words.
  • Mac version handles double click on .wnw files
  • Added expand/collapse buttons to tree.
  • Added vertical scroll bar to tree view.
  • Fixed bug so total page count included in header and footer on RTF export
  • StoryBoard is now a dialog
  • StoryBoard Scene cards can show text preview
  • Fixed bug on StoryBoard chapter card text preview
  • Faster start-up.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.2k (May 9, 2011)

  • Works well on small screens where screen height is 600 pixels
  • Fixed export page size bug where units swapped from inches to cms.

New in WriteItNow 4.0.2.h (Jun 19, 2009)

  • Story Board
  • Use this to re-arrange Chapters and Scenes. Use Tools Menu -> Story Board or SHIFT + F5
  • Chapters and Scenes
  • Chapters can now be split into any number of Scenes. See the Chapters Tab.
  • Relationships
  • WriteItNow now handles three types of relationship:
  • Family: 'Eva is the wife of Roy'
  • Personal: 'Eva is a friend of Joe Hill'
  • Other: 'Eva loves 50s rock music'
  • See the Relationships sections on the Characters Tab for more details.
  • Writing Targets
  • Keep track of how many words you've written and how long you've been writing for.
  • Tools -> Writing Targets or SHIFT + F6
  • Readability
  • Chart of readability of all Scenes and Chapters in story.
  • Tools -> Readability or SHIFT + F2
  • Relationships are now shown graphically on the Charts Tab.
  • New Links
  • As well as links to other Tabs you can can create links to web pages and files.
  • This is a link to our web-site.
  • Click on the [Links] button above to add links.
  • Appearance Settings
  • Change the fonts, icons and appearance of WriteItNow. Hide and rename Tabs.
  • Settings Menu -> Appearance.
  • Prompt Sets
  • Use these to get structured help as you write.
  • Use the supplied sets (Tools Menu -> Prompts -> Use Prompt Set)
  • Create your own sets (Tools Menu -> Prompts -> Edit Prompt Sets)
  • Download new sets from our web-site (File -> Downloads ->Prompt Sets)
  • Full Screen Editor
  • This is particularly useful when writing Scenes. Click the full screen button (it's above this text and looks like a white square with four blue arrows) to edit text. This shows an editor which can be resized to fill the screen and which has as few distractions as possible.