What's new in ghostwriter 2.2.0
Sep 19, 2022
- Fixed:
- Issue #813: Opening the app after a fresh install no longer complains of a file backup error when text is entered.
- Issue #815: Invoking the app from the command line with a non-existent file path specified will now create an empty file for the path.
- Spaces are now properly underlined in emphasized text when emphasis style option is set to underline.
- Added:
- A line break symbol is now drawn at the end of lines having two trailing spaces to designate a line break.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.6 (Sep 14, 2022)
- Fixed:
- Changed Classic theme's dark mode selection color from the light mode's color to the appropriate dark color.
- Changed live preview's code block styling to scroll on overflow.
- Fixed regression in translations failing to load.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.5 (Sep 12, 2022)
- FIXED:
- When renaming a file, file will now be saved even if the new file name already exists, provided the user chooses to proceed from the warning dialog.
- Spell check dialog no longer eats HTML angle brackets when showing the context around a misspelled word.
- Application now supports Qt 6 while maintaining backward compatibility with Qt 5.
- Various under-the-hood refactoring/improvements have been added.
- CSS and QSS style sheets now support SASS-style variables.
- Hover and pressed button effects have been added to improve visibility.
- User interface component icons and text have had their coloring adjusted to better meet WCAG accessibility standards.
- Issues , 803, and 809: To prevent the equation and typing duplication in math equations, math rendering has been restricted to the Pandoc processor. All other Markdown processors will no longer render math, since special preprocessing is required that only Pandoc does.
- Added a command line option --disable-gpu to disable GPU acceleration to allow users to bypass a Windows bug in Qt 6 where full screen windows having an OpenGL component (in this case, QWebEngineView) cannot display menus (popups, menus from the menu bar).
New in ghostwriter 2.1.4 (Jun 20, 2022)
- FIXED:
- Replaced whole word icon in find/replace due to Windows 10 not rendering Unicode characters used for old icon.
- Changed selection color for Plainstraction Dark theme to be brighter.
- Issues #772, #773, and #777: Added workaround for segmentation fault on GTK/Gnome 42 at startup.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.3 (May 29, 2022)
- Fixed:
- Issue #751: Fixed various sidebar and HTML preview size issues.
- Issue #724: App waits longer for Pandoc to finish reporting version on Windows before timing out.
- Issue #762: Fixed typo in Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Fixed editor margins on resize and on sidebar hide/show.
- Updated Russian translation.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.2 (Mar 16, 2022)
- FIXED:
- Issue #624: Text on line breaks is now correctly highlighted.
- Issue #708: Removing large portions of text no longer freezes the app.
- Issue #732: User-defined width of sidebar is now restored on load.
- Issue #738: App waits longer for Pandoc to start up on Windows before timing out.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.1 (Jan 3, 2022)
- Fixed:
- Untitled documents are no longer created upon opening or closing a new, empty document.
- Updated Chinese translation.
- Fix compilation issue with Ubuntu 18.04.
New in ghostwriter 2.1.0 (Dec 10, 2021)
- Added:
- Untitled documents are now autosaved to a draft folder when autosave is enabled.
- Added preferences button to open the draft folder location where untitled documents are autosaved.
- Added check box option to load last opened file on startup. If left unchecked, a new file will be opened on startup
- Added ability to word count indicator in status bar to display a different statistic. (The indicator is now a combo box.)
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.