Novelwriter

* Botched release. Replaced with 0.6.3. Crashes when Build Novel Project is opened.

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**Bugfixes**

* The Outline view now takes into consideration the exported flag, and does not show excluded files
in the outline. PR 224.
* Page layout format was ignored when exporting project. The formatting of this layout has now been
added. PR 224.
* If multiple headings were present in a file, the sorting of headings in the Outline view would
follow a text sort not a numerical sort of the line numbers. That is, it would be sorted as "1",
"10", "2", "20", etc. This has been fixed. PR 226.
* The text justification in the preview in the Build Novel Project was following the main
Preferences settings, not the Build settings. This did not affect the formatting of the exported
file itself, but the preview is now made consistent with the build settings. Issue 228, PR 231.

**User Interface**

* Recent projects in the open project dialog can be removed from the list by hitting the delete
key. PR 225.
* Moved the browse button to after the path box in the open project dialog. PR 225.

**Other Changes**

* The three remaining dependencies now have a minimum version set. PR 224.
* Moved the sample project up one folder level. PR 224.

**Documentation**

* The export page in the documentation erroneously stated that line breaks could be added to titles
by adding `%\\%`. The correct syntax is `\\`. Issue 229, PR 231.

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**Bugfixes**

* Fixed a bug in validation of `tag:` meta tags where one or more spaces before the `:` would
still pass as a valid tag, but the keyword index array would be missing those spaces in its
counter. This mainly affected the highlighting of keywords, which would be misaligned. PR 206.

**User Interface**

* The Export Tool has been removed and replaced by a new tool called "Build Novel Project". The new
tool has the same filtering options as the Export Tool, but with more formatting options for
titles. It also has a preview window to display the generated document. A Save As button provides
exports to HTML, novelWriter Markdown, plain text, PDF and Open Document format. LaTeX export has
not been ported over, and interfacing with Pandoc is no longer supported either. Although, as
before, the HTML export can be converted with Pandoc to other formats outside of novelWriter. The
new tool also supports printing. PRs 204, 220 and 221.
* The Project Settings, Preferences, Item Editor, Merge Documents, and Split Documents dialogs have
been redesigned. The ones with tabs now have vertical tabs on the left with horizontal labels.
The dialog design should be more compact, and have room for more tabs for future settings.
PR 212.
* A new icon, as well as a mimetype icon for the project files, have been designed and added to the
app. PRs 213 and 214.
* The About dialog has been completely redesigned to allow more information. PR 217.
* The Open Project dialog has been cleaned up and made more readable. The project paths have been
moved out of the list, and are now displayed when an item is selected instead. Icons have been
added, and the New project dialog can also be triggered from this dialog. PR 218.
* The document stats have been added to the details panel below the project tree. PR 219.

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**Bugfixes**

* When running on Windows 10, some of the buttons were missing icons. More fallback icons have been
added to ensure that all current buttons have a fallback path that always ends in an icon.
PR 211.

**User Interface**

* The statusbar has been redesigned a bit. The block icons showing document and project saved
status have been replaced by LED icons. The statistics has been moved to a separate label, and
most of the detailed stats moved to its tooltip. PR 210.
* Default icon theme is now `Typicons Grey Light`. PR 211.
* Clicking on the document header selects the document in the project tree, but this functionality
has been enhanced to also ensure the document is expanded and visible in the tree. If it's
scrolled out of view, the tree will scroll it into view. PR 215.
* Syntax highlighting of text in quotes can now be turned off in Preferences. PR 215.

**Core Functionality**

* Checking for version dependencies and a few packages (aside from PyQt5) is now done later in the
start-up so that it is possible to alert the user with a dialog box instead of terminal error
messages. PR 210.
* Made a few minor changes to the code so novelWriter can run with Python 3.4.3 and Qt 5.2.1, that
is, it runs on last version of Ubuntu 14.04. This level of compatibility is not guaranteed to
remain in the future, but for now, the changes have no impact on functionality. PR 210.

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**Bugfixes**

* Fixed a bug where only some of the text would be rendered in the editor window when a large text
document was loaded. The text is there in the buffer, but the rendering process was interrupted
by the function that recalculates margins. This recalculation was added with the document tiles
in 0.5. The re-rendering of the text could be triggered by opening the search bar, indicating
that it was caused by the shifting of the vertical document frame. PR 208.

**User Interface**

* The icon theme functionality of novelWriter has been reworked. For the default system theme, very
little has changed. It should still load whatever the system provides, but this doesn't work for
all icons on Windows 10 for instance. It is now possible to select between three icon themes in
the Preferences dialog, independent of the GUI theme. Using a theme breaks the dependency on the
operating system to provide standard icons. Qt provides some, but not all needed by novelWriter.
PR 207.
* Added a check that warns if the project file was saved with a newer version of novelWriter as
that may cause meta information to be lost. This warning will remain there until the file format
is finalised. This is an issue with preserving certain settings, not the project structure
itself. PR 205

**Debugging**

* Reduced the number of command line switches needed for debug runs. PR 205.

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This release of novelWriter has a number of feature updates, bringing it one step closer to initial
feature completeness for a version 1.0 release.

In the pipeline for 1.0 is a completely new export tool with improved and added options, including
printing. Further improvements are also planned for the new Outline View added in this version.
When these additions are completed, novelWriter will start moving towards a 1.0 release via release
candidates. I'm hoping to wrap up this year and a half long stage of initial development soon so
that I can spend more time using it than creating it.

**Additional thanks** to countjocular for PRs 173 and 174, and to johnblommers for all the
helpful feedback and issue reports for the new features added in this, and previous releases.

Notable Changes

* The Timeline View dialog is now gone. Instead, the main window area has been split into two tabs.
The first, the "Editor", contains the Document Editor and Viewer panels. The second, the
"Outline", contains a new Outline View of the novel part of the project, broken down into a tree
view of all the project headings. All meta data associated with each part of the novel can be
viewed in further columns, selectable from a drop down menu by right-clicking the header. These
columns can also be rearranged.
* Both the Editor and Viewer panels now have a header showing the document label as seen in the
Project Tree. Optionally, the full path of the document can be viewed. Clicking this header will
select the document in the Project Tree, making it easier to find where the document belongs in
the structure.
* A project load dialog has been added when novelWriter is launched. It will show you your recently
opened projects, let you browse for those that aren't listed, or create a new project. More
features will be added to this dialog later on.
* The Preferences dialog has been completely redesigned to make it easier to find the various
settings and understand what they do.

Detailed Changelog

**Features**

* An Outline View panel has been added to the main GUI window. The Outline View can show all meta
data associated with a novel heading in a column-wise manner. The Timeline View feature has been
dropped in favour of the new Outline View. PRs 140, 181 and 191.
* A synopsis feature has been added. It allows a comment to be flagged as a synopsis comment to be
picked up by the indexer and displayed in the GUI. Currently available in the Outline View.
PRs 140 and 191.
* A document title bar has been added to the top of the editor and viewer. These show the document
label as seen in the project tree. Optionally, the full document path can be shown. Clicking the
title will highlight the document in the project tree. PRs 192 and 194.

**User Interface**

* A Project Load dialog has been added, which pops up when novelWriter is launched. It allows for
opening other recent projects, browse for projects, or start a new project. This replaces the
former Open and New Project features, as well as the Recent Projects menu entry. PRs 177 and
183.
* The command line switches for debugging have been changed a bit. Higher level of debugging now
includes the lower levels, preventing the need for specifying for instance both debug and verbose
debug. PR 182.
* The Preference dialog has been completely redesigned. The options are now displayed vertically,
in four tabs instead of two, and with more informative text explaining what they do. Some
previously unconnected options have also been added. PR 193.

**Bug Fixes**

* The `install.py` script has been fixed to reflect changes in storage location of the themes.
PR 174.
* Fixed a bug with launching Preferences without Enchant spell checking installed. PR 190.
* A minor issue with running backups with no backup path set has been fixed. The backups would be
written into the source folder, or wherever novelWriter was launched from, which is a very messy
fallback. PR 195.

**Documentation**

* Some outdated links and a number of typos and spelling errors have been corrected. PR 173.
* Documentation has been brought up to date with the current set of features of novelWriter.
PR 202.

**Project Structure**

* Opening a project now writes a lock file to alert the user if the same project is opened more
than once. The warning can be ignored if the user wants to proceed. PR 179.
* Two new meta tags have been added to the project file to store a counter for the number of times
the project has been saved or autosaved. The meta information is not currently displayed in the
GUI, but could be added to an About Project dialog in the future. The PR also adds checks to
ensure XML attributes exist before attempting to load them. PR 180.
* A single line of document meta data is now written to the top of document files. They mainly
serve to identify the file content if one opens the file directly in an external editor, but also
assist the Orphaned Files tool to identify the files when they are found, but missing from the
project tree. PRs 200 and 201.

**Code Improvements**

* For the Outline View, the `NWIndex` class has been restructure and extensively rewritten. It is
more fault tolerant, and will automatically rebuild a corrupt index loaded from cache. PR 140.
* The way that dialog options (which options were selected last time a dialog was open) has been
rewritten. All data is now stored in a single JSON file in the project meta folder. PR 175.
* Since the config class is instanciated before the GUI, error reporting to the user was tricky. An
error cache has now been added to allow non-critical errors to be displayed after the GUI is
built. PR 176.
* All source files now have the minimal GPLv3 license note at the top. PR 188.
* Also added license info to the command line output. PR 189.
* Large chunks of the code has been restructured. Mainly the non-GUI parts, which have mostly been
merged into a new `core` folder. Several classes which are only used by a single object have been
merged into the same file, reducing the total number of source files a bit. PR 199.

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