Book Writer™ Version Notes

Summary of additions and changes

• Added:  Database records for each project.
• Added:  Independent database records for writings not assigned to a project.
• Added:  New tabs for project databases--People, Places, Events, Notes.
• Added:  Database menu--manage project databases and independent databases.
• Added:  Dialog--View/Search All Records--for alternative database management.
• Added:  RTF editing for records.  Open/save to/from disk, or copy/paste to/from writings.
• Added:  New item on editor's pop-up menu, "Add to Dictionary."
• Added:  Option to automate indentation of new paragraphs.
• Added:  Option to set default tab (indentation) length.
• Added:  Additional error trapping for the Web Tools browser.
• Added:  Restore last screen position of Web Tools.
• Added:  Menu Item - Insert | Insert Symbol.
• Added:  Additional link under Help--1000literaryagents.com.
• Added:  Tip of the Day help.
• Added:  Additional options to control database and notebook tabs.
• Added:  Vertical ruler.
• Added:  Support for import of Word 2007 RTF files.
• Changed:  Help file.
• Changed:  Added file-selection dialog to Project | Merge ... Files.
• Changed:  Licensing system allows various unlocks.
• Changed:  Detection of proper help file in Windows Vista.
• Changed:  Project | Merge, ... | Copy, ... | Properties, etc., automatically skip project file names for which files on disk have not yet been created.

Previous version (4.5—4.6)

• Added: Mouse wheel support for all mice.
• Added: "Close Before", "Close After", "Close Other Tabs", "Properties", and "Word & Page Count" menu items on the editor's right-click popup menu.
• Changed: "Project | Merge RTF Files into One" optionally inserts a page break before each appended file.
• Added: Dock and Undock items to menu of Disk Data/Editor Move.
• Added: Menu item -- Help | Make a Suggestion (Web).
• Added: Default display "Headers/Footers" in Options | Editors.
• Added: Default display "Page Border" in Options | Editors.
• Added: Default paragraph "Double Space" in Options | Editors.
• Added: Default page-layout margins in Options | Editors.
• Added: "Edit | Remove Empty Lines"--remove empty lines between paragraphs.
• Added: "Search | Go to Page Number"--jump to indicated page.
• Added: "Project | Project Properties"--total of word counts, pages, etc., for all files in a project.
• Fixed: Rarely, a newly opened RTF file would not show till a user action, e.g., scrolling, forced a repaint.
• Fixed: Project | Disk Data/Editor Move did not open in the Project Commander on program start-up when it had been docked there.
• Fixed: Project | Zip/Unzip Project Files caused a stream error in some operations.

Complete list of changes to the RTF engine for Version 5 (available now) and Version 5.5 (available mid 2008)

• Support for Even/Odd headers and footers.
• Autofit table row. You can now create a table with the Autofit attribute which instructs the editor to automatically adjust the table column width as the user enters the text into the table cells.
• Support for popular Chinese paragraph numbering schemes.
• Support for placing the text-box anchor within a paragraph facilitating accurate placement of text-boxes anchored within a paragraph.
• Improved handling of punctuations and mix text in right-to-left text processing.
• Separation line between columns for the multi-column sections.
• Alternate methods to access pass-by-reference parameters in scripts.
• Automatic resize the pictures to fit the containing page, table cell, or a section column.
• Additional unicode handling functions.
• Vertical ruler.
• Tab-type selection on the ruler.
• Enhancements to the Track-Changes feature. TE now allow you to reject one or all changes done to the document.
• Arrow line object.
• Ability to change the combo-box width on the toolbar.
• Hyphenation support using a third party control.
• Character scaling: The user can now scale the text horizontally by specifying a scale percentage.
• Additional editing functions to automatically add new table rows.
• Menus for the web control: The menu allows the user to access all editing functions when using the control within a web browser.
• Track Changes: TE now allows for tracking changes by multiple reviewers. You can find and accept individual changes, or all changes.
• Auto-completion feature: TE now allows your users to type in keywords. TE can then automatically expand the keyword to a specified phrase or word.
• Page Line Numbering: This feature allow you to display and print line number on the left margin area. The page-line numbering feature is available at the section level.
• Page background color: This feature allows for setting the page background color at the section level.
• TIF picture support.
• Undo of table attributes: In addition to table text modification, you can now undo any modification to the table structure and attributes.
• Embedded ActiveX controls.
• Full drag/drop: You can now drag text from TE and drop it in to another application, or drag text from another application and drop it in to TE Control.
• Support for Dragon Speech Library.
• Nested shape groups: This feature strengthens the TE's ability to display complex nested shape groups found in MSWord generated documents.
• Vertical Text in Table Cell: You can now set the text to flow top-to-bottom, or bottom-to-top within a table cell.
• Support for Watermark picture: The watermark picture can be inserted with regular or washed appearance.
• Page Reference Field: This feature allows you to insert the page number of a referenced bookmark. You can also enable hyperlink to jump to the reference bookmark location.
• Custom message and string constants: This feature allows you to translate the editor messages into other languages, or to modify the built-in message text.
• Printer independent word-wrapping and pagination.
• GIF picture feature is now integrated in the editor dll, and is available without any special licensing.
• Enhanced list processing: The user can now use the Enter, Del, and Tab keys to create new list item, terminate the current list, or to increase or decrease the list level.
• Undo and Redo of frame, and drawing objects positioning and resizing operations.
• Paragraph Border Color.
• Outline around the selected table cells.
• Additional numbering formats for displaying the lists.
• Enhanced Input Text fields: The new input text fields can grow dynamically. The field text wraps along with the document text.
• Enhanced Table Operation Undos: Most table edit operations can now be undone.
• Table text deletion: The editor now offers an option to delete the content of the selected table cell, or to delete the entire cell structure.
• Print using standard Windows dialog box, or print using the proprietary dialog box.
• Support for ellipse shape object.
• Support for shape groups. This allow TE to display more complex MSWord files containing pictures and objects.
• Multiple page number formats (decimal, Roman or Latin number formats).
• Display space symbol: Together with the paragraph, cell, and tab symbols, you can now also display the space symbol.
• Underline color. You can specify the color for the underline bar.
• Toolbar enhancement: You can now add new icons to the built-in toolbar.
• Picture cropping - truncate picture or add white space around a picture.
• Vertical centering and bottom alignment of page text.
• Drag the cell border to modify the table row height.
• Undo/redo for spell-checking and search/replace operations.
• Right-to-left and mix latin/arabic text support.
• Long file name support for all file access operations.
• Paragraph border enhancement - support for line between paragraphs.
• Unlimited levels of undos and redos.
• Drag and drop of formatted text from MSWord and other applications.
• Support for hidden paragraphs in list numbering.
• Vertical text support within a frame or text box (top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top text flow).
• Intelli-mouse support with bi-directional mouse wheel cursor.
• Multiple page sizes within a document.
• Single, double or triple line page borders.
• Picture offset - allows you to adjust picture position relative to the text baseline.
• Multiple language text support within a document.
• Output jpeg and png picture in original format reducing file sizes substantially.
• Most DLL functions are now also available as ActiveX control methods.
• Automatic offset for Equation objects.
• Support for embedded ActiveX controls.
• Baseline text alignment within a table cell.
• Search/replace feature for Unicode text.