winget install --id vkbo.novelWriterAbout novelWriter
A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness.
What's new in 26.1
Release Notes The 26.1 release is based on the features added in 26.1 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC 1. See the website for complete Release Notes. Detailed Changelog Improvements - When exporting manuscripts to DocX (Word), the document will no longer expand hard line breaks by when default when justified margins are enabled. Issue #2690. PR #2732. - The "Add titles for notes" label in Manuscript Build settings has been updated and should now be clearer. Issue #2727. PR #2729. Internationalisation - A missing translation string for projects was added. Issue #2730. PR #2731. - Norwegian and US English translations updated by @vkbo. PR #2738. - Japanese translation updated bu @hebekeg. PR #2738. - Dutch translation updated by @risingphoenix73. PR #2738. - German translation updated by @HeyMyian. PR #2738. - Polish translation updated by @Nauthizz. PR #2738. - Latin American Spanish translation updated by @tmarplatt. PR #2738. - Czech translation updated by Tomáš Zmek. PR #2738. - Italian translation updated by Lou Cyper. PR #2738.
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26.1 | Unknown | Release Notes The 26.1 release is based on the features added in 26.1 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC 1. See the website for complete Release Notes. Detailed Changelog Improvements - When exporting manuscripts to DocX (Word), the doc... |
| 2.8.2 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes an issue with launching novelWriter via a project file on Windows, adds an alert when the spell check dictionary cannot be loaded, handles headings in HTML manuscripts the... |
| 2.8.1 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes an issue where the application could crash due to a change in PyQt/Qt 6.10. The issue is related to certain input methods, and is at least triggered when using Spotlight o... |
| 2.8 | Unknown | Release Notes The 2.8 release is based on the features added in 2.8 beta 1 and 2.8 RC 1. See the website for complete Release Notes. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes - Fix an issue where the app could crash when the user past... |
| 2.7.5 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes an issue related to crashes when using the completer menu under certain conditions, and improves positioning of the input box for CJK languages. Detailed Changelog Bugfixe... |
| 2.7.4 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that updates the Czech and French translations, and makes some changes to the available Material Symbols icon themes. Additional icon themes are no longer automatically included in a... |
| 2.7.3 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a bug in, and makes a few improvement to, Preferences. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes - Fixes an issue where novelWriter would crash if a % was added to any of the free text... |
| 2.7.2 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes several issues related to DocX and PDF manuscript documents, improves how line breaks, alignment and indentation is processed, and fixes some issues with displaying tags f... |
| 2.7.1 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes some issues with tags and references, and issue with the auto-complete menu on Windows, and issues with the AppImage on Linux. The Czech translation for 2.7 has been compl... |
| 2.7 | Unknown | Release Notes The 2.7 release updates the 2.7 RC 1 release and makes an improvement to the build settings tool. It also updates most translations and updates the French version of the documentation. See the website for c... |
| 2.6.3 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a translation issue that affected several labels on the user interface where the wrong or no translation was used. The bug affected all languages except for English. Detai... |
| 2.6.2 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a few issues with the project tree: The Empty Trash option in the menu now works again, and it is no longer possible to accidentally drag and drop project items onto the r... |
| 2.6.1 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes an issue with creating new notes from the editor context menu, adds an option to turn off the confirmation box that pops up when closing novelWriter, and improves the rece... |
| 2.6 | Unknown | Release Notes The 2.6 release fixes a few minor issues from the RC 1 pre-release, and updates most translations. See the website for complete Release Notes. Detailed Changelog Bugfixes - Fixed a bug in the novel selector... |
| 2.5.3 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a few minor bugs in the user interface, and with the HTML manuscript format. This patch also adds a Russian translation, and updates the German and Portuguese translations... |
| 2.5.2 | Unknown | Release Notes This is a patch release that fixes a series of issues mostly affecting dialogue highlighting in the document viewer. The way the text is formatted in the viewer changed a lot in 2.5, and there were a few is... |