FocusWriter 1.4.5 released
Posted on March 25, 2014, under FocusWriter
I have made a new bugfix release of FocusWriter, version 1.4.5. This release fixes quite a few smaller bugs. It will most likely be the last bugfix release I make before the next feature release, which if I hope to have finished soon. Enjoy!
7 comments
pleasingtothemind says:
March 26, 2014 at 9:07 pm
“the next feature release, which if I hope to have finished soon”
Exciting news. Do you have a project road map which is publicly viewable?
Off the top of my head, the only thing which jumps out at missing is auto-grammar corrections (specifically, capitalizing first letters of a sentence, place names, and the word ‘I’). A thesaurus would be a neat feature too.
Love this application. It’s always open with several tabs.
kingstonjazz says:
March 30, 2014 at 6:38 pm
Hello Graeme.
Just wanted to thank you for your excellent work with FocusWriter. I’ve been using it all weekend long to work on a grant application. It’s just great! Love the way it strips out formatting when copying from Word, and .odt as an output format is perfect for me.
You have a perfectly walked a fine line between adding features and keeping things simple. FocusWriter has quickly displaced PyRoom, Bean, and OmmWriter as my new full-screen distraction-free editor.
I do my best to support and use cross-platform Open Source Software wherever possible. Though I’m new to FocusWriter, it’s already earned a spot alongside my other cross-platform favourites such as Firefox, Thunderbird, KeePassX, Eclipse, OpenNX, and VirtualBox. Thanks so much and keep up the fantastic work
kokuzendo says:
April 5, 2014 at 1:28 am
I just started using the last portable version, and it´s great. I just want to ask, is it a problem with my keyboard, or the ctrl+down arrow for going to the next paragraph and ctrl+up for going to the beginning of the previous doesn´t work? I agree with pleasingtothe mind about capitalizing the first letters of a sentence and the word “I” would be useful. Actually, having replacements would be nice too, but that can wait. THANKS for a great program!
Graeme says:
April 5, 2014 at 9:15 am
@kokuzendo Thanks, I’m glad you like it! There is no problem with your keyboard; FocusWriter doesn’t do that, but I will consider adding it. However, I won’t be adding automatic capitalizing the first letters of sentences; that’s what the shift key is for. Sorry.
kokuzendo says:
April 5, 2014 at 9:54 pm
You’re very welcome. Capitalizing the first letter of a sentence is not that critical, of course. Ctrl+ arrow up or down to go to the beginning of a paragraph or to the the next one, actually, is common to most text editors and word processors, and really useful, so, it would be a good addition. Once again, thanks so much for a very good software. I remember the first or second version, and it has improved greatly!
Jack Wolfe says:
April 20, 2014 at 4:46 pm
Out of curiosity, would it be possible to implement an underscore style cursor? Thanks!
Graeme says:
April 20, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Sorry, but the text cursor is drawn by QTextEdit, and it doesn’t allow that kind of control.