Byword Changelog
Byword 2.0 (June 4th, 2013)
Blog publishing
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Byword for Mac
- Keep scroll position on Markdown preview
- Copy rich text to clipboard
- Application Sandboxing
- Many fixes and improvements
Byword for iOS
- All documents are now downloaded automatically when connected to WiFi for offline availability
- Full featured offline support in Dropbox including rename, duplicate and delete documents
- Move and duplicate documents between folders on iCloud, Dropbox and device storage
- Improved conflict resolution with visual inspection of each conflicting version
- Better integration with other apps via Open in…
- Keep scroll position on Markdown preview
- New font options and adjustable font size
- Many fixes and other improvements
Byword 1.5 (March 14th, 2012)
iCloud support
- To work with the brand new Byword for iOS app, the Mac app now includes iCloud support to keep your documents safe and synchronized seamlessly across all your Mac and iOS devices.
- Byword for Mac also includes a dedicated iCloud Open panel that allows search, open, rename and delete documents stored in iCloud.
Text Zoom
- One of the most requested features. Byword now lets you increase text zoom without changing font size in menu View ‣ Text Zoom. Seat back, relax and write comfortably.
- Autocompletion of parenthesis, brackets and quotes disabled by default
- Byword no longer automatically closes parenthesis, brackets and quotes. This can still be enabled/disabled in menu Edit ‣ Substitutions ‣ Smart Pairs.
Other improvements and bug fixes
- Printing from Markdown preview now prints what you see
- Justified alignment option for rich text
- Fixed faded line when typing at the end of document
- Fixed missing first paragraph when exporting certain documents to RTF and Word
- Improved keyboard navigation on Markdown preview
- Improved QuickCursor integration in OS X Lion
- Updated MultiMarkdown to version 3.3
Byword 1.4 (September 22nd, 2011)
Merged Plain Text and Markdown modes
- All plain text documents are now considered Markdown documents
- All Markdown features now work in .txt and .text documents
Better text manipulation helpers
- Support for indenting (⌃⌘’) and outdenting lines (⌃⌘←)
- Support for moving lines up (⌃⌘’) and down (⌃⌘")
- Auto-indentation when inserting new lines
- Full paragraph indentation support in Rich text
Accessibility API support
- Every Byword functionality is now accessible to visual and hearing impaired users
Other improvements and bug fixes
- Remembers Typewriter mode settings
- Remembers the preferred file extension
- Better QuickCursor integration, specially on OS X Snow Leopard
- Better transition to full-screen in OS X Lion
- Optional custom full-screen for dual-monitors setups in OS X Lion (see FAQ)
- Dragging links and images now inserts Markdown links and images references
- Fixed footnotes when exporting to PDF
- Fixed an issue with Thai language in RTF
- Fixed drawing glitches in the Versions Browser
- Improved Spanish localization (thanks Allan Tépper)
- Russian localization (thanks Maxim Dremin)
Byword 1.3.1 (July 29th, 2011)
- Improved OS X Lion compatibility
- Fixed ‘Save a Version’ issues on OS X Lion
- Fixed an issue with unicode characters affecting non-Latin alphabets
- Improved user interface for creating new documents
Byword 1.3 (July 15th, 2011)
New
- Markdown syntax highlighting
- Improved lists support
- Typewriter scrolling mode
- Document icons for txt, rtf and markdown files
- Word and character counters per selection
- More Markdown export options: PDF, HTML, Word, RTF and LaTeX
- Support for Divvy and Moom apps
- Support for Papers2 ‘Magic Manuscripts’.
OS X Lion Compatibility
- Native full screen support
- Auto Save support
- Versions support
- Seamless Application Resume.
Improvements
- Fixed scrolling variations during save
- Removed document title in full screen
- Fixed encoding when exporting to HTML with Byword theme
- Reduced document margins
- AppleScript support
- Many other improvements and bug fixes.
Byword 1.2 (May 23rd, 2011)
- Markdown support with editing and preview
- Byword can now edit Markdown documents and preview them immediately using a MultiMarkdown rendering engine.
Byword 1.1.1 (April 27th, 2011)
- Remember last opened documents
- Autosave and document recovery
- QuickCursor support (ODB Suite)
- Improved encoding handling to work better with Dropbox
- Improved printing
- Hyphenation
- Other minor fixes
- Added translations for French, German, Italian and Portuguese
Byword 1.1 (March 30th, 2011)
- Word and character counters
- Dark theme preference
- Support for older Macs (32-bit)
- Improved scrolling behavior
- Fixed formatting shortcuts not working in some cases
- Fixed encoding compatibility with other text editors
- Remembers full-screen and window mode across launches
- Remembers Smart Quotes, Smart Dashes and other substitutions
- Better integration with Spaces
Byword 1.0 (March 14th, 2011)
- Initial release