A markdown-like editor for novels
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.
Release Notes
This is a patch release that fixes control characters in the text breaking manuscript exports, and paragraphs following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript being indented. The bundled Remix Icons have also been downgraded to the last version available under the Apache 2.0 licence. The French translation has been updated.
See the website for complete Release Notes.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where control characters, like null characters, could enter the text and break the DOCX and ODT manuscript formats. Such characters are now stripped when documents are loaded, pasted, dropped or imported into the editor, and when text is extracted from it. By @vkbo. Issue #3038. PR #3039.
- Fixed a bug where the paragraph following a horizontal ruler in the manuscript was indented. It now behaves like it does for other separators. By @vkbo. Issue #3074. PR #3076.
Improvements
- Titles with line breaks in The Manuscript tool's outline tab no longer shows as multiple lines, but shows a line break symbol instead. PR #3078.
Other Changes
- Downgraded the bundled Remix Icons to version 4.8, the last version released under the Apache 2.0 licence. By @vkbo. Issue #3052. PR #3054.
Internationalisation
- French translation updated by aaribaud. PR #3077.
| Publisher | novelWriter |
|---|---|
| Author | Veronica Berglyd Olsen |
| Version | 26.2.2 |
| Release date | 2026-10-11 |
| License | GPL-3.0 |
| Installer type | inno |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Package ID | vkbo.novelWriter |
Install novelWriter from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):
winget install --id=vkbo.novelWriter -e
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