Status Oct-10-2024

[mkoskim]

Status updates.

[mkoskim]

First usable version:

This project is now done:

https://github.com/users/mkoskim/projects/1/views/1

I added a button to editor's top-most toolbar to edit head info. Later we might consider nicer solutions, but this one is fine for now.

I decided to move persistent settings out from the first usable version requirements. True, it is annoying that the editor don't remember the settings, but it does not make it unusable.

[mkoskim]

There are now to new features.

Filler elements: With filler elements, you can make it to report as many missing words as you like. Make a filler by typing "++" at the beginning of the line, and write a number how many missing words you want it to report. E.g.

++ 1000 <--- reports 1,000 missing words

Tags: You can now add tags for text blocks. Make a tag list by starting a like with "@" and enter a list of comma-separated tags. There is a tag list at the right panel. Clicking a tag will make scenes that contain that tag visible, and fold all others. For example:

@ todo, arthur, anna, holy grail, living room

That will tag the text with tags "todo", "arthur", "anna", "living room" and "holy grail". Tags can be anything. With tags, you want to "group" certain pieces of text together. They may tell about the same place, same character, or they belong to same subplot. So, whenever you like to work specially with that character, place, artefact, or subplot, clicking a tag will show only the scenes where that specific thing is involved.

[mkoskim]

Status Oct 7, 2024

Daily word counts: MaweJS now stores daily word counts when saving the document. It can
now show you how many words (actual words) you have written today, and later you can
see the progression from "Statistics" view.

Text paste performance: The other improvement is text paste performance. Earlier, it took minutes to paste
500 kB text to editor. Now it takes few seconds. This is important improvement because
before we have file imports, the only way to move your story project to MaweJS is
to copy-paste it to editor.

[mkoskim]

Status Oct 9, 2024:

I worked a bit with file imports. When importing, MaweJS now has dialog to import preview, where you can see what's going to be imported. You can set some options, like newlines (single or double), and patterns to separate parts and scenes. I added "mammoth" library to read .docx files and convert them to text for importing.

Furthermore, there is now new Import From Clipboard. You can copy text from various sources, and choosing this option opens the clipboard content in import preview.

[mkoskim]

Status Oct 10, 2024

Implemented unnumbered chapter element: creating, loading, saving and exporting chapters without numbers. You can use these if you want to make prologue or epilogue, or act breaks, and you don't want them to disturb chapter numbering.

Later, I think I will implement also "unexported" chapters, elements that will only serve you as marks in the index.

[mkoskim]

Status Oct 13, 2024

Great day! First, I added acts as topmost elements. They come handy in longer stories. Second, I figured out one way to tackle the performance problem with ID integrity check & fix code. It greatly helps maintaining the responsiveness of the editor with longer texts.