Release Notes

Fixed

• Changed Classic theme's dark mode selection color from the light mode's color to the appropriate dark color.
• Changed live preview's code block styling to scroll on overflow.
• Fixed regression in translations failing to load.

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Release Notes

Fixed

• When renaming a file, file will now be saved even if the new file name already exists, provided the user chooses to proceed from the warning dialog.
• Spell check dialog no longer eats HTML angle brackets when showing the context around a misspelled word.
• Application now supports Qt 6 while maintaining backward compatibility with Qt 5.
• Various under-the-hood refactoring/improvements have been added.
• CSS and QSS style sheets now support SASS-style variables.
• Hover and pressed button effects have been added to improve visibility.
• User interface component icons and text have had their coloring adjusted to better meet WCAG accessibility standards.
• Issues #790, 803, and 809: To prevent the equation and typing duplication in math equations, math rendering has been restricted to the Pandoc processor. All other Markdown processors will no longer render math, since special preprocessing is required that only Pandoc does.
• Added a command line option --disable-gpu to disable GPU acceleration to allow users to bypass a Windows bug in Qt 6 where full screen windows having an OpenGL component (in this case, QWebEngineView) cannot display menus (popups, menus from the menu bar).

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Release Notes

Fixed

• Replaced whole word icon in find/replace due to Windows 10 not rendering Unicode characters used for old icon.
• Changed selection color for Plainstraction Dark theme to be brighter.
• Issues #772, #773, and #777: Added workaround for segmentation fault on GTK/Gnome 42 at startup.

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Release Notes

Fixed

• Issue #751: Fixed various sidebar and HTML preview size issues.
• Issue #724: App waits longer for Pandoc to finish reporting version on Windows before timing out.
• Issue #762: Fixed typo in Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Fixed editor margins on resize and on sidebar hide/show.
• Updated Russian translation.

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Note that for the portable 64-bit Windows build, Hunspell dictionaries must be downloaded separately to the dictionaries folder for spellchecking to be available. These can be found in various places online.

Release Notes

Fixed

• Issue #624: Text on line breaks is now correctly highlighted.
• Issue #708: Removing large portions of text no longer freezes the app.
• Issue #732: User-defined width of sidebar is now restored on load.
• Issue #738: App waits longer for Pandoc to start up on Windows before timing out.

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Note that for the portable 64-bit Windows build, Hunspell dictionaries must be downloaded separately to the dictionaries folder for spellchecking to be available. These can be found in various places online.

Release Notes

Fixed

• Untitled documents are no longer created upon opening or closing a new, empty document.
• Updated Chinese translation.
• Fix compilation issue with Ubuntu 18.04.

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Release Notes

Added

• Untitled documents are now autosaved to a draft folder when autosave is enabled.
• Added preferences button to open the draft folder location where untitled documents are autosaved.
• Added check box option to load last opened file on startup. If left unchecked, a new file will be opened on startup
• Added ability to word count indicator in status bar to display a different statistic. (The indicator is now a combo box.)
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.

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Release Notes

Fixed

• Issue #615: Unicode characters are properly displayed in the sidebar's Outline.
• Issue #619: Chinese and other languages with unicode characters now display properly in the HTML preview.

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Release Notes

Fixed

• Issue #598: Unicode characters no longer shifts syntax highlighting.
• Sidebar now properly hides itself after the Ctrl+J Outline command if it was
  previously hidden on initial launch.
• New Norwegian translation added.
• Spanish and Italian translations updated.

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Release Notes

Added

• cmark-gfm now replaces Sundown as the default Markdown processor for live previews an export.
• Syntax highlighting now utilizes cmark-gfm for better accuracy, especially with nested blocks.
• HUDs have been replaced with a side bar.
• Theming has been revamped to include more color options, but to exclude background images.
• CSS for HTML Preview now adaptively changes colors based on the current theme.
• Fonts can be customized for the HTML preview in the Preview Options dialog.
• Themes are now composed of two color schemes: a light mode and a dark mode.
• A new dark mode button in the status bar allows users to switch to the current theme's dark mode.
• Find and replace dialog has been revamped into a panel at the bottom of the application.
• Find and replace now supports highlighting all matches.
• Export dialog now uses native file selector dialog.
• Any two spaces at the end of a line are marked with dots by default.
• Selected text now reveals tabs and spaces.
• Source code has been refactored to follow KDE Frameworks and Qt coding style guides.
• ghostwriter now uses React to update only what changed in the live preview since the last keystroke, significantly reducing the live preview rendering time for large documents.

Fixed

• Issue #281: Removal of HUD windows will facilitate Alt+Tab switching.
• Issue #382, #539: IME selection window/IBUS candidate window should no longer be displaced.
• Issue #401: Single column tables are now highlighted.
• Issue #439: README file was updated to remove the installation of qt5-default on Debian-based systems.
• Issue #480: Menu bar is now accessible on relaunching ghostwriter in full screen mode.
• Issue #494: MathJax JavaScript syntax error that was being printed to the terminal and which prevented inline math from being displayed with the $ sign has been fixed.
• Issue #500: Preview Options dialog will now only open once.
• Issue #507: Multilevel lists are highlighted correctly in the editor with the switch to cmark-gfm handling the syntax highlighting.
• Issue #508: HUD windows have been replaced with a side bar for compatibility with Wayland.
• Issue #517: README.md has been updated with correct instructions location for building on MacOS.
• Issue #503: MathJax has now been included inside the application rather than fetching it externally.
• Issue #532: Insert spaces for tabs now works on startup.
• Issue #536: Added missing Markdown file extensions to file dialog filter when opening and saving files.

Removed

• Discount support was removed due to its conflicting executable name with MultiMarkdown.

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Fixes

• Issue #443: MathJax 3.0 is now built into the HTML preview. Note that this feature works best with Pandoc and requires an Internet connection. Other Markdown processors are not currently supported.
• Issue #447: Cursor is no longer shown when editor is not in focus.
• Issue #461: Fixed Cheat Sheet to have correct image example.
• Issue #471: HUD window styling is fixed for Qt 5.13.
• Issue #472: Fixed typing paused timers for session statistics and for hiding HUD windows.
• Discount is not listed as an available Markdown processor if MultiMarkdown is installed.
• New application translations are available for the following languages:
  • Arabic
  • Dutch

Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu and Derivatives

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Bionic (18.04)
• Eoan (19.10)
• Focal (20.04)

Note: It is recommended for users of Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to use the Flatpak package (detailed below), since QtWebEngine is unavailable on that version of Ubuntu, thus preventing supplying ghostwriter via the PPA.

Fedora

Fedora users can install ghostwriter from (Copr)[https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/] by opening a terminal and entering the following commands:

$ sudo dnf copr enable wereturtle/stable
$ sudo dnf install ghostwriter

Flatpak

ghostwriter is also available as a Flatpak package at Flathub.

Other

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

New Features

• HTML preview has been ported from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine (Chromium).

Fixes

• Issue #206: ghostwriter now has right-to-left language support.
• Issue #391: mathml option for pandoc is now used to render math equations for preview and export.
• Issue #411: Fixed crash when adding a new theme with no theme selected.
• Issue #412: Fixed export to PDF (wkhtmltopdf) failure with Pandoc.
• Issue #430: Fixed issue extra spaces appearing between <br/> tags in the HTML preview.
• Removed print support, since it has some odd bugs on some platforms, and most users would want to print their exported content anyway.
• Removed graphics fade effect for the bottom of the editor, as it is a risky feature that has caused bugs in the past and does not work on HiDPI screens.

Notes

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code.

Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Bionic (18.04)
• Disco (19.04)
• Eoan (19.10)

Note: It is recommended for users of Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to use the Flatpak package (detailed below), since QtWebEngine is unavailable on that version of Ubuntu, thus preventing supplying ghostwriter via the PPA.

ghostwriter is also available as a Flatpak package at Flathub.

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Issue #178: Only use --quiet option for Pandoc version 2 or greater.
• Fixed words-per-minute calculations to not be jumpy or overly high.
• Fixed issue where creating a new theme resulted in inconsistent selection and display of themes in the Theme Selection dialog.
• Fixed broken icon when running under Wayland.
• Fixed screenshots in appdata.
• Issue #385: Updated resource files license to CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notes

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code.

Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Bionic (18.04)
• Cosmic (18.10)

ghostwriter is also now available as a Flatpak package at Flathub. Please note that Flatpak has not yet reached version 1.0.0, and you may encounter some bugs. But if you are feeling brave and want to help make Flatpak better, please test the Flatpak version of ghostwriter and report any Flatpak-specific issues at the Flatpak issue tracker.

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Issue #369: Fixed segfault that occurred when changing the theme or interface style after opening the Preview Options dialog.

Notes

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code.

Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Bionic (18.04)
• Cosmic (18.10)

ghostwriter is also now available as a Flatpak package at Flathub. Please note that Flatpak has not yet reached version 1.0.0, and you may encounter some bugs. But if you are feeling brave and want to help make Flatpak better, please test the Flatpak version of ghostwriter and report any Flatpak-specific issues at the Flatpak issue tracker.

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Fixed issue where the --quiet option was mistakenly used with older Pandoc versions that did not support its use.
• Worked around Qt 5.11 qinstall bug where running qmake and make would fail when installing the translation files

Important Notice

I'm sorry to announce that I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows.

Unless...you volunteer! Please leave me a note at issue #367 if you are interested.

In the meantime, this current release (1.7.2) is not necessary to enjoy ghostwriter on Windows. Please see release 1.7.1 for a Windows version to download.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows editions come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Finally, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows edition comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Bionic (18.04)
• Cosmic (18.10)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Fixed regression in full screen mode where menu bar was not showing on mouse-over.
• Fixed regression where wrong theme was shown as selected on opening the Theme Selection dialog.
• Fixed issue #366 where warnings from Pandoc that were resulting in error dialogs on successful export.
• Fixed issue #292 where saving a document under Windows resulted in end-of-line characters being written as \n instead of \r\n.
• Fixed issue #360 where a graphical glitch under MacOS disabled the Theme Selection dialog's remove theme button.

Important Notice

I'm sorry to announce that very soon, I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows.

Unless...you volunteer! Please leave me a note at issue #367 if you are interested.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows editions come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Finally, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows edition comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Bionic (18.04)
• Cosmic (18.10)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

New Features

• Added light and dark built-in themes based on the community Ulysses III theme Plainstraction.
• @sbrl added a new Github Dark built-in stylesheet for use with the live preview.
• Live preview has been optimized to show the preview for typed characters immediately on smaller documents.
• Added ODT and EPUB 3 as export options for MultiMarkdown 6.
• Theme selection dialog now displays a grid instead of a list.

Fixes

• The menu bar is now hidden again in full screen mode when the user presses Alt+Tab to switch to a different application.
• Fixed issue #354 to disable hard line breaks for Pandoc's Github-flavored Markdown.
• Worked around issue in Qt 5.11 where changing the theme causes the app to crash.
• Worked around issue in Qt 5.10 where opening a new document with a document already loaded can cause the app to crash.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows editions come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Finally, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows edition comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Artful (17.10)
• Bionic (18.04)
• Cosmic (18.10)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Issue #315: Worked around slow load of QPrinter constructor in Fedora 27 by lazy loading the printer settings only when needed for printing or print preview rather than during application startup.
• Fixed line break tokenizing to not include paragraph breaks.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. At the time of this release, Qt 5.9 is still in beta. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use a FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows editions come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Moreover, this version removes print support from the HTML live preview, as future versions of ghostwriter will switch from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine, which does not support printing. Finally, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows edition comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Artful (17.10)
• Bionic (18.04)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that they may not have been updated to the latest version of ghostwriter, but may be in the future.

• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

Fixes

• Worked around an issue with Qt version 5.10 that causes the application to occasionally crash when reloading the currently opened document or when opening a new document due to the text cursor not being set to the beginning of the document before clearing the editor and loading the new document.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. At the time of this release, Qt 5.9 is still in beta. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use a FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows editions come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Moreover, this version removes print support from the HTML live preview, as future versions of ghostwriter will switch from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine, which does not support printing. Finally, as of version 1.6.0, the Windows edition comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Artful (17.10)
• Bionic (18.04)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that they may not have been updated to the latest version of ghostwriter, but may be in the future.

• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR

New Features

• HTML live preview is now in a split pane view rather than in a separate window.
• New options were added to hide HUD windows while typing, in full screen mode, or in live preview mode.
• A new button was added to the status bar and a new shortcut was added to the View menu in the menu bar to toggle hiding/showing the open HUDs.
• Github's cmark-gfm can now be detected and used as a Markdown processor.
• Block quotes and code blocks now have an inobtrusive background color to differentiate them.
• Buttons have been added to the status for existing features.
• HUD windows and scrollbars can be stylized to have square or rounded corners in the Settings, and are no longer theme dependent.
• New "Typewriter" focus mode was added by @hirschenberger.
• The style sheet and Markdown processor to use with the HTML live preview can now be selected in their own dialog box accessible both from the status bar at the bottom of the window and from the menu bar in the Settings menu.
• The "Copy HTML" button has been moved to the "status bar" at the bottom of the main window.
• The "Copy HTML" button / menu bar option can copy just the selected Markdown text as HTML (using the currently selected Markdown processor). It will still copy the entire Markdown text document and convert it to HTML in the system clipboard if no text is selected.
• Themes now support options for emphasis color and block text color. Note that emphasis color will also affect the color of headings, and block text color will affect the color of block quotes and code blocks.

Fixes

• Issue #302: ghostwriter will now look for default Qt translations on the standard Qt translations path (for standard buttons/text). These default Qt translations have been included in the Windows installer translations folder and portable Windows Zip, and will be loaded automatically based on the currently selected application language.
• Some tweaks have been made to the parsing/highlighting of emphasized text to handle nested emphasis cases better. As part of this effort, ghostwriter uses a Qt 5-specific regular expression class that is not available in Qt 4. As such, ghostwriter can no longer be built with Qt and must be built with Qt 5.
• Issue #272: Fixed issue with Focus mode where inserting matching characters around a selection was causing the application to crash.
• Issue #260: Added compatability with Pandoc version 2 and MultiMarkdown version 6.
• Fixed issue where HTML preview scrolls to the top if the new HTML from a modified document matches the old HTML, even if the markup used in the source document did change.
• Fixed issue where current word is not live spell checked if the user switches the text cursor to a different line.
• Fixed issue where prompt to reload a file that has been modified externally was being displayed multiple times per file change. This seems to have been triggered by some editors like Sublime Text that perform multiple file saves for a single file modification.
• Issue #228: Selected text can now be dragged and dropped to a different location within the editor.
• Fixed issue where if setext heading markup line is selected and deleted with the cursor position beginning at the end of the previous line, the heading is not removed from the Outline HUD.
• Fixed issue where Preview HTML menu item and button were not in sync to appear checked or unchecked.
• ghostwriter now clears the Outline HUD when loading or reloading a document to prevent a crash in case bad data is in the HUD.
• Fixed copy HTML issue to ensure Markdown text has proper formatting (i.e., greater than signs aren't converted to >).
• ghostwriter will now search in the mozilla-dicts installation location for dictionaries on OpenBSD.

Notes

Since version 1.4.0, if you are using the portable version of ghostwriter for Windows, please note that you no longer require the translations folder in your data folder. The translations folder has been moved up one folder, so you don't need to have your settings and themes mixed with an application dependency. When moving the contents of your old data folder to the new one, please delete the old data\translations folder.

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. At the time of this release, Qt 5.9 is still in beta. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use a FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code. Also, the Windows editions of version 1.6.0 come bundled with Qt 5.10.1. As such, you might enjoy using FreeType font rendering with ghostwriter, which looks superb under this Qt version. Please see the wiki page for a quick guide on how to enable this feature. Moreover, this version removes print support from the HTML live preview, as future versions of ghostwriter will switch from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine, which does not support printing. Finally, the Windows version of 1.6.0 comes bundled with annulen's QtWebKit for displaying the HTML preview. Special thanks goes out to this hard-working team for providing a QtWebKit build for newer Qt versions!

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Xenial (16.04)
• Artful (17.10)
• Bionic (18.04)

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that they may not have been updated to the latest version of ghostwriter, but may be in the future.

• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR