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ULYSSES 2.0.4

Besides some minor fixes, this version fixes a major data security issue for some users on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.

ULYSSES 2.0.3

Removed additional Edit menu
Crashes during opening Projects on 10.4
Fixed Portuguese, Italian localization
Pasting text to Console Mode Notes window no longer screws colors
Fixed a bug which causes a hang during a LaTeX export, if a Document ends with a footnote mark
Fixed a bug in the LaTeX exporter which export a footnote, even if the footnote mark is deleted by another
Layout glitches when changing display in Info Panel
Hang when clearing styles in an empty Document
Now only shows Trial expiry sheet once
Note: The Edit menu on pre-Snow Leopard (10.6) systems will show several greyed-out items, such as "Check Grammar". These are exclusive to Snow Leopard, so nothing to worry about.

ULYSSES 2.0.2

LOCALIZATION

Added Spanish Localization (by Victor M. Solano)
Added Norwegian Localization (by Tellef Kvifte)
Updated all Localizations

SNOW LEOPARD

Ulysses core no longer crashes after startup
Fixed style menu and shortcut issues
Added new substitution menus now common to Snow Leopard

FIXES

Norm page settings again work correctly during Export
Fixed issues with entering zero values in Exporters
Paragraph Style settings get saved correctly after being edited
Project autosave is more crash-resistant
Improved application of Inline Styles in the Editor
Better results in Search & Replace mode (now ignoring all control characters)
Replace tick column resizes correctly again
Improved creation of new Notes items when notepad out of focus
Pasting text to Console Mode Notes now retains the color
Spelling preferences in Console Mode notes are now taken from Console preferences
Console notes get hidden when switching to S&R or Export modes
Registration works again under Mac OS 10.4 Tiger

ULYSSES 2.0.1

Registration should now work under Mac OS 10.4 Tiger
Fixed crash when starting the Dutch localization for the first time
Fixed hang when pasting some special text to the Editor
Fixed bug in searching text using "begins with" or "ends with"
Fixed some translations of the registration dialog and other parts
Added ability to have newlines in paragraphs
Added little helper text to styles settings hinting how to edit
Minor fixes to links in the manual

ULYSSES 2.0

General:

Brand-new interface in all areas
Added Project Templates

Browser:

Added Document Trash as a view to keep removed, but not irreversibly deleted documents
Added Unfiled Filter to show documents that are not contained in a Collection
Browser search terms are highlighted in Browser and Previews
Browser Filter supports search for exact phrases or words
Words in search field can be grouped using "" to form a exact phrase
Search for words can match either all or any given word
Filtering for Status and Label now support "above" and "below"
New option to show document count of views
New option hide view when it's empty

Editor:

Added Bookmarks and Style-Jumpers to navigate faster in documents and pinpoint text passages
Added Selection Highlight
Find and Replace now works the whole document including Notes
Added shortcuts Cmd-+ and Cmd-- to increase/decrease font size
Added ability to turn off anti-aliasing

Console Mode:

New panel to view and edit Notes and Excerpts
Added shortcuts Cmd-+ and Cmd-- to increase/decrease font size
Added ability to turn off anti-aliasing
Large document title no longer cut off when switching between documents

Export:

Added support for superscript, subscript and strikethrough to RTF, PDF and Word export
Added more quotation marks, e.g. the Polish notation
Added an option to PDF export to number footnotes continuously
Added possibility to use numbered lists instead of unordered lists
In the PDF/RTF/DOC exporter, paragraph and character styles can now be renamed
Fixed some issues with formatting footnotes in the PDF export
In the LaTeX exporter, umlauts in filenames are now converted into ASCII characters

Search & Replace:

Added Style search for "None" and "Any"
Added option to save open documents before replacing so that all replaces can be done
Search occurrences in open documents can be double-clicked to be shown
Now searches in open documents wherever possible
Added deletion of text and Styles when replacing text or Styles
Common punctuation (such as .:,;!) is omitted from found items, reducing number of similar matches
Occurrences are now disabled if document was deleted
Ticks in cannot get lost any more

Preferences:

Preferences are completely reworked, making it easier to adjust and customize your projects
Preferences are now split into "Preferences" and "Fonts & Colors"
Creating and adjusting Styles & Markers is now much more intuitive
Greatly simplified theme selection and customization
Ability to import Preferences and Fonts & Colors from other projects
Preferences are now edited directly and take effect immediately
Documents are now saved permanently
Levels of backup are now selectable in the Preferences

Printing:

Printing now also prints the document name
Printing now also accounts line height settings

Documentation:

Added Screencasts and Hidden Gems of Ulysses as online resources
Updates in all areas of the documentation
Added new "Getting Started" section

Minor Changes:

New streamlined offline registration process with new serial number system
New startup panel
Added shortcut for the visibility of each interface section
Backups of projects only done when different from last project
Moved Backup location to AppSupport/Ulysses/Backups/
Timestamps won't be updated on locked documents anymore
New Update Framework (Sparkle)

ULYSSES 1.6

Localizations:

Added Hungarian localization (thanks to Gábor Tóth)
Added Portuguese localization (thanks to Tiago Antunes)
Fixed some minor issues with the German localization

General:

Modernized the look of the main window
Cleaned up the rest of the interface a bit
Added fullscreen support for main window
Reverting project now shows date of last backup
Added application preference to hide startup panel
Fullscreen windows resize on resolution change

Export:

All Exporter settings are now stored per project
Export and Print buttons are disabled if no documents are selected
Fixed a bug in the Latex exporter
Updated versions of all exporters

Browser:

Added Group Filter for hierarchical document organization
Added focus feature to display descendants of a single group only
Added button for larger previews
Added filter option to search for locked documents
Empty filters can be automatically hidden when empty
Added menu display option to show hidden filters
Filters can now optionally show the number of contained documents

Printing:

User can select layout style for printing
Added custom display preferences for printing
Reintroduced printing of document notes
Printout is no longer vertically centered
Enabled printing from Console mode

Editor:

Added shortcuts to add and remove notes (CMD-Alt- + / -)
Added ability to lock documents (small lock in lower right corner)
Added undo/redo support to excerpt view
Fixed a hangs / crashes on a few machines with Leopard
Fixed a crash with the paragraph bar
Fixed ugly display of invisible characters with some fonts
Fixed font problems on newly created excerpts

Preferences:

Added automatic style copying between modes

Minor Fixes:

"Open existing Project…" now starts in the folder of the last open project
Fixed a problem with the Spotlight importer
Fixed a crash with no tags in a inline style
Fixed reappearing note bug
Fixed some menu activation issues
Fixed a small label/status confusion bug after deletion

ULYSSES 1.5.1

Localizations:

Added French localization (Christophe Géradon)
Some placement fixes in the Swedish localization

Export:

Added preview of LaTeX Exporter (English only)

Improvements:

File Import now also allows multiple file selection
Improved spotlight importer

Various fixes and improvements:

Fixed a selection bug that could cause a hang
Fixed a counting bug that could cause a crash
Fixed some registration issues
Fixed some file opening issues
Fixed some autosave issues
Fixed some bugs in the fullscreen mode
Fixed a menu activation problem
Fixed some project conversion bug with fullscreen width

ULYSSES 1.5

Rebirth:

Complete overhaul of pretty much everything

Highlights:

New Editor with inline style formats
Unlimited levels, inline styles, markers
New Fullscreen Mode: Create new documents, switch between open documents, show document statistics
Multiple Notes
New Exporters
Synchronized level- and inline-tags between Editor, Fullscreen and Export
New preferences: Lots of defaults, tweaking options and interface control
New Control Panel: Customizable, collapsable
And
So
Much
More

Tons of new features:

Introducing Global Search & Replace
Introducing Filters and Collections
Introducing Text Trash
Introducing Project Notes
Introducing Project Export
Introducing Document "Get Info"
Introducing lots of other stuff, but it really is too much to list

System Requirements:

Ulysses 1.5 will ONLY run on Mac OS X 10.4 or newer. Older oerating systems are no longer supported. If you want to use Ulysses on Mac OS X 10.3, you will need to continue using version 1.2.x

ULYSSES 1.2.2

Universal Binary:

Ulysses is now a so-called "Universal Binary". As such, it runs natively on all Intel-based Macs
This also fixes the dreaded "unregistered" bug plaguing users of said systems

Export:

New "Formatted Text" Export Plug-In
Updated "Plain Text" Export Plug-In

Localizations:

Fixed some errors here and there

Documentation:

Updated the docs to reflect latest changes
Added some Tips - Services

Enhancements and bug fixes:

Several optimizations in various places (duh)
Probably fixed long standing "Saving location"-dialog bug
Probably fixed "Find in preview" bug
(Both problems occured rather randomly, and never were truly reproducable. However, latest beta-tests suggest that they're gone. It may well be that this release fixes other bugs as well, which appeared only on, in or during certain configurations, situations, or moon phases.)

ULYSSES 1.2.1

New:

Brand-new plain text exporter
Ability to drag'n'drop attachments out of notes

Enhancements:

Added level shortcuts to fullscreen mode

Bug fixes:

When exiting from an empty fullscreen, the document would
become unusable
When adding a new status, its name would stay at "New" no
matter what
German About-Box showed wrong product page URL
The usual clean-up here and there

This version rolls in the previous 1.2r2 update, which fixed problems with the Spotlight plug-in not activating, internet connection during application launch, redraw glitches in various areas, and some localization issues

ULYSSES 1.2

New:

Added Spotlight Importer for Mac OS X Tiger
Spotlight plug-in will index titles, main texts, notes, open and closed documents
All-new text system
Fullscreen mode supports typewriter scrolling
Added line spacing preference for fullscreen mode
Completely new SplitViews based on Rainer Brockerhoff's RBSplitView
Browser/preview and notes/control panel can be hidden to provide more screen real estate for the editor
Introduces new ExportFramework adding support for future exporters

Enhancements:

Much faster editor and fullscreen due to new text system
New, empty documents get closed when opening a saved one
Copy & paste from text to notes retains notes' font presets
Changed some interface texts to be more precise
Speeded up editor preview
Editor and notes now have completely independent undo behaviour

Fixes:

Font loading improved
Fixed some application startup issues
Fixed some localization issues
Fixed "copy nil" bug: You could perform a copy operation on an empty selection, resulting in an empty clipboard
SplitViews now retain all positions for good
Fixed some issues with typewriter scrolling when having "smooth scrolling" activated in system prefs
Fixed some smaller bugs here and there

Other changes:

Removed "Font Smoothing" preference from Interface/Fullscreen due to space issues (will be re-included in the future)

ULYSSES 1.1.1

Shortcuts:

Switching between tabs via Command-Option-Left/Right Arrow
Switching between Editor and Notes via Command-Option-Up Arrow
As a matter of fact, Command-Option-Up Arrow switches to the Editor *everytime* you're someplace else (Preview panes, for example)
Cycling from Editor to Notes, Title, second Editor and back to the Editor via Command-Option-Down Arrow
Command-Option-F switches to the search field and selects the search string, if present
Command-Option-S will save all open documents

Fullscreen:

Added a retro-cool scrollbar which is only visible when hovering over it with the mouse (need to find it first, though, hehe)
Command-Shift-F now also ends Fullscreen mode

Editor:

Added option to show invisible characters
Levels can be assigned to multiple paragraphs at once
Fixed several redraw glitches
Tried to really speed up the editor and... succeeded (the larger a project, the longer a text, the more noticeable the speed-up; large projects/text should see a dramatic improvement)
Added a "Level"- and "Marker" menu-item to the context menus
Implemented right-to-left writing (and added an option for default writing direction in the process)

Notes:

Large pictures placed into the notes pane now get resized to completely fit in

Localizations:

Added Russian (Michael Krekin)
Added Dutch (Mark Beekhuis)
Added Portuguese (Ricardo Lamego)
Fixed some out-of-sync stuff with localized interfaces here and there

Various fixes and improvements:

Corrected a problem with markers in general and Fullscreen mode in particular
Solved a problem with the search, where it would not return results under certain circumstances (fixes the "special characters and carriage returns on top" bug)
Corrected problems with the counter in the paragraph bar
Corrected several redraw glitches in the paragraph bar
Made the paragraph bar scrollwheel aware, so that it now scrolls the corresponding editor
Corrected some issues with the various split-views (some issues remain, though)
Fixed some "Revert to last version" issues
Fixed a bug for users of Sidetrack
Fixed crash with deactivated fonts
Export dialog should now remember more (if not all, who knows?) settings
Improved the time stamp sheet (now supports localized formats)
Added "Clear all" menu item for recent projects
Added an import menu command
Cleaned up the code from any 10.2 leftover, so Ulysses is now 10.3-only sourcewise. Fixed and optimized a thing here and there. Layed several foundations for things to come

Known problem:

The main editor's scrollbar may not redraw properly when resizing certain parts of the interface. As of today, we have a 6 month record of Apple's "code level support" team simply ignoring our requests or putting us on hold. Me managed to press the bug back to being purely cosmetic, and now the scrollbar returns upon any subsequent action such as typing. Still sucks, though, as it is a manifestation of a very severe problem with TextViews in general, which Apple seems to simply ignore

ULYSSES 1.1

New features:

New export plug-in: LaTeX
Third level in the editor (Command-3)
Markers in the editor (Command-4, -5)
Time stamp in the control panel
Manual sorting in the browser
Sorting by time stamp in the browser
Counting of selected documents in the browser
Drag and drop feedback
Customizable user interface using themes (replaces the Fonts options and extends them dramatically)
modify all background colors
modify all font colors
allmost every type face and size can be selected (browser uses system fonts and sizes, paragraph bar uses editor type face)
Fullscreen mode allows for two widths: 600px and "full"
modifications can be saved as themes and may be exported and imported
Start up panel can be turned off in the preferences
Documents dropped into the note pad will display a floating info-box when hovering over them
Projects can now be merged into the current project
Added import of HTML, DOC and HTML files (based on system functionality, so some limitations exists)
Printing from the export dialog (only plain text and formatted text) -- allows for creation of PDFs

New localizations:

Japanese (Taznory Shibata)
Italian (Angela Langone & Daniele Paganini)
French (Alexandre Kaiser)
Spanish (Dr. Marisa Antonaya)

Changes:

Multiple words in the search field are no longer being treated as a phrase
Appearance and arrangement of the buttons below the statistics field has been optimized
The RTF exporter now includes an option to save to Microsoft Word .doc format
Exporters were optimized to make use of the new features
Preferences dialog got an overhaul
Added option to have the editor selection counted
Added preference for "Automatically check for updates" (alongside check box in the update panel itself)
Temporarily removed portuguese localization
Help updated for 1.1

Enhancements:

Start up panel now includes a list of recently used projects
Completely redone the registration mechanism
Sorting in the browser resembles Finder ("natural sorting")
Optimized search field
Optimized "Typewriter Scrolling"
Every split-view will now be remembered
Preferences can now be set back to default values
Entries in the context menus now honor text fields (e.g., format menu will only pop up in the notes)
Optimized certain menus (some menu items were deactivated, but remained black)
Menu entries for "New" and "Open project" now work while the start up panel is being displayed
Fullscreen modus will be left if hiding or switching out of Ulysses
Exporter allows for multiple selection and rearrangement of documents
Exporter allows to select and deselect all documents
Rewrote backup system (now three backups, among other things)
New updater

Bug fixes:

When opening a project, the term which was entered in the search field upon save will now be displayedLabel and status pop ups will now jump to the last selection when cancelling out of the "Modify..." sheet
Fixed some optical bugs in the paragraph bar
Fixed potential crash when a used font became unavailable to the system
Trial could not be activated on some machines

General:

Optimizations to the code, and various enhancements to several areas of the application not visible to the user

ULYSSES 1.0.3

New features:

Tabs can be sorted via drag and drop
Selection feedback (characters, words, lines)
Shortcuts for levels were added (Command-1, -2, -0)
Time-based automatic saving of projects
Empty lines can now be excluded from counting

Feature enhancements:

Sorting by labels in the browser now sorts according to your arrangement of labels in the pop-up

Bug fixes:

A rare error while closing a project has been resolved
Switching to fullscreen mode will no longer set the status of a document to unsaved if the document has not been edited
Errors during registration should be resolved
An error with Windows encoding using the plain text export plug-in has been resolved

Bug fixes (specific to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther):

Automatic updating is now working again
Under certain circumstances, registration data could get corrupted -- resolved
Some irregularities with the user interfaces have been fixed

Known problem with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther:

The format menu has options while being in the editor; choosing one of them doesn't affect anything

ULYSSES 1.0.2

New features

added a full-screen editing mode (Command-Shift-F)
tabs can now open left or right
new documents can now be created left or right
added option to have the statistics panel update after a user-specified time
the editor's split-view handle now recognizes double-clicks
added portuguese localization (thanks to Bruno Monteiro)
added panel during opening of projects

Bug fixes

registration: now allowing umlauts and special characters
fixed the bug where some users had to register every time the app started
now throwing up alerts when unable to save files
preview gets updated upon saves
statistics panel gets updated upon saves
state of project (black dot in window's close button) gets update upon saves
fixed some irritating selections in the editor
fixed a potential crash with auto-update

Changes and enhancements

added shortcut to "Preferences..." (Command-,)
peferences are now tab-based (preparing for future updates)
export now saves all settings, including previously selected documents
improved speed and reliability of document saves
saving in demo-mode does no longer throw up dialogs (you can't save anyway)

General:

Optimized the code here and there to gain more speed and to further improve stability

ULYSSES 1.0.1

New features

Word count in the statistics panel
Optional automatic updating of the statistics panel
Close button in the main window shows an unsaved state with a black dot

Enhancements

Application launches faster
Multi-lingual problems should be fixed
Order of tabs is saved
Paragraph counter uses a fixed font size
Registration: Spaces in names are now allowed
Application no longer crashes on double-clicking projects in the Finder

ULYSSES 1.0

Initial release