yWriter5 by Spacejock Software
WinXP or later, Mono 2.4 or later

Replace an installed version of yWriter5 with a Beta

This installer will replace your version of yWriter5 with Beta 5.1.4.7, dated 13/Jun/2010

Beta versions are provided to test new features and bug fixes, and should not be used on important data
(Don't want a beta version? The latest non-beta update is here)

• It doesn't matter whether you run the same installer more than once.
• Installing or upgrading yWriter5 will not delete or overwrite your data OR your settings.
• There is no need to uninstall yWriter5 before running this updater.
• See below for the list of changes

Update Instructions - Beta Version

Download and run yWriter5Beta.exe (1mb) to update your copy of yWriter5 to the latest beta version. (Please make sure yWriter5 isn't running while you're trying to update it!)

If that link fails, there's a secondary server with another copy of the same file: yWriter5Beta.exe

The update is also available in zip format: yWriter5Beta.zip (1.3mb)

Change Log:

5.1.4.7 Added Chapter Export/Import (within the same project only)
5.1.4.6 Numerous small bug fixes
5.1.4.5 Fixed 'Enter' not being recognised in the new RTF description fields
5.1.4.4 Added Scene title auto-renumbering
5.1.4.3 Added experimental 'Tiled Window' display for the editor. Open one or more editor windows then select 'Tiled' from the right-click menu.
5.1.4.2 Will now refuse to load .yw5.bak files. If you've been using a .bak file as your project you'll need to rename the extension.
5.1.4.1 Revised the scene card printing routine (See the scenes menu on the main screen)
5.1.4.0 Added a new F5 'replace problem words' feature.
5.1.3.9 Fixes a bug where scene content could attempt to save more than once at the same time
5.1.3.8 Added optional typewriter sounds to the editor window. (See settings menu.)
5.1.3.7 No longer loses project note titles after drag/dropping them. Can now add locations/items on the main screen lists.
5.1.3.5 Added a progress wordcount viewer, fixed a few bugs, now checks project folder is writeable before trying to save
5.1.3.2 Added an error recovery routine to avoid a problem when system fonts are missing
5.1.3.1 Fixed the chapter wordcount not updating after deleting scenes from it
5.1.3.1 New 'Clear formatting from all scenes' menu item (Scenes menu)
5.1.3.0 Changed all the version numbers on the dlls to ensure correct versions are in use
5.1.2.9 Minor fix for loading older versions of projects
5.1.2.8 Prevented yWriter saving the same project again while first save is in progress
5.1.2.7 Includes a 'Restore Autobackup' option (Tools - Backups menu)
5.1.2.6 Now offers to continue loading a project, even if one or more scene content files are missing.
5.1.2.5 Fix for possible project-load error in 5.1.2.4
5.1.2.4 Forces RTF files to be loaded & saved in plain text ascii format
5.1.2.3 Forces unicode when loading pre-5.1.2.3 projects. Saves as system default encoding.
5.1.2.2 Fixed date entry bug from 5.1.2.1 and changed the settings file to use the system default encoding
5.1.2.1 Edited the print routine so the html file uses the system default encoding (should fix special characters appearing as ?)
5.1.2.0 Edited the load/save routine to use the system unicode/character encoding format
5.1.1.9 Will now refuse to load a project if any of the scene content (rtf) files are missing.
5.1.1.8 No longer tries to save out your project on Windows hibernation.
5.1.1.7 Added more error-handling code to the project save routine
5.1.1.6 Warns if import file is open in another program during 'import work in progress'
5.1.1.5 Fixed a report width bug in the character list
5.1.1.4 Fixed a bug when auto-adding chars, locations, items to scenes
5.1.1.3 Added some more logging to the startup and project load routines. No other changes.
5.1.1.1 Fixed the spelling dictionary download & install
5.1.1.0 Fixed a problem with editing scenes larger than 64kb
5.1.0.9 Changed the tab control buttons on the main screen, misc tweaks.
5.1.0.8 A couple of fixes for the Work Schedule report
5.1.0.7 Now remembers the position of columns in listboxes, as well as the size.
5.1.0.7 Import work in progress now puts everything in your import file before the first 'Chapter X' heading into a chapter called 'Prologue'
5.1.0.6 Now includes Chinese and Hebrew translations for the User Interface.
5.1.0.5 Re-enabled highlighting of known items/characters/locations using their AKA strings
5.1.0.4 Now prints associated images in the character/item/location list reports
5.1.0.3 Changed all html reports to UTF-8 (unicode) format and included encoding for non-ascii
5.1.0.2 You can now print a list of scenes/chars/locations/items by selected tags
5.1.0.1 When printing the entire project you can now filter the report by scene tag
5.1.0.0 Change the warning query re losing changed notes/description to system modal
5.0.9.9 Prevents adding characters to scenes when there aren't any scenes in the scene list
5.0.9.8 Double-clicking words in the editor only opens the character sheet for exact matches
5.0.9.7 Fixed the date/time display in the Scene List report
5.0.9.6 Now includes a sample project (first 5 chapters of Hal Spacejock, with notes etc)
5.0.9.5 Export to RTF (without summaries) now fixed.
5.0.9.4 Fixed the Find box only appearing on first usage in the editor.
5.0.9.1 Improved Export Project to RTF (now optionally includes scene notes)
5.0.9.1 New menu item under Project: Export selected chapters to RTF
5.0.9.0 Put the UI font/size options back in the menu, sped up project saving

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