## Improvements: - Improvements when reading and writing Textbundle and Textpack files - Layout of the TextButler interface adapted to the new window scheme of macOS 26 - Minor adjustments to the TextButler settings to improve functionality under macOS Tahoe

## New: - MarkMyWords now adopts the new window design in macOS 26 - New toolbar icons for macOS 15 and macOS 26 that match the system’s look & feel ## Improvements: - Improved the command for the action “Move cursor to end of paragraph with line break” - Fixed several layout inaccuracies in the sidebar and its elements - TextButler: when creating a new recipe in the settings, it is now automatically selected - TextButler – new ingredients: Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Basic HTML Entity Encoding and Decoding ## Fixes: - Fixed an issue where inserting markup via shortcut without selected text caused Undo to not fully restore the previous state - Fixed an issue with showing/hiding the format bar - Minor UI adjustments to correctly align certain elements under specific display configurations - Fixed an issue when importing CSV files for generating MultiMarkdown tables when no table alignment was provided - Fixed an issue when importing CSV files for generating MultiMarkdown tables where the presence of a header separator and missing aligners caused improperly aligned formatting ## Internal Markup Parser: ### Smark: - Improved handling of bold, underline, and strikethrough markups

## Changes: - New app icon to comply with the macOS26 app icon shape ## Improvements: - Various internal adjustments and improvements to enhance compatibility with newer macOS versions - Minor adjustments when exporting to PDF format (macOS 11 or newer) to avoid a blank first page and improve line spacing in text - Improvement to the footnote tool so that the corresponding changes are visible in the preview after insertion - Improvements when inserting markups. Markups for links and images that work with multiple elements now analyze the selected text in detail and automatically place the selected text in the appropriate area of the markup - Completely redesigned internal storage logic for QuickSave directories, eliminating some existing issues when working with them ## Removed: - Display of external links in the individual results of the text check for articles that explain the respective error in more detail ## Internal Markup Parser ### MultiMarkdown: * Meta variable case sensitivity is now ignored * Improvements to TOC generation, which is now enclosed by the corresponding div tag ### MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra: * Improvements in recognizing footnotes at the end of the text ### Markdown, MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra: * Minor improvements in handling paragraphs * Improved underscore markups, which now require a leading and trailing space * Escaping of opening and closing square brackets is now possible ### Smark: * Various optimizations in Table of Contents generation

## New: - TextButler System. TextButler allows you to compile your own sets of text transformations that can be applied to selected text or text pasted from the clipboard. The following actions are available: - Trimming spaces and custom-defined characters in a variety of ways - Removing empty lines - Replacing and removing words - Inserting into a template - Searching and replacing using regular expressions - Actions can also be combined in recipes and adapted for different use cases. - TextButler can be managed in the settings in the TextButler section - In the editor, TextButler can be applied using the following menu items or the corresponding keyboard shortcuts - Edit - Insert with TextButler - Edit - Apply TextButler to selection - Footnote tool for MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra. This tool helps you quickly create footnotes. It can be accessed via the menu entry Markup - Footnote, the footnote button in the content editing toolbar, or by pressing F1 on the keyboard (fn + F1 if system control functions are enabled). After entering the footnote text, the original markup is automatically inserted at the current cursor position, and the footnote text is added to the end of the document. ## Improvements: - Improved detection and handling of files in shared Quicksave folders regarding the display of images in the preview. ## Bug Fixes: - Fixed an issue with syntax highlighting and Illusion format for Markdown, MarkdownExtra, and MultiMarkdown for bold and italic elements, which could under certain circumstances lead to incorrect rendering. - Added missing detection of image markup in Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown, and Smark for syntax highlighting. ## Internal Markup Parser ### MultiMarkdown: - Support for metadata syntax - Metadata area is now recognized and no longer appears in the preview - Metadata is integrated into the HTML header - Support for the special attributes Title, Language, CSS, HTML Header, HTML Footer, MMD Header, and MMD Footer - Support for metadata variables ([%meta_tag_name]) ### MultiMarkdown & MarkdownExtra: - Parser for definition lists completely rewritten to fix some bugs and issues in the previous implementation - Fixes a bug with footnotes: when multiple source references pointed to the same footnote, assignment errors occurred

## New: - new option for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra: Magic Double Space. This feature adds two spaces to the end of the last line when a line break occurs. If there are two line breaks, the two spaces of the last line will be removed again - Markers in texts that are inserted via copy&paste: The first marker is automatically selected after pasting - new trick for importing CSV tables in MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra. If the second line contains alignment elements(:--- , :---:, ---:), MarkMyWords recognizes them and adjusts the imported table accordingly ## Improvements: - improved the template save panel. In addition, the user interface of the panel has been revised - Template selection panel is updated after adding a new template even when documents are open - user interface of the Template Insert panel has been revised - improvement when inserting text clips with markers. The selection marker {*} is now converted correctly - check text area, highlighting an error by clicking on the corresponding entry, it is now possible to click again to trigger the highlighting again - improved copy and paste behavior of the text editor with activated option “Paste formatted”. Source code and plain text copied from web browsers are now better recognized - improvements to the display of the individual elements in the sidebar for the text clips area - improved the behavior of the editor when using the move-cursor keyboard shortcuts - minor adjustments to the Markup templates for image and link for the Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown languages. Fields two and three are now preset with markers, which allows faster editing of the respective markups ## Updated: - updated some pages in the help ## Bug fixes: - fixes a display error in the settings for the editor - fixes a bug in Distraction-Free mode that caused fonts (color, size, style) to be set incorrectly under certain settings - fixes a problem with the editor when syntax coloring is active, the text is longer than the actual text field and other certain settings are present, which caused the editor to behave strangely when scrolling - fixes a bug with the style display dotted and dashed in the text check - fixes an inaccuracy in the counting of characters in the formatted text - text check error coloring and syntax coloring no longer get in each other's way - fixes a bug with cursor customization in certain text type, size and cursor settings that caused the cursor to not have the desired appearance - fixes an error when setting the options for line numbering in the preferences - fixes a bug with tab actions (text clips) that contain markers that markers are not resolved correctly - fixes a bug that prevented RTFD files from being able to be selectable in the import selection window under certain circumstances - fixes a bug when importing RTFD documents with images in Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown documents - fixes a bug when importing text documents in which headline markup was also provided with bold markup - fixes a bug in conjunction with Markers in the markup languages Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown with the italic markup ## Internal Markup Parser: - improved handling of commented out text in Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown

## New: - select marker via Tab key, if the insertion point is in a line containing a marker, pressing the Tab key is now sufficient to select it - new settings option for visual highlighting of double spaces at the end of a line (can be set under Settings > Editor > Highlighting) - the import function can now also be used to insert plain text files into existing documents ## Improvements: - import from clipboard refined, fewer unnecessary spaces - Illusion Format / Syntax Highlighting Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown improved recognition of formatted links - added supporting error messages and signal images in the default settings for the file extensions for the respective Markup languages - improvements when setting the background color of the text field ## Bug fixes: - fixes a bug in the text editor that led to display errors under certain circumstances - Illusion Format Smark: fixes a bug in the display of named links ## Other: - many internal changes and adjustments to improve compatibility with newer macOS versions - various internal optimizations - various areas of the help updated and expanded ## Internal Markup Parser: Markdown, MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra: - improved handling of HTML comments - improved handling of headings, spaces and tab characters following the closing # are now handled correctly - improved timing when handling escaped chars, so that fewer incorrect conversions occur - minor adjustments when creating the paragraph tag MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra: - improved recognition of tables at the end of a text, the obligatory empty line at the end of a table is no longer mandatory - improved display of captions in tables, which now correspond to what the original MultiMarkdown generates - captions with an additional label are now supported MultiMarkdown: - masked line breaks (escaped newline) are now supported, a \ at the end of a line generates a br tag Smark: - images with file extension jpeg are now recognized - improvements for correct conversion of caption, tablehead and tablefoot markup - Tablebody markup implemented - HTML entities conversion removed

# Changes: - Marker selection keyboard shortcuts changed # Improvements: - improved behavior of Illusion Format under certain circumstances when moving the cursor with the arrow keys - import of documents, if images can be imported, they are added to the assets (the corresponding document must already be saved) - improved import of documents and insertions from the clipboard regarding superfluous spaces # Bug fixes: - Fixes a bug with Textbundle files with the markup language MarkdownExtra # Syntax highlighting: - Smark: Link detection improved if the link is directly followed by a line break - Smark: Comment highlight is now recognized correctly # Internal markup parser: - Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown: improved recognition for correct bold and inverse in both variants - Smark: improved link recognition - Smark: various minor internal improvements

# New: - Illusion Format: This feature for the main editor can be activated in the MarkMyWords preferences under Editor > Highlight. This feature causes the most important and most frequently used markups to be displayed directly in the editor. This feature is available for all markup languages except HTML. Comprehensive information on this feature can be found in the MarkMyWords help. - Syntax highlighting: Syntax highlighting has been completely reworked and replaces the old system. In addition to improved and extended recognition of markups, the new highlighting also works better with the set editor options so that the layout no longer gets out of shape. # Bug fixes: - Fixes a potential crash of the app when running MultiMarkdown if certain conditions are met - Fixes a bug that caused MarkMyWords to crash when certain preference combinations related to line numbering were used - Addresses a display error in the editor in newer macOS versions that causes “ghost text” to appear at the bottom under certain conditions # Internal markup parser Textile: - Improved recognition of bold (both types), italic (both types), underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript markup and their encapsulated variants - Styles in {} e.g. in spans and other elements are now recognized and converted MultiMarkdown: - Support for superscript and subscript text - Minor adjustment of the display order for footnotes and bibliography so that they are consistent with the original MultiMarkdown - Bibliography markup conversion completely rewritten to better match the original MultiMarkdown BBCode: - Extended support for uppercase tags - Other minor internal improvements Smark: - Small font markup implemented - Various internal adjustments and improvements - Fixes minor conversion errors of thead and tfoot with styles - Fixes a bug in list detection where certain text sequences were incorrectly recognized as a list

# Bug fixes: - addresses a bug that causes text artifacts to appear in the text field under certain circumstances with customized settings

## New: - the text of simple PDF files can now also be imported via the Import file option. PDFs with a non-linear layout may result in text shifts - new output format for extensions: Pasteboard. The result of the extension will be added to the pasteboard - markup formatting can now be applied to several selections in the text at the same time. To select several areas in the text at once, the CMD key must be held down while using the mouse to select the passages to be formatted - new preference option for the text editor: if text from web pages is inserted into the text field via drag'n drop or copy/paste, a markup conversion can be performed automatically. This option can be activated in the preferences under Editor ## Improvements: - improves the correct display of line numbering - improved behavior for file name changes in the File Navigator panel - improved the behavior when creating and closing indented alphanumeric lists - if no asset is selected in the asset pane and the "Show in Finder" action is activated, the corresponding directory is now displayed if one exists - various internal improvements, optimizations and updates ## Updated: - help for extensions extended ## Bug fixes: - fixes minor bugs with the display of assets in text and adding assets via drag'n drop when images contain spaces in the name - fixes a bug that caused the asset not to be added when adding assets to an entry under certain circumstances

# New: - new option for the text editor to perform a double line break after headings. This function can be activated in the MarkMyWords preferences under Typography - readability rating: for English and German texts, the readability rating of the current text can be viewed in the info pane - Javascript extensions: option to include additional Javascript files in the respective extensions, e.g. function libraries # Improvements: - improvement of the date insert function in conjunction with undo action - improved sentence counting of the text statistics in the info pane - improved word counting of the text statistics in the info pane - improved markup removal action, most special characters are retained in their original form - improved behavior when canceling the insertion of text clips under certain circumstances - various internal optimizations, improvements and updates # Internal markup parser:
## MultiMarkdown new: - support for abbreviations (acronyms) [MMD v6 syntax]

# Note: MarkMyWords requires at least macOS 10.13 or newer as of this version # New: - Javascript extensions: Extensions can now also be written in Javascript to extend the functionality of MarkMyWords. Details on extensions for MarkMyWords can be found in the MarkMyWords help section under "Extensions". In addition to developer documentation, you will also find various tips for setting up extensions. - Tab Action Convert numbers into words. Write a number, e.g. 111 and press the Tab key to convert the number to "one hundred eleven". - Services menu item: This function can be used to send selected text from any application to MarkMyWords, which opens the selected text in a new document. More details and helpful tips on how to use this function can be found in the MarkMyWords Help under "Service-Feature". - New function for Check Text-Feature: Learn errors. Errors can now be saved so that they are automatically corrected during future text checks. # Improvements: - Improved behavior of the marker selection function - Minor adjustments and improvements when importing documents to achieve a better import result - Improvements when setting up your own PHP interpreter - PHP extensions can now also be used when the internal markup interpreter is used for text conversion - Various internal modernizations # Bug fixes: - fixes a bug that caused MarkMyWords to crash when closing documents with a color label set - fixes a bug in the display of the text editor that led to unwanted effects at the bottom of the text field in newer versions of macOS # Changes: - the keyboard shortcuts for Marker selection had to be changed, as the previous ones are occupied by the system in newer macOS versions - Extension system: in newer versions of macOS (12 or higher), the Python language is no longer available for selection. For the Perl and Ruby languages a corresponding installation must be available on the system # Markup parser: ## Smark bug fixes: - fixes a bug in the transformation of span, div, para and code tags with additional attributes if these markers are followed by a line break - fixes a bug in the conversion of lists that contain sublists ## MultiMarkdown bug fixes: - when converting the {{TOC}} markup, incorrect compilations occurred under certain circumstances ## Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown bug fixes: - fixes a bug in the handling of code blocks where markup was converted within the code block

**New:** - new, additional option for the internal markup parser to create HTML5 compliant markup tags on empty elements (img, br, hr) **Improvements:** - preferences for setting up the MultiMarkdown tool adapted to meet the new requirements - minor internal adjustments **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug with the LanguageTool.org text check, if there was an & character in the text, only the text up to this character was checked - fixes a bug for some languages when automatically generating markup when dragging images from the attachment bar into the text **Internal Markup Parser** **Improvements:** ++Textile++: - improvements in the handling of attributes for block elements ++MultiMarkdown++: - adjusted display for footnotes, they are now displayed superscripted and without brackets - adjusted display for citations, which correspond to the current MultiMarkdown representation **Bud fixes:** ++MultiMarkdown++: - fixes a bug when using the citation markup, which causes the app to crash under certain circumstances ++Textile++: - fixes a bug when using markup attributes that causes the app to crash under certain circumstances - fixes a bug with the conversion of citation markup that led to incorrect display under certain conditions

**New:** - new system for formatted printing and exporting as PDF, including corresponding presets, implemented (requires macOS 11.0 or newer) **Improvements:** - improved import of text documents, so that less excess spaces and blank lines are generated - improved appearance behavior of the CriticMarkup popover feature under certain circumstances - improvements in text statistics - improvement in behavior when using text clips when selection is canceled by ESC key **Bug Fixes:** - fixes a bug when rendering a document in an external browser that caused embedded images not to be displayed

**New:** - MarkMyWords now supports the spelling and grammar checker of LanguageTool.org. This can be activated and used via the ribbon bar in the preview area - new CriticMarkup inline tool for convenient marking of selected text. Activation via the menu option Markup > Inline CriticMarkup (⌃P) **Bug fixes:** - fixed a bug in the CSS selection menu that opened the wrong window in the preferences when selecting the "Add CSS Style" element **General improvements:** - MultiMarkdown, when a custom parser should be activated, the internal parser, when activated, caused a conflict. So, instead of using the custom parser, the internal parser was used. For MultiMarkdown it is now the case that the custom parser always has always priority over the other options **MultiMarkdown improvements**: - {{TOC}} markup for generating a table of contents is now supported, as well the {{TOC:2-3}} and {{TOC:3}} extended variants **Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown enhancements**: - heading tags with additional attributes are no longer enclosed by p tags **Textile improvements**: - additional markup for IDs and classes can now also be provided to inline markup - CAPS detection improved, possible CAPS within HTML tags (attributes) are no longer incorrectly converted - table. markup is now also supported - improved processing of attributes for block markup - fixes a bug with the padding-right attribute in block markup **Smark bug fixes**: - fixes a problem where under certain circumstances some special elements are stripped out and do not give a correct result - fixes a problem with the code tag that caused it not to render properly

**New:** - new option in Preferences under Typography to enable/disable automatic continuation of alphanumeric lists - new option in Appearance Preferences to set a custom window color - new option in Appearance Preferences to assign a different color to button images - new option in the Preferences for the Distraction Free Mode, with which scrolling can also be triggered outside the actual text field **Improvements:** - improved unindent behavior by the delete key in unordered lists (* -) - redesigned layout for the Typography Preferences - redesigned layout for the Editor Preferences - redesigned layout for the Distraction Free Mode Preferences - some minor layout improvements for the document window - several internal improvements and adjustments - the internal Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown Parser can now also escape the pipe character (|) with \| - the internal MultiMarkdown parser can convert the [Caption element] for tables at the end of a table *Bug fixes:* - fixes an error in the automatic alpha list creation of the editor, caused by certain character combinations which resulted in inability to continue typing - resolves an error in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, where in certain tables formats all elements were formatted as headers - fixes a bug in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, where an additional empty column is incorrectly added for certain tables - fixes a bug in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, with colspan-formatting

**Improvements:** - JSON info file of existing Textbundle documents remain intact after changes and is no longer overwritten by a new info.json - improved behavior of HTML preview after inserting text via copy/paste - improvements when adding assets via drag'n drop - improvements for Highlight Mode in Distraction Free Mode - internal Textile parser: attributes can now be added to caption, head and foot elements for tables **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug that could cause the app to crash when deleting assets - fixes a bug in the internal markup parser for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra that can cause MarkMyWords to hang or to stop displaying formatted output when using tab characters in numbered lists - internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that prevented headings from being written across multiple lines - internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that caused br-tags to be generated in table structures under certain circumstances - internal Textile parser: fixes an error when converting tables that could cause the conversion to abort - internal Smark parser: fixes an issue with anchor links - fixes a bug in distraction-free mode that prevented writing when highlighting was enabled and no custom font color was set

**New:** - new feature that simplifies the correction of misspelled words and allows suggested corrections via keyboard shortcuts. This function can be activated in the preferences under the item Typography. More details about this function can be found in the help - new highlight mode in Distraction Free Mode that highlights the current line you are typing on against the rest of the text. Adjustable via Distraction Free Mode presets. **Improvements:** - if a Textbundle-file contains other elements than the usual text file, the info.json and the assets folder, these elements are preserved - improved behavior of MarkMyWords handling the access of Quicksave folder - animated sidebar collapse and expand and start and end of Distraction Free Mode. If you don't want animations, you can turn them off in the MarkMyWords preferences under "Reduce Interface Animations" **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug for the internal Textile parser that can cause the application to crash - fixes a bug when opening Textbundle-files where, under certain circumstances, the Markup language specified in the json file is not set

**New:** - new internal markup interpreter with improvements for all Markup languages ​​supported by MarkMyWords - new preference options in the Typography section to adjust the system-wide text settings for "Automatically replace two spaces with periods" and "Automatically capitalize words after a period" in MarkMyWords **Improvements:** - some cosmetic adjustments in the preferences - enabling and disabling syntax coloring in the preferences now shows immediate effect in the editor - updated and improved syntax coloring for Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown, BBCode, Smark. To use the updated coloring-files, the syntax coloring must be reset in the preferences **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug in preferences navigation that could lead to an internal error - fixes a bug in the display of the window title in the preferences - Textile: fixes incorrect link markup template generated by the shortcut-command

## 2.3.1 **Improvements:** - when exporting documents the currently selected style will be used for the exported document ## 2.3.0 **New:** - redesigned distraction-free mode. The settings for this mode can now all be made directly in this mode. In addition, many other settings have been added for this mode in order to be able to customize it to your own requirements **Improvements:** - improvements in the automatic text scrolling function, which now no longer scrolls the beginning of a text if it is already longer, but only when the cursor is in the vertical center of the text field - Various minor adjustments to the user interface

**New:** - redesigned distraction-free mode. The settings for this mode can now all be made directly in this mode. In addition, many other settings have been added for this mode in order to be able to customize it to your own requirements **Improvements:** - improvements in the automatic text scrolling function, which now no longer scrolls the beginning of a text if it is already longer, but only when the cursor is in the vertical center of the text field - Various minor adjustments to the user interface

**New:** - new default setting for using your own PHP interpreter - keyboard shortcut to change the panes in the sidebar (CTRL+Tab) **Updated:** - updated converter for Wikitext, Smark, BBCode, MarkdownExtra to work with PHP version 8 - updated Markdown converter **Improvements:** - minor improvements in the navigation in the preferences **Bug fixes:** - Swift markup interpreter can be activated in macOS Big Sur or later in the preferences

**New:** - MarkMyWords now natively supports Apple Silicon-processors - adjustable toolbar style in macOS Big Sur **Improvements:** - various internal adjustments and updates - some user interface changes for macOS Big Sur - improved behavior when opening documents with self-defined file extensions (Preferences > Markup > File Extensions) **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug in the text statistics

MarkMyWords is taking a huge step forward! Many elements of the user interface have been redesigned and thus modernized, but the familiar MarkMyWords feeling has been retained. The most notable new feature is the sidebar, which is available in every document. In addition to quick access to other documents, the sidebar provides access to the important details of the respective document. With the new formatting-bar, the most used formatting can be inserted with the mouse easily now. Another big feature is the Textclips-system that replaces the previous One-Click-System. With Textclips, pre-made texts can be inserted into documents easily. Textclips are available in every document and can be arranged in groups so that a collection of Textclips can be created for each topic. In addition to inserting with a simple click in the sidebar, Textclips can be inserted via the word-completion-system as well by using predefined keywords with an additional tab-key-stroke. A lot has also happened internally in MarkMyWords. Almost all areas of MarkMyWords have been revised, legacy elements have been removed and existing components have been replaced by newer ones.

New, alternative markup conversion engine, developed in the Swift programming language, implemented. The new engine can be activated via the Preferences > Markups > Use the internal Swift version of the Markup Converter (Beta version: In continuous development) **New:** - import CSV Table now with support for tsv files (Tab Separated Values) - advanced text statistics for each document can be displayed by clicking on the word/character counter - new help page system implemented and help pages revised **Updated:** - Smark parser updated - Textile parser updated **Improvements:** - clipped text in the German user interface fixed - various small adjustments made to the user interface in the preferences - minor improvements and adjustments in the attachment system - minor adjustments for saving-behavior - in the File Browser when searching, both file name and file content will be queried for the search term - various code cleanups - some adjustments to the main menu, "Item" tools removed, the items for startup window and file browser are now under "Window" and the One-Click Style Editor under "Format", duplicate items removed - comment menu command for Smark is now correctly being applied to text blocks - improved preview behavior for empty documents - access to Base URL settings improved - button to switch between preview and code view added **Changes:** - support for doTheMath removed **Bug Fixes:** - fixes bug that prevented the activation of the full screen mode via the menu and keyboard shortcuts - menu Markup now appears in the German user interface in German - problems with the presentation of some cheat sheets in the dark mode solved - resolved an issue of displaying some buttons in the dark mode in macOS High Sierra and earlier