## New: - New option in the Display settings to place the icons in the side navigation bar at the top instead of centered ## Improvements: - Revised basic template for exporting diaries to EPUB format implemented ## Bug Fixes: - Fixes display errors caused by the side navigation bar

## Improvements: - some UI adjustments to improve compatibility with macOS26 - 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. ## 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 - New generic eBook cover - Quick actions for setting a date when moving an entry to a different date ## Improvements: - General minor improvements when exporting to EPUB format ## Bug Fixes: - Fixes a bug that caused a closing angle bracket to appear in the text when exporting to eBook EPUB format ## 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 settings option for visual highlighting of double spaces at the end of a line (can be set under Preferences > Typography) - new option for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra: Magic Double Space. This function 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 are removed again - Markers in texts that are inserted via copy&paste: The first marker is automatically selected after pasting ## Improvements: - Improved copy and paste behavior of the text editor when the “Paste formatted” option is activated. Source code and plain text copied from web browsers are now better recognized - 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 labeled with markers, which enables faster editing of the respective markups ## Updated: - updated some pages in the help ## Bug fixes: - fixes a bug that prevented scrolling in some areas of the preview - fixes an inaccuracy in the counting of characters in the formatted text - fixes a bug with cursor customization in certain font, size and cursor settings that caused the cursor not to have the desired appearance - fixes a bug when setting the options for line numbering in the preferences

## Bug fix: - fixes a display error in the user interface of the Export Manager

## 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 ## Improvements: - improved behavior if the external tab actions file no longer exists - import from clipboard refined, fewer unnecessary spaces - 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 - added missing texts for error messages in the tab action manager - fixes a bug that causes the mouse pointer to flicker in the text area ## 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 import of documents and insertions from the clipboard regarding superfluous spaces # Bug fixes: - Fixes a bug with Textbundle files with the markup language MarkdownExtra # 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

# Bug fixes: - Fixes a potential crash of the app when running MultiMarkdown if certain conditions are met - 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

## New: - 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 the behavior when creating and closing indented alphanumeric lists - various internal improvements, optimizations and updates ## 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 Myary preferences under Typography - new option for the text editor to not automatically continue alphanumeric lists. This function can be deactivated in the Myary preferences under Typography # Improvements: - redesigned user interface of typography in the preferences - improved sentence counting in the text statistics in the text statistics panel - improved word count in the text statistics in the text statistics panel - improved markup removal action, most special characters remain in their original form - improved behavior when canceling the insertion of text clips under certain circumstances # Internal markup parser:
MultiMarkdown New: - support for abbreviations (acronyms) [MMD v6 Syntax]

## Note: Myary requires at least macOS 10.13 or newer as of this version ## New: - 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". ## Improvements: - improved behavior of the marker selection function - improvements when setting up your own PHP interpreter - improvement of the insert date function regarding undoing the action - various internal modernizations - changes the content of some labels - when loading an entry, the text is now scrolled to the last saved cursor position ## Bug fixes: - 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 - the keyboard shortcut to select the text field has been changed ## 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:** - improved popup behavior of the CriticMarkup popover feature under certain circumstances - improvements in text statistics - improved behavior using text clips when selection is cancelled by ESC key - preferences for setting up the MultiMarkdown tool adjusted to meet the new requirements **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 **Bug 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 CriticMarkup inline tool for convenient marking of selected text. Activation via the menu option Markup > Inline CriticMarkup (⌃P) - new options for the appearance of the sidebar. Option to display a thinner sidebar and option to hide the sidebar - distraction-free mode: new option to enable scrolling of the text field when the mouse pointer is outside the text field **Improvements:** - minor improvements in the handling of the "Show in Finder" action in the Attachments pane - distraction-free mode: when using a background image, the transparency setting is now taken into account - distraction-free mode: background images are no longer simply stretched to fit the size of the screen, but are adjusted proportionally to the display size **Bug Fixes:** - fixes a problem with the forward and backward selection of single entries, which could lead to an internal error under certain circumstances - fixes a bug in the user interface of the Tab Actions Manager **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

**Improvements:** - improved unindent behavior by the delete key in unordered lists (* -) - improved editor behavior when creating lists with li-tags for HTML and BBCode markup languages - 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 **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug in distraction-free mode that prevented writing when highlighting was enabled and no custom font color was set

**New:** - all-new Distraction-Free Mode with extensive settings that can be adjusted directly in the active Distraction-Free Mode **Improvements:** - improvements when adding assets via drag’n drop - when selecting a directory for a diary, a directory within a package file can now also be selected - animated start and end of the distraction free mode. If you don’t want animations, you can switch them off in the Myary preferences under „Reduce user interface animations“. - internal Textile parser: attributes can now be added to caption-, head- and foot-elements for tables - improves the behavior switching between text area and preview, so that the text area no longer has to be explicitly reselected when switching back to text area from the preview **Bug fixes:** - internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that could cause Myary to crash - internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that prevented headings from being written across multiple lines - internal Textile parser: fixes an error that under certain circumstances adds br-tags in table structures - internal Textile parser: fixes an error when converting tables that could cause an abortion of the conversion - internal Markup Parser: fixes a bug for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra for numbered lists when using the tab character that could cause Myary to hang or to display no formatted output at all - internal Smark parser: fixes an issue with anchor links - fixes a bug that could cause Myary to crash when deleting assets - fixes a bug where the selection of the Markup-Language Textile would result in displaying an error message

**New:** - new internal markup interpreter with improvements for all Markup languages ​​supported by Myary - new feature that simplifies the correction of misspelled words and allows suggested corrections to be displayed via keyboard shortcuts. This feature can be activated in the preferences under the item Typography. More details about this feature can be found in the help - 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 Myary **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

**New:** - new default setting for using your own PHP interpreter **Improvements:** - minor changes to the calendar-appearance - various minor adjustments to the user interface - toolbar icons adapted so that they look the same in all supported macOS versions - dark mode for the preferences for users of macOS 10.13 or earlier

**New:** - support for Apple Silicon-processors - new appearance of the toolbar (only macOS Big Sur) **Improvements:** - various internal improvements **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug with the color label selection in the toolbar - fixes a bug in the display for notes in light mode under macOS 10.14 or newer - fixes a bug in the export manager if the directory of the diary to be exported contains files that do not correspond to the general Myary scheme - fixes a bug when exporting in the export manager that the entries were not exported sorted by date

**Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug for the search in entries that led to incorrect hits - fixes a bug for the search that only the first word of a search term with multiple words was used - corrected the position of the button for adding diaries in the preferences

**New:** - setting up the diaries now has its own area in the preferences and has been completely redesigned - new preference option: Automatically adjust the order of diaries according to their use **Updated:** - display of the icon selection gallery for diaries has been replaced by a new system - display of the preview of individual entries has been replaced by a new system - various internal updates **Improvements:** - various smaller improvements and optimizations - improved behavior of Note-C if the order of the notebooks is changed in the preferences - changing the typographic quotation marks in the preferences has an immediate effect, a restart is no longer necessary - preference option for the editor: the font size can now also be set with an own size in addition to the predefined values - support for more types of plain text attachments (css, php, etc.) - attachments are displayed alphabetically in the attachment bar **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug that caused Myary to crash when all Attachments of an currently displayed entry were deleted outside of Myary - fixed a bug that caused Myary to crash when using Attachments under certain circumstances - fixed a bug that led to an incorrect selection under certain circumstances when going through entries using a swipe or keyboard shortcut - fixed a bug in search that could cause Myary to freeze - fixes an error in the preview of text attachment where black text appeared on a black background - fixes a bug that prevented attachment files in bundle format (e.g. Textbundle, RTFD) from appearing in the attachment bar

**Improvements:** - minor improvements for the search function **Bug fixes:** - fixes a bug that prevented other entries from being selected for a single day if Textbundle-format is set as file format

**New:** - two new options in the Tab Actions Manager - instead of having to press ⌥⎋ to display the tab action completion, it can also be specified that only pressing ⎋ displays the completion - option that the completion can be displayed if no character has been written yet - inserting flexible Markers that can be activated using keyboard shortcuts (can be found in the menu under Markup > Insert marker) **Improvements:** - improved movement of text using the keyboard shortcuts - minor improvements in the management of attachments - improved handling of Textbundle files that are not compliant and do not contain an asset directory **Updated:** - Textile parser updated - Smark parser (Swift version) updated - Markdown-Parser (Swift version) updated **Bug fixes:** - fixed a bug in the help pages - fixed a bug in setting a custom color for the I-Beam cursor

**New:** - Extended printer preferences with considerably more options to individualize the printing as you like **Improvements: ** - When the main window is closed, the main window can be reopened by clicking on the dock icon - moving text up and down using the keyboard shortcut for whole lines improved so that the lines swap places with each other - preferences for the editor reorganized - preferences for selected text now with color selection for the text and background of the selected text - preferences for the background color of the text field, this is now optional. If not activated, the standard background color of the system is used - preferences for the spacing in the text now with additional spacing option for the text area up/down - preferences for the cursor revised and expanded, and its behavior in the editor improved - preferences for the I-beam cursor reworked - reset button for the text editor preferences added **Updated:** - internal CSS styles for code blocks revised (in order to use updated CSS styles, the existing styles have to be reset in the CSS manager) - new display foundation for the help system - various internal updates and improvements - Swift markup converter -> Various improvements for the Smark-language **Bug Fixes:** - fixes bugs in functions in which URLs are formatted with % -escapes - fixes cut labels in the user interface - fixes an error when creating ePub eBooks when images with special characters are included - Changes made by moving / duplicating text with keyboard shortcuts are saved

**New:** - new menu and context menu action: Duplicate entry - new alternative markup conversion engine, developed in the Swift programming language, implemented. This can be activated via the Preferences > General > Use internal Swift version of the markup converter (Beta version: Is in continuous development) **Improvements:** - various code areas updated - appearance of the text statistics adjusted - color label order of the pop-up button in the toolbar adjusted - visual improvements to the Tab Action Manager - Tab Action Manager behavior improved when loading, saving and switching between internally and externally stored tab actions - visual improvements to the export manager **Updated:** - Smark parser updated **Bug fixes:** - emoticon insertion as images for diaries via drag'n drop under macOS Mojave or newer restored - webnotes are now correctly declared as such when loading a diary - fixes an error in the export manager when creating ePub files in which images should be included whose file name contains one or more spaces - fixed a bug with the bookmarklet which prevented notes from being created with the Bookmarkletlet **Note on the bookmarklet:** The previous bookmarklet for Safari does not work 100% with this version of Myary. The updated bookmarklet for Safari is available at Xelaton.com.