New features in Picardy 2.0/2.1


  • Edit and preview panes synchronized
    • Edit from preview pane
    • Continuous preview update when typing
    • Scroll in response to click in the opposite pane
  • Toolbar
  • Menu reorganization
  • Groups (2.1)
  • Templates (2.1)
  • Status bar (2.1)
  • Add / delete pages
  • Preview by page number
  • Add / find highlights by color
  • Edit user spellcheck dictionaries
  • Highlight recently created / modified content
  • Add annotations and formatting to page ranges
  • Hyperlink locators (2.1)
  • More reference formatting options
  • More export formatting options
  • EPUB export
  • Import tab-delimited text indexes
  • Autocomplete in edit dialogs
  • Force-sorting
  • Standard keyboard shortcuts now supported
  • Propagate changes
  • Extended Find
  • Annotated error reporting
  • Open backup files
  • Formatting commands
  • Merge
  • Open most recent file on startup
  • Draggable pane divider
  • Arabic spellcheck dictionary
  • Right-to-left text
  • Numerous minor bug fixes and interface updates
  • Updated online help
  • Improved Help viewer

Suggestions, feature requests, and bug reports are gratefully accepted and may be incorporated into future releases.