Atticus Updates
May 24, 2023
- NEW FEATURE – Simple Boxset Creation
- NEW FEATURE – Volumes
- NEW FEATURE – Parts
- NEW FEATURE – Scenes
- NEW FEATURE – Chapter Level Settings
- NEW FEATURE – Option to replace title page with full page image
- Major update to the theme builder
- New scene break options
- Dynamic scroll bars that are easier to see
January 19, 2023
- NEW FEATURE – Best of Both option (combines orphan/widow handling with page balancing)
- NEW FEATURE – Attribution setting for Block Quotes
December 15, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Option to prioritize orphan/widow handling or page balancing
November 15, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Find and Replace
- NEW FEATURE – Booklinker Integration for universal book links
October 27, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Separate page option for images within a chapter
- Fix for the margin issue caused by a footnote on the last page of a chapter
October 20, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Page breaks
- Additional copyright templates
September 28, 2022
- Fixed ePub validation error when table of contents is hidden
- Fixed bidirectional endnotes in templates
- Fixed drop cap with smart quote and italics causing double letter
September 13, 2022
- New Lambda serverless press for exports/imports
- Fixed list breaking across pages in table of contents
- Fixed list text alignment across pages
August 9, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Keep options for subheadings and ornamental breaks
- NEW FEATURE – Font style options for custom themes
- Ordered list improvements (1, a, i, etc)
- Social media icons center alignment fixed on Kindle Previewer
- Fixed social media icons causing docx export error
August 3, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – duplicate a custom theme
- Fixed hyphenated words running through the margin
- Fixed long book/chapter titles in the header running through page numbers
July 11, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Social media profiles
- Chapter number capitalization fix
- Fixed table of contents with lots of subheadings
- List formatting improvements
June 23, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Version naming and sorting on the home page
- Additional Unicode characters supported for print
- Allow for <> in epub without removing text or reading it as code
- Fix for unwanted blank pages
June 16, 2022
- Smart Quote improvements
- Image opacity improvements
- Importing endnotes fixed
- Editing endnotes fixed
- Fix for ePub validation issue when front matter titles use &
May 30, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Smart Quote consistency notification system
May 27, 2022
- Button added to allow authors to select when to run the smart quote algorithm
- Hardcoded slang/abbreviated phrases to have the correct quote when using the smart quote feature
May 19, 2022
- Moved “Print” to the top of the dropdown list for devices
May 4, 2022
- Improved header/footer spacing
- Roboto Light fixed for custom themes
- Fixed writing goal word count popup not showing word daily word counts for previous months
April 26, 2022
- Additional font styling options for body text in print
April 12, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Smart/Curly quote algorithm
- Fixed font reverting when changing trim size
April 7, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Drag and drop .docx into an existing book
- Fix for epub export failures due to unsupported HTML tags (issues created by copy/paste)
March 16, 2022
- Added ePub metadata so BookFunnel can identify Atticus created books
March 9, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – PDF previewer and generation update
- Exact preview of the final export
- Headers and footers in the preview
- Page count shown below the previewer
- Improvements to orphan and widow handling
- Direct PDF download
- Full page background with white text option
- Em dash and en dash automatically recognized when typing
- Improvements to html handling
- Fine-tuning of syncing and timestamp handling
March 1, 2022
- Conflict chapters disabled
January 11, 2022
- NEW FEATURE – Book Brush integration
December 2, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Sprint timer
- NEW FEATURE – opacity setting for background images in custom themes
- NEW FEATURE – light text option for custom themes with background images
November 5, 2021
- Fixes for syncing errors
- Ability to delete previously uploaded custom theme images
November 1, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Writing habit goal settings
- NEW FEATURE – Writing preferences
- Font
- Font size
- Line height
- Indented/spaced paragraphs
- Justified
October 28, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Start page setting for ePub
- New tooltip for book covers
- Updated tooltip for full page images
October 26, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Book Level goals
- NEW FEATURE – Reusable templates
- Subheadings can be included in the table of contents
- Updated icon for json backup
- Fix for duplicate project bug
October 22, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – OpenDyslexic font available for chapter headings and print body font
- NEW FEATURE – Ornamental break width percentage selector
- NEW FEATURE – Large print configuration (defaults change font/font size/ragged right/spacing to meet accessibility guidelines)
- NEW FEATURE – All chapter body options (numbered/start on)
- Fixes docx export issues
- Fixed full page images showing page number
October 13, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Internal linking
- Fixed list line spacing in PDF
- Fixed “undefined” quote
October 4, 2021
- Image compression on all new image imports including full page and custom theme images
September 20, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – image options
- width percentage selector
- wrap text
- linkable
- Mobi import (not perfect but functional as a last resort)
- Full page image improvements
- Import improvements
- Improvements to first sentence after break formatting
- Table of contents improvements
July 21, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Full account backup button on the top navigation bar
- Automatic backup when logging out
- Line spacing bug fix
- Centered image bug fix
July 2, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – .docx export
- NEW FEATURE – .rtf import
- NEW FEATURE – ePub import
- Support button added to the top navigation bar
June 21, 2021
- Added the ability to delete a hyperlink without deleting the text
June 18, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Body text options
- Smallcaps
- Monospace
- SansSerif
- Fixed drop caps showing for centered text and lists
June 9, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Undo/redo buttons
June 7, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Full page image chapter type
- NEW FEATURE – Custom chapter type
- NEW FEATURE – Error notification popup
June 3, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Include in options – All, ebook, print, none
- NEW FEATURE – Begin on – Right, left, no preference
- New sans serif fonts added to print font dropdown (PT Sans/Source Sans Pro)
May 28, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Word counter – book, chapter and selected text
May 27, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Chapter navigation buttons below the previewer
- Added the ability to delete the Copyright and Title pages
- Fixed two issues causing exports to fail
- Fixes the super huge publisher logo issue
May 25, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Export buttons below the previewer
- Copyright template included in new and uploaded books
- Navigation arrows for theme carousel
- First text after special element treated as beginning of the chapter
- Open Dyslexic font available in the previewer
May 21, 2021
- NEW FEATURE – Split chapter feature
- 6 new themes added
- Scrollbar improvements
- Writing editor responsiveness improved
May 19, 2021
- Improved importing
- Recognizes *** as ornamental breaks
- More consistent chapter breaks
- More consistent chapter titles
- Print Previewer improvements
- Immediate display of theme choices including font, size, line spacing, margins, chapter title options
- Shows available trim sizes