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