Naracea 1.3.0 RC1

I just couldn’t resist. Yes, that’s true. There won’t be naracea 1.2, but we will go straight to version 1.3.

While I was testing naracea 1.2, which added this nice spellchecker I’m currently using, I was able to put some extra time into development, and before I was satisfied with 1.2, I somehow managed implement on satisfactory level what I intended for 1.3. So considering this short time which would be between the two releases, I decided to skip 1.2 altogether and go from 1.1 to 1.3 directly. There will be some slight delay in the schedule, but since the 1.3 looks pretty solid as it is right now, I believe I’ll be able to release it in the first week of July.

So, what’s new in 1.3? From never-released-1.2 there is the spellchecker, of course, but I also managed to integrate simple markup processor Textile. So now you can markup your plain text with Textile markup and naracea. Of course, I added some very basic syntax highlighter for Textile, so if you turn it on, you can recognize some basic formatting as you are typing, and there is also possibility to export markup to HTML and RTF files. Plus markup processing when you open text viewer. And possibility to view the processed text in web browser.

I think this is neat update, and naracea finally has all features I originally wanted to have in version 1.0, but it wasn’t reasonable to wait with the release until I’ll implement them all. The releasing gave me the urge to fix bugs and keep everything in good shape, and even though I feel slight embarrassment over 1.0 now, when all those features are finished, I’m definitely glad I released early, even though I’m not able to release as often as I’d like.

So, here is the installer, and here you can download the zipped application.