Zettlr 4.10.0

Quality of Life Improvements | Cleanup | Fixes

This new update of Zettlr primarily fixes things that were either broken for some time, or broke in 4.9. However, it also includes a set of features and other improvements that will come in handy.

Among the most notable changes in this update are: (1) attachments specified in BibTeX or BibLaTeX libraries are properly opened via the context menu in Zettlr; (2) Mermaid diagrams will render again; (3) keywords and tags in YAML frontmatters are clickable again; (4) we fixed a bunch of shortcuts that stopped working after the custom shortcut update; (5) the LanguageTool linter now additionally checks various text-fields in your frontmatters; and (6) we have begun homogenizing Zettlr's UI across all platforms. macOS-users should not see many differences, but on Windows and Linux, the app will look considerably different. This change does not affect the placement or functionality of any UI elements, only their styling.

There's much more that has changed, so we again invite you to read the Changelog below before updating. Happy writing!

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Changelog

GUI and Functionality

• Feature: The context menus for links and images now also feature various

items that may be useful for formatting aspects of the link/image descriptions

(#6417).

• Feature: Make the "find next" and "find previous" commands of the editor

search configurable. Previously, both Mod-g and F3 would move to the next

search result, but after implementing custom shortcuts, these two commands

were left unconfigurable and hard-coded to Mod-g. These are now configurable

so that you can change the default keybinding of Mod-g to F3 if you wish

(#6575).

• Feature: The LanguageTool linter now also lints text-only properties in

the frontmatter, using the same language as the rest of the document. This

allows spotting issues with these metadata fields as well. Currently, the

linter includes in its detection the following properties:

• title
• subtitle
• abstract
• abstract-title
• description
• shorttitle
• shortsubtitle
• thanks
• Change: The styles and layouts of various UI components have been

adjusted. The following components should now look mostly the same across all

operating systems:

• Toolbar
• File Tree
• Sidebar
• Change: Removed the .md extension from the default new filename pattern

in the Advanced Preferences menu. This pattern is used as the filename, so the

extension is unnecessary. Previously, creating a new file with the default

pattern would result in the .md extension being added twice to markdown

files, or added incorrectly to non-markdown files. Existing users should

update the pattern manually by removing .md from it. For new installations,

the pattern will be correct. (#6638).

• Change: The layout of the document information popover is now improved.

We have moved the bold styling over to the actually important parts, improved

legibility of the popover, and included more information -- notably,

regardless of which unit (words or characters) you select in the preferences,

the popover will now display both numbers, with your preferred one clearly

visible.

• Fixed a misaligned size distribution between the file manager, editor view,

and sidebar. Now, when double-clicking the dividers between these three

components, they will resize so that both sidebars take up 20% of the window

width, as opposed to a distribution of 20% for the file manager and ca. 15%

for the sidebar. This way, both sidebars of the main window are visually

equally sized.

• Fixed a bug where Zettlr would *never* load attachments from your main

database if that database was in BibTeX or BibLaTeX format, as a small

logical error made the relevant code for retrieving attachments never find the

database in memory and thus would always fall back to attempting to contact

Zotero, which would, logically, fail for JabRef users (#6619).

• Library loading on boot is now asynchronous, also we register a

long-running task during database loads to visualize especially the loading of

large library files.

• Fixed a bug that prevented Mermaid diagrams from rendering due to an

underlying bug in the new API (#6625).

• Fixed an issue that would cause full-text searches to start even as the input

field was still composing non-latin text (#6597; #6604).

• Fixed the spacing on the changelog entries to make it more pleasant to read.
• Fixed an issue that could, under the right circumstances, write unusual values

for resized split views into the configuration, necessitating a configuration

modification to render Zettlr usable again (#5829).

• Fixes various issues pertaining to keywords/tags which are present in YAML

frontmatters of files. Zettlr now again correctly detects these and they are

clickable, yielding a search for keywords, which also includes keywords with

spaces (#2443; #2590; #4498; see PR #6496).

• Fixed a 404-link to an old documentation page in the onboarding dialog.
• Fixed the LanguageTool language overrides. Previously, if you wanted to change

the language in which LanguageTool would check your document via the lang

property (e.g., lang: fr to force French instead of autodetection), you had

to reload the entire document. Now changes are detected on the fly as you

modify the lang property in the YAML frontmatter.

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