Announcing Shaxpir 4.3

NOTE: This article discusses Prosecraft.io, a linguistic analysis website we discontinued in August 2023. To learn more how things work today, check out our follow up article: How Shaxpir Does Linguistics

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Hi, everybody! I hope you all had a warm and wonderful holiday season, spending time with people you love…

And for those of you who participated in NaNoWriMo, I hope you feel proud of your achievements last November. Here at Shaxpir headquarters, we saw a record-breaking amount of writing among the authors in our community, so nice job, you guys!

Anyways, now that the new year has come, I’m pleased to announce a new release: Shaxpir 4.3 is available today, with the following list of new features and enhancements:

• You can now create folders to organize the books you’ve written, using drag-and-drop to rearrange them into groups, the same way you’ve always been able to organize your manuscript and notebook. (However, if you click a book title, without dragging, the behavior is exactly as before: the navigation panel slides over, revealing the contents of your book.)

• You can now choose an alternate text size (tiny, small, medium, large, and huge), just like setting your theme or typeface. So if you’ve been squinting at tiny text on a huge monitor, this should be a big help.

• We completely redesigned the Shelley theme to give it better contrast and make it more legible. If you’ve never tried it (or if you tried it but didn’t like it), take another look. It’s available to all Shaxpir 4: Pro subscribers

This release also includes lots of small cosmetic tweaks, as well as fixes for some of the bugs reported by the community:

• Using cut-and-paste was causing the TAB character to be erroneously inserted into the text.

• Some margin comments were not saved after modification.

• Paragraphs with center or right alignment had incorrect indentation.

• Adding an IDEA into one of your existing books was causing the app to freeze.

• The linguistics panel failed to appear, for all books using FOLDERs to organize their manuscripts.

Many many thanks to all the users who reported bugs, or who sent suggestions. Your feedback has been invaluable.

You can contact me anytime, if you have questions or suggestions or ideas. I’m always here to help. Just email me at: support@shaxpir.com

And as always, new users can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Shaxpir 4: Pro, and see how these new linguistic superpowers change the way you write.