iA Writer 5.2.8

iA Writer Pro is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.

Unmatched Writing Experience
iA Writer is designed to provide the best digital writing experience: Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text.

Swipe Right to Library
iA Writer now comes with an integrated library for all your documents. With a swipe to the right you have easy access to all your texts in one place.

Swipe Left to Preview
With synchronized scrolling Preview, iA Writer consciously separates form and content. It optimizes plain text writing while offering stellar formatted export—with world class typography.

Focus Mode and Syntax Control
iA Writer is famous for offering a deeper focus on your text. Its unique tools improve your writing style by honing your concentration: One sentence at a time, or by highlighting different parts of speech.

All Your Documents on All Your Devices
With seamless Dropbox and iCloud sync, iA Writer keeps your documents safe and at hand on whatever device you are using when inspiration strikes.

Features

• Integrated document Library
• Synchronized scrolling Markdown Preview
• Beautiful Preview templates with curated fonts
• Focus Mode fades all but the current sentence, for maximum concentration
• Convert formatting to Microsoft® Word .docx, and back again
• Also export formatting to HTML and beautifully styled PDF
• Auto Markdown formats text on-screen
• Night Mode
• Real-time iCloud and Dropbox sync
• Reading Time; plus sentence, word, and character count
• Customized for Retina displays
• Handoff support
• Full screen for total immersion in the text

What’s New:

Version 5.2
This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 5.2:
A Typographic Christmas

• New typeface in three flavors
• Mono: Single character width, the classic
• Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
• Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
• Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
• 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
• Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
• Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
• High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX

Library Locations

• Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
• Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive

Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word

• Rebuilt from the ground up
• Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
• Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code

Other Improvements

• Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
• Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
• Command-Click links in Editor
• Use – to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
• Inline code command
• Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
• Korean and Russian localizations
• Added help articles
• Better hashtag detection