What's New in Jarte

Changes in Jarte 4.4

Enhancements:

The default initial folder used for Open/Save can now be set by going to File > File Options > Set Default Folder. The default initial folder could already be specified by existing advanced option Default Initial Folder, but the new file option makes the ability to change the setting more obvious and convenient.
For Jarte Plus users, custom shortcut keys (or custom Quick Bar buttons) can now be assigned to new commands Select About Panel, Select File Panel, Select Font Panel, Select Paragraph Panel, and Select Spell Panel. This allows custom shortcut keys to be used to switch between the side tool panels. Note that command Hide Tool Panel already exists (toggles between showing and hiding tool panel).
Closing a document no longer causes Jarte Plus to exit split view mode at the same time. Exiting split view mode is still accomplished by selecting Split View Off.
When the text based status bar is displayed, the word count field is now the first field rather than the last field, assuming word counting in the status bar is enabled.
Pressing the Escape key while keyboard focus is in the Find Bar or Reference Bar now closes the Find Bar or Reference Bar.
New advanced setting Default to Plain Text can be used to direct the New command to create a plain text document, rather than a rich text document.
Jarte now recognizes when it is running under the PortableApps.com platform and conforms accordingly.

Bug Fixes:

Clicking one of two buttons on the line guide while in split view mode did not cause the document with the line guide to become the active document if it was not already active.
If the Swap Views command was invoked while split view mode was being used and the line guide feature was being used, the line guide did not swap with its associated editing pane.
Jarte could not save changes made to a file marked as "Hidden" in Windows Explorer.
The Starting page number field in the Print dialog did not allow negative numbers to typed in (i.e., the up/down was needed to enter negative numbers).
If Jarte was configured to minimize to the system tray on the taskbar, and was minimized, then Jarte did not come to the top of other windows if the user double clicked a document in Windows Explorer.
Text could not be dragged-and-dropped into Jarte from another program.
A couple of bugs with Jarte's tabs bar were fixed. The bugs only occurred in certain scenarios when there were enough tabs present to cause the special navigation tab to appear.
If default left and right page margins are different than the factory default then text wrapping in the editing pane was based on the factory default page margins until the Print dialog was used.
The default page header did not get printed for a document if Quick Print was used before the Print dialog was displayed.
Spell check was not always ignoring HTML tags during the first spell check when option Ignore HTML Tags was enabled.
The Insert/Overwrite indicator in the status bar was not updated if the Insert key on the keyboard's number pad was used to toggle the insert/overwrite state, rather than the normal Insert key.
The Open and Save dialogs could appear off screen if Jarte was run from a flash drive on a computer with a high resolution screen and then Jarte was subsequently run from the flash drive when the drive was plugged into a computer with a lower resolution screen.
There was a scenario in which Jarte would bypass the "Do you want to save?" prompt when closing a new document and would present the Save dialog. The scenario only happened when AutoSave was enabled but when it occurred it was difficult to close the tab, and difficult to exit Jarte while the tab was present.
The first command in the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog was not in alphabetical order.
The Reopen Last Session feature did not reopen a file that was first created while closing Jarte's previous session.
The page header/footer Default button was disabled whenever the Print header and footer check box was unchecked, which made it inconvenient to set a default of no header/footer after one had been defined.
A search for text that included a curly quote would not succeed if the curly quote had been pasted into the Find Bar.
The commands for changing the style of numbered lists were missing from the Customize Shortcut Keys dialog.
If the Screen Capture feature was selected after pressing the Clip List global hot key then Jarte would come to the foreground when the screen capture was complete. That was undesirable if Jarte was not the active program at the time the global hot key was used.
The Ctrl+W shortcut key did not close the active document (Ctrl+W is an alternate of the Ctrl+F4 shortcut).
If the text cursor was positioned at the very end of a plain text document, and the document ended with a hyperlink, and the Auto Hyperlink Detect feature was enabled, then pressing the Enter key caused the hyperlink to be opened in the a web browser rather entering a carriage return for a new line.
An innocuous error message sometimes appeared after dismissing the Windows' screen saver if Jarte's background spell checking was enabled.

Changes in Jarte 4.3

Bug Fixes:

A bug introduced in version 4.2 prevented DOC files created with Word from opening properly in many instances.
A bug introduced in version 4.2 caused the mouse cursor appearance to change to a busy cursor whenever the mouse was positioned over items in a menu. This occurred only in Jarte Plus and only when the Quick Bar was displayed.

Changes in Jarte 4.2

Enhancements:

Jarte's backup folder location can now be customized via advanced setting Backup Folder Path.
Command New Plain Text is added which is the same as New except it creates a plain text document rather than a rich text document. New Plain Text is not accessible through Jarte's interface, but it can be assigned a shortcut key in Jarte Plus. New Plain Text is a slightly more efficient way of creating a plain text document than using New and then converting the new document to plain text.
Jarte can now be run as a portable app directly from a CD (of course, Jarte can already be run from a USB flash drive).
Jarte will automatically run as a portable app when installed to a DropBox folder. More information here.
It is now possible to assign a negative number to the Start Page Number setting in Jarte's header and footer designer. This can be used to cause a page other than the first page to be numbered "Page 1" (preceeding pages are left unnumbered).
New advanced setting Add to Bottom is now available for the Paste Board feature. The new setting is used to reverse the order of clips in the Paste Board (i.e., first clip first instead of first clip last).
The Find Bar has new indicators "cs" and "ww" to remind the user when the "case sensitive" and "whole word" search options are enabled.
Special text sequences {cr} and {tab} can now be used in the Jump to field of the Insert Hyperlink window. This allows carriage returns and tabs to be specified in the Jump to text. Note that {cr} and {tab} are already available for the Find Bar.
Other smaller enhancements were also added.

Bug Fixes:

There were some instances of Jarte starting in screen reader mode when a real screen reader program was not present.
Portions of Jarte's Clip List feature have been recoded to make it more robust. There had been occasional reports of Jarte crashing that were traced back to the Clip List feature even though users were not actively using the Clip List when the crashes occurred.
If two "Replace All"s were performed on the same text selection then the second Replace All was applied to the entire document rather than just the text selection.
Jarte Plus' split view display became distorted if the user tried to move the pane divider while the Jarte ruler was displayed.
Jarte Plus would visibly scroll down through a project file looking for hyperlinks when a project file was opened. This was generally only noticeable for large project files, but is now cleaned up.
The units of measure in the Tab Stops window did not reflect the correct units of measure if the user chosen units of measure was different than the default for the user's locale.
The header/footer divider line, when specified, was not being printed on all pages.
The "C" command line parameter did not work if Jarte was already running.
The Go to Page and Go to Line features did not work properly when Jarte was running in screen reader mode.
Printing a document whose left and right page margins were not equal on a duplex printer resulted in the left margin being too large on the even pages of the printout.
There were situations where a file that was a copy of another file could still show the original file's name in the page header/footer line.
If custom short keys Ctrl+D or Ctrl+T were assigned to features other than the dictionary feature and thesaurus features, respectively, then the assignments would revert back to the dictionary and thesaurus the next time Jarte Plus was started.
There were cases where certain user defined buttons in the Quick Bar were disabled in situations where they should not have been.
Spell checking for Dutch has been changed to allow the use of compound words as correct spellings.
The incorrect URL was sometimes displayed when moving the mouse over a hyperlink that was immediately above, or immediately below, another hyperlink.
If Save As was used to save a document created from a read-only template then the document continued to be treated as read-only until it was closed and reopened.
The Jarte Plus PDF manual was formatted with too much white space unnecessarily increasing its size.
Other minor bugs were also fixed.

Changes in Jarte 4.1

New Features:

A optional Quick Bar feature has been added that provides instant access to a number of frequently used features.
In addition to left aligned tabs, Jarte's ruler now supports right, center, and decimal aligned tabs.
A new Stay on Top option has been added to the Options menu.
A global hot key can be defined for the Clip List menu. This makes it easy to access the Clip List while using programs other than Jarte.
A new Paste Board feature displays a special document tab that automatically records everything copied to the clipboard.
A new Line Guide feature displays a colored, translucent, moveable, horizontal bar that can be used to highlight a line of interest in a document.
Jarte's interface background pattern can be changed to one of the installed backgrounds, extra backgrounds provided on the Jarte web site, or to any custom background. Previously, this feature was exclusive to Jarte Plus.
Jarte's various color selection palettes now include a new row of color selection buttons to which the user can assign custom colors.
Jarte now supports the keyboard's Scroll Lock key. When Scroll Lock is enabled document scrolling can be performed using the up and down arrow keys. The Scroll Lock state is displayed in the status bar. This feature can be disabled.
Jarte will now automatically mirror the left and right page margins, and the header and footer lines, between odd and even pages when printing double-sided printouts.
If the "underline" font attribute is selected for the header/footer font then Jarte will draw a solid line across the printed page under the header line and above the footer line.
Jarte will now perform a descending order sort when the Sort feature is selected while pressing the Shift key.
Clicking the "Go to Top" button on the Find Bar while pressing the Shift key will now cause the text cursor to move to the bottom of the page instead of the top.
Pressing the Shift key while the mouse is positioned over a tab causes the full file path of the document to be displayed in Jarte's title bar.
The position of a table column can now be easily moved via the Edit Table window.
The Options menu on Jarte's Find Bar now includes "Insert Carriage Return" and "Insert Tab" items which make it easy to include those characters in the search text.
The status bar can now switched to a text based status bar. This may be preferred by users who use Jarte's Minimal Layout. Right click on the status bar and select "Use Text Status Bar".
Double clicking an empty area next to the tabs will now start a new document.
Many other small tweaks and enhancements have been added.

New Jarte Plus Exclusive Features:

The buttons on the new Quick Bar are completely configurable in Jarte Plus.
Custom shortcut keys for Jarte's features can now be created. This includes the ability redefine or remove Jarte's factory defined shortcut keys.
A new split view mode allows two documents to be displayed simultaneously either side-by-side or one over the other.
File hyperlinks can now specify a "jump to" text target. When the file is opened via the hyperlink Jarte Plus will automatically scroll down to the first occurrence of the specified text target.
Project files are now supported. When Jarte Plus opens a project file it will automatically open the files pointed to by any file hyperlinks contained in the project file.
The status bar can now show a continuously updated word count. Right click on the status bar and select "Enable Word Counting".
Command line parameter "/PL" has been added to allow landscape printing from the command line.
A printable PDF manual is included with all Jarte Plus purchases. Previously, the PDF manual was only available with the purchase of the Jarte Plus CD.

Bug Fixes:

The document title was not being included in the spooled print job when the Quick Print or the Print and Exit features were used.
The Recent Fonts submenu of the Fonts menu was not always being properly updated.
There were cases where Jarte was not automatically starting in screen reader mode even if a screen reader was already running.
Jarte 3.3 allowed hyperlinks to folders. That capability was inadvertently lost in Jarte 3.4, but it has now been restored.
If a backslash character was included in the "Line to show" field of the Insert Hyperlink window then the "Line to show" text was not properly formatted when inserted into the document.
The Smart Quotes menu item in the Options menu did not always properly reflect whether the Smart Quotes feature was currently enabled.
Files names containing the ampersand character were not properly displayed in the Tabs menu.
The Tabs menu was not being immediately updated to reflect the new file name when Save As was used to save a file under a different name.
Jarte allowed saving to read-only files when certain non-text changes were made to the document (e.g., setting bookmarks, changing print settings, etc).
Jarte did not always properly load the page margins and paper size from documents created with a word processor other than Jarte.
If the Minimal Layout was in use, and the alternate main menu was in use, and a plain text document was opened, the Paragraph menu items always appeared disabled from that point forward even if the user switched to a rich text document.
Other small fixes have been added.

Changes in Jarte 4.0

Jarte 4.0 was a beta release, see changes for version 4.1.

Changes in Jarte 3.4

There was a memory leak that sometimes caused Jarte to crash.
The spell checker was identifying table control characters as misspellings.
The spell checker did not handle contractions correctly for words in the French and Italian spelling dictionaries.
The spell checker wrongly treated accented capital letters to be correctly spelled when using the French spelling dictionary in French Canada.
The spell checker wrongly treated concatenated words as misspellings when using the German spelling dictionary.
Page breaks and page numbering in the editing pane were too light to be easily seen on brighter monitors. Page breaks and page numbering are now more visible, and their color can be adjusted via new advanced setting Page Break Shade.
If the Jarte icon was set to appear in the taskbar tray, and the user clicked the icon to access the menu, the menu would not always disappear properly if the user decided not to select a menu item.
Turning on Jarte Plus' Auto Correct feature required the "correct.tlx" spelling dictionary to be manually enabled if it was not already enabled. This was a source of confusion so the correct.tlx dictionary is now automatically enabled and disabled in conjunction with the setting of the Auto Correct feature.
Jarte's Alt key tags were being displayed in circumstances where they should not have been. That has been corrected, and a new Alt Key Tag Delay advanced setting has been introduced to provide more control over the display of the tags.
When using multiple monitors with the primary monitor on the right Jarte could not be made to initially appear on the left monitor rather than the right monitor.
The Suppress header and Suppress footer controls on the Print window were not working properly.
If a Windows software restriction policy is applied that prevents the execution of code from the Windows application data folders then this caused a problem for Jarte in some circumstances since Jarte caches DOC converter files under the application data folder. Converter caching can now be disabled via advanced setting Enable Converter Caching.
When closing a file Jarte prompted for whether the user wanted to save changes even when the Auto Save feature was enabled. Jarte now automatically saves any modifications to a file when the file is closed if Auto Save is enabled.
The Insert Hyperlink feature did not properly handle SSL URLs.
File hyperlinks were not portable. File hyperlinks are now portable in the following scenario: Jarte is running from a USB drive and is being used to modify a file which resides on the same USB drive. A file hyperlink is inserted which points to a second file which also resides on the USB drive. The hyperlink will now continue to work even if the drive letter of the USB drive Jarte and the two files reside on is different in a later editing session.
If the Format Brush was used on text containing a hyperlink then the hyperlink was lost as a result.
An error occurred when the Alt+L shortcut was used to display Jarte's Clip List.
Jarte Plus' Auto Outline feature did not properly renumber an outline if a soft carriage return (i.e., Shift+Enter) was inserted.
The spell checker was only providing one suggested spelling for a misspelled word when Jarte was running in screen reader mode on Windows Vista.
When a new RTF file was created via Windows Explorer, or by right clicking on the Windows desktop, the proper default page margins were not applied if the file was subsequently opened in Jarte.
Many other less notable bugs were also fixed.

Changes in Jarte 3.3

New Features:

Hot Connect is the only major feature added in this release, but it's a good one. Hot Connect provides a simple means for using Jarte to write or spell check text in other programs. It can be used for writing tasks such as blogging, or spell checking text in situations where no spell checking is otherwise available. Hot Connect can also be used for reading articles from your web browser without the ads.

Notable Enhancements:

Page numbering options in the Print window's Header & Footer tab have been enhanced. You can now specify the total number of pages to appear as part of the page number (e.g., "Page 1 of 100"). You can also choose a start page number other than "1".
The page header and footer lines can be suppressed for a specified number of pages at the beginning of the document.
The Alt key can now be used to access the menu buttons on Jarte's Compact Layout. Before, Alt key access to Jarte's functions was only possible when the main menu was displayed. Hold down the Alt key to see the Alt key assignments for the buttons.
It is now possible to specify more than one spelling dictionary language for the spell check feature. This is useful if you sometimes mix writing of more than language in the same document. Click here for more details.
An Italian language spell check dictionary has been added.
New option Use Alternate Main Menu has been added to the Options menu. The alternate main menu has the same functions as the default main menu, but it is laid out with more top level menu items and fewer cascading sub-menus. Many users may find the alternate menu easier to navigate than the traditional default main menu.
When closing Jarte the "Do you want to save..." prompt has always appeared for each open document with unsaved changes. Now, if you press the Shift key while answering Yes or No then the answer will automatically be applied to the other documents being closed.
New command line switch, "C", has been added that automatically creates a new file with the file name specified on the command line if the file does not already exist.
Many other smaller enhancements and bug fixes are included in this release.

Changes in Jarte 3.2

Version 3.2 fixes a problem that caused Jarte not to start on certain computers. Only a few other minor fixes are included.

Changes in Jarte 3.1

Version 3.1 adds fixes and minor enhancements.

New Features in Jarte 3.0

Updated interface and appearance in a new compact layout (the old layout is still available)
Based on the latest version of the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine
Page margins, page size, bookmarks and other document attributes are now saved as part of the document
Jarte can now be run as a portable program directly from a USB flash drive (Options > Install to USB Drive)
Jarte automatically integrates with both the online and desktop versions of Visual Thesaurus (View > Show Reference Bar > Thesaurus; or right click on any word > Thesaurus)
Template support (File > Save As > Save As Template)
Export to HTML (File > Save As > Export > Export as HTML)
E-mail support (File > Send)
Opens the new Microsoft Word 2007 format DOCX files^*
Associate Jarte to RTF, DOC, and TXT file types (File > Options > File Associations)
Insert Hyperlinks (Insert > Insert Hyperlink)
Table support (Insert > Insert Table)
Insert Equations (Insert > Equation)
User defined tab stops created by clicking the ruler (View > Show Ruler)
Change letter casing (Edit > Change Case)
Sorting (Edit > Sort)
Click-less operation allows you to control Jarte with significantly fewer mouse clicks (Options > Click-less Operation)
"Wrap to Page" is the new default word wrap setting that wraps document text just as it would appear on a printed page (Options > Word Wrap > Wrap to Page)

New Jarte Plus Features:

AutoOutline makes creating outlines a breeze by automatically applying the appropriate numbering to each paragraph according to its indention level as you work (Paragraph > AutoOutline)
Background spell checking as you type via use of red wavy lines under misspelled words (Edit > Spell Check Options > Background Spell Checking)
AutoCorrect automatically corrects commonly misspelled words as you type and can also be used to create your own typing shortcuts for commonly used words, and it phrases (Edit > Spell Check Options > AutoCorrect)

^*Requires the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack

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