What's new in 2.1

The release of Ulysses 2.1 brings Mac OS X Lion integration and two brand-new exporters: the WebExport and the ePub Exporter. Additionally, many components of Ulysses were carefully redesigned and improved, making your writing experience even more seamless and stable.

Mac OS X Lion integration

Apple's latest version of Mac OS X &nash; Lion – adds hundreds of new features which can be incorporated into applications. And even though many of those have actually been a part of Ulysses since version 1.0 (fullscreen, resume, to name but two), Ulysses is now a true Lion application. We added native fullscreen mode, overlay scrollbars, and sandboxing, plus we switched some preferences to make Ulysses' default behavior resemble that of OS X Lion. Additionally, you can now use the two-finger swipe to switch between tabs in the Editor.

WebExport

Ever wanted to export your projects into a web page? Or just wanted to have that one document ready for a WordPress blog post? We know you did, and you can now do this plus a lot more with the brand-new WebExport. Prepare your projects for the web, may it be a simple Markdown text or a complex web site. To get the most out of the WebExport, you can create your own templates to customize the exported files for your needs.

ePub Exporter

The other new Exporter is the ePub Exporter. Now you can export your projects to eBooks and read them in iBooks on iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Includes support for references, footnotes, title images, and much more. How can publishing get any simpler?

And that's just the surface…

These were only the three most important new features. Below you will find the complete list of changes and bugfixes.

What else is new?
- 1. GENERAL
    1. Improved integration with Mac OS X Lion.
    2. New ePub Exporter (beta) for exporting projects for reading in iBooks.
    3. New WebExport (beta) to export your projects to web pages.
    4. Improved overall program stability and data safety.
    5. Updated all localizations.
  2. LION INTEGRATION
    1. Ulysses now supports native fullscreen mode on Lion.
    2. All views and modes now use Lion's overlay scrollbars.
    3. Enabled horizontal swipe gestures gestures to switch between tabs.
    4. Increased application and data security by sandboxing Ulysses.
  3. NEW WEB EXPORT & EPUB EXPORT
    1. Provides five customizable templates for exporting to full web pages and snippets (HTML, Markdown, and WordPress).
    2. Template Editor to create custom templates directly within Ulysses.
    3. Full scripting support for post-processing.
  4. CONSOLE MODE
    1. Added option to stay visible while app is in background.
    2. Now behaves correctly when changing screens or resolution.
    3. Added access to Bookmarks.
    4. Fixed bug in the Excerpts pane when switching documents.
    5. Fixed several hangs and crashes.
  5. BROWSER
    1. Filters can now search for bookmarked documents.
    2. Label and time column now show an expansion when too small and hovered.
    3. Search pattern in Browser is now automatically transferred to the Editor's Find Panel.
    4. Documents can now be added to Collections even when not in Cumulated Mode.
    5. No more duplicate tool tips for time stamp column.
  6. EDITOR
    1. Added support for line breaks inside a single paragraph (press Shift-Return instead of Return).
    2. Revamped the Find panel’s look & feel and improved its behavior.
    3. The Find Panel now has a "case sensitive" checkbox.
    4. Menu entries for Styles and Markers now have a tick mark for the currently active Style or Marker.
    5. Bookmarks can now be accessed via the main menu and the paragraph bar.
    6. Added a shortcut to add/remove Bookmarks (Cmd-Shift-B).
    7. Added a shortcut to show/hide the Editor Split-View (Ctrl-S).
    8. Added actions to "Go to next/previous document" to "View" menu.
    9. Removed a few minor visual glitches.
    10. The text area no longer scrolls horizontally.
    11. Text trash now only works for minimum length of two non-whitespace characters.
    12. Solved an issue where the state of the Split-Views was not remembered correctly.
    13. Labels and status in the info panel are now updated correctly.
    14. Fixed a bug where the label color was stuck at a certain color.
    15. Improved the overall editor performance.
  7. LATEX EXPORTER
    1. LaTeX export now allows TeX post-processing.
    2. Added floating element support.
    3. Added capability to duplicate templates.
    4. Added support for user-defined image sizes.
    5. Now preserves leading whitespace on multi-line Paragraph Styles.
    6. No longer merges adjacent Inline Styles into one.
    7. Class file table view now supports drag & drop of files.
    8. Due to Mac OS restrictions, the export now always creates a folder.
    9. Fixed crash when exporting a document which ended with an Inline Style.
  8. OTHER EXPORTERS
    1. Added support for footnotes to the Plain Text Exporter.
    2. PDF exporter no longer prints but saves PDF files correctly.
    3. When entering Export without any document selected, the currently active document is selected.
    4. Numbering chapters now works correctly with page breaks between documents.
    5. French quotation marks are now converted correctly.
    6. All soft returns are converted to line breaks.
  9. PREFERENCES
    1. Style preferences now use the standard font panel.
    2. The base font can now also have traits (bold, italic), disabling these options for Styles.
    3. All possible shortcuts for Styles and Markers work now correctly.
    4. Changing fonts or colors no longer marks all documents as edited.
  10. SAVING & BACKUP
    1. Revert to Backup menu now shows the last backups.
    2. Improved project loading and saving reliability.
    3. Backup location can no longer be changed due to application sandboxing.
    4. Saving a document in an unsaved project asks to save the project.
  11. DOCUMENTATION
    1. New documentation for WebExport and the ePub Exporter.
    2. Added changes in LaTeX exporter settings.
    3. Better explanation of adding images and footnotes during export.
    4. Added list of placeholders for preamble in LaTeX templates.
    5. Added links to sample projects.
  12. OTHER CHANGES
    1. Modernized the Search & Replace interface and fixed a couple of bugs there.
    2. Adopted Garbage Collection for improved application stability.
    3. Fixed spotlight integration for Ulysses projects.
    4. Character count in the status bar now exactly matches the one from document Info.