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    why is the app so useless?

    i thought that when i uploaded my book and picked a style, it would just automatically adapt my book to the chosen style. when i uploaded my book, there is no chapter list, the …

    Shipped Other zash
    From the Alhora team

    Hi zash, I must admit this seems a bit of a contradiction to your other request on here where you do mention that you could not upload your book at all so I am somewhat doubtful this is a genuine comment. Nevertheless, Alhora simply allows you to reassign content easily to and from the front matter and actual manuscript. If you would like to chat about this further, feel free to reach out to [email protected] where I ensure all our users requests and issues are resolved with the quickest urgency.

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    Request: how do i indent each paragraph

    I was looking for this in Alhora: how do i indent each paragraph What outcome would make this useful?

    Shipped Other indentations
    From the Alhora team

    In Alhora you don't indent paragraphs one by one. You set it once and every paragraph follows automatically.

    Go to Style Studio → Paragraphs → Indented.

    That's it. Alhora indents every paragraph for you, and it's clever about it — it skips the first paragraph of a chapter and the first one after a scene break, just like a printed book.

    Two quick tips:

    Even faster: some styles already indent. If you switch to Meridian, Rosewood or Kindred, you'll get indents straight away with nothing to set.
    Pressing Tab won't do it — that's a word-processor habit, and Alhora handles indents as part of your book's style instead.

    And if you have one chapter that shouldn't indent — a letter or a diary entry, say — open that chapter's settings and untick "Indent the first line of each paragraph." The rest of the book keeps its indents.

    Hope that sorts it!

    Shipped in v1.0.0
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    Request: how do i save my project?

    I was looking for this in Alhora: how do i save my project? What outcome would make this useful?

    Shipped Other emilyk
    From the Alhora team

    Hi Emily, by default, your projects always autosaves automatically after every few words you take, so you can be confident that your work is safe. For reassurance, in the top right, there is a ... menu. Save button also exists there :)

    Shipped in v1.00.0
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    Word Count

    Add chapter wordcount as well as the total wordcount of the project. I've tried to find an option somewhere, to see if I've missed it, but I couldn't find it, so if it's there …

    Shipped Other High cat-cn
    From the Alhora team

    This just shipped with the latest version. You can now see this in 2 ways:

    1) The chapter pane, has number of words under the chapter.
    2) Chapter Pulse view, click View at the top and select pulse.

    Hope this helps!

    Shipped in v1.29.1
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    Chapter Titles

    Hey James, I wounder if there is a way to name a Chapter which is only to have a picture on it, but I do not want the name to some in the book, …

    Shipped Other Low e-r-williams
    From the Alhora team

    Two questions, and they turn out to have one answer each — one that already existed and one that was genuinely broken.

    A chapter that shows only a picture, with no name printed: this is already there, and it's called Contents name. Every section has one. Whatever you type in it is what you see in the Contents pane on the left, and it is never printed in the book. So you can call it "Chapter One artwork", find it easily while you're working, and have the page itself print nothing but your picture. Leave the section's own title empty and the page stays bare.

    The second one was a real bug, and you found it. When you added an image page, you got a grey placeholder with no way to click it — the only route in was dragging a picture from the Assets panel, and that quietly added a SECOND image block rather than filling the empty one. No wonder it felt broken.

    Fixed in 1.28.0: the placeholder is now the button. Click it and you can pick a picture you've already brought into the book, or import a new one on the spot.

    Thank you for reporting it. It had been sitting there since image pages shipped.

    Shipped in v1.28.0
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    Chapter Indents

    I have one chapter which is written as a letter to my book subject, I do not want this to have new lines indented. Just all left aligned. I have also tried to put …

    Shipped Other High e-r-williams
    From the Alhora team

    Built, and it works exactly the way you described wanting it.

    Select the chapter in the Contents pane on the left, and in its settings you'll find a tick called "Indent the first line of each paragraph". Untick it, and that one chapter sits flush left while every other chapter in the book keeps its indents. Your letter chapter can now be a letter.

    It works on front and back matter too, so a list, an acknowledgements page or a playlist can refuse indents the same way.

    Thank you for describing the workaround you'd tried — putting it all in one paragraph — because that told me straight away that this was a real gap and not a setting you'd missed. It genuinely wasn't there before. It is now.

    Shipped in v1.28.0
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    Ornament Features

    I am trying to set an ornament for the ebook and kindle versions only as the print book will have full chapter title page art, and no ornament. I am clicking on print and …

    Shipped Other e-r-williams
    From the Alhora team

    You weren't doing anything wrong — the setting you were looking for didn't exist, and the way the app was laid out made it look like it did. Sorry for the time you spent on that.

    Here's what was happening. The ornament lives on your style, and a style is one thing your whole book shares. Switching the preview between print and ebook/Kindle only changed what you were looking at, not which edition you were editing — so removing the ornament removed it from both, every time.

    Fixed in 1.28.0. In Style Studio, underneath the ornament you've chosen, there's now a row called "Show it in" with two boxes: Printed book, and Ebook. Untick Printed book and leave Ebook ticked, and you get precisely what you asked for — full-page chapter title art in the print edition with no ornament, and the ornament in the ebook and Kindle files.

    One tidy detail while I was in there: an ornament the ebook no longer shows is also no longer packed into the EPUB file, so you're not carrying an image no reader will ever see.

    Shipped in v1.28.0