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Hi! So my manuscript contains some text messages, I'd love a different way to stylise these such as text bubbles!
Looking into this! I will look to ship some new designs and ensure they make their way to the exports!
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We added some new variants (and also colour selection!) Enjoy!
Shipped in v1.25.0How can i invite my assistant to edit on here with me?
Hi jhart. This doesn't currently exist. I am scoping how this would work as it is a pretty difficult piece of networking required. I can't commit to any timescales right now but after I plan how this could work, I will give you an update. This seems similar to your other request so I will remove that one!
- James
Hi!! Is there a way to rename a series after I've saved or added books to it? I'm looking and I can't find any option to
Delivered in 1.31.0
Shipped in v1.31.0Hello, I really love the live preview of the book / ebook on the right side of the screen. It helps a lot with how I write my books! But I am wondering if …
Hi Jade, in the book section, I will create a page view for you :)
The app shows us out book covers, is there a way to export the cover full covers as a print ready PDF? In my case, for Amazon KDP, but any other formats for other …
This will be shipped tomorrow evening!
Shipped in v1.30.0Hii :) For the style preview, can the image showing the text and be fixed even when we scroll down? I always have to scroll back up to see what the font style or …
Ha — we felt this one too. That scroll-back-up-to-check dance was
genuinely maddening.
Fixed in 1.25.0: the controls now scroll inside their own pane, so the
preview just sits there where you left it. Update and it should behave.
Would love to be able to see the the page breaks in each chapter so I can see how many are there rather than I pageless view
Fixed!
Shipped in v1.25.0I'd love to have the option to turn off the drop caps for specific chapters (for example, the blurb or character pronunciations)
I have override settings for other features, I do not rightly as you mentioned for drop caps. I will add this into the roadmap!
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Exists in the left pane now when selecting a chapter!
Shipped in v1.25.0I would like to ask if the pricing currency change be selectable in the Alhora Store Fronts. I was looking at its features and I assume, because I am writing US English, the store …
Will look into creating it to be more dynamic in this regard visually, Stripe Connect should handle all of this on their end when you set up the pricing through different payment regions. Will see what can be done to align.
When the opening paragraph is only one line, the drop cap still reserves its full multi-line depth, creating a large blank area before the second paragraph. Could there be an option for a raised …
There's now a setting called "Fit to the opening" in the Style panel under Chapter openers, switched on by default, so when a chapter starts on a very short paragraph the drop cap quietly shortens itself instead of holding its full depth and leaving that gap. Books you've already written should simply look better next time you open them, with nothing for you to change. Depth is adjustable in the same place too — 2, 3 or 4 lines — if you ever want to dial it up or down. I'll be straight with you about one thing: it stops at two lines, so a single-line opening will still leave a little space rather than none, and a proper raised initial is what would close that last bit — it's on the list as its own job. Really glad you flagged this one. It should go live in 1.30.0 tomorrow evening!
Shipped in v1.30.0I was trying to connect the characters, but do not have an option for Grandparents or Great Grandparents. Is this an option going forward, or even Other, and the user can type the appropriate …
Both, as it turns out — the specific one you asked for and the general one.
Grandparent of and grandchild of are now in the list, alongside parent, child, sibling and the rest.
And because you were right that we'll never have a list long enough, there's now "something else…" at the bottom of the connection types. Choose it and you get a box to write the connection in your own words — mentor of, rival of, old friend of, sworn to, whatever your world actually needs. Your wording is what shows on both characters' pages and on the graph, not a generic label.
Great-grandparent I deliberately didn't add as a fixed type, because that road has no end — great-great-, and so on. Write it in the box and it reads exactly as you typed it.
Shipped in v1.28.0Is there, or will there, be any options to allow someone to join you account, like a friend/supporter. They are can have reading access and features to comment on the work. I think of …
You can already, to a degree. If you head to 'Publish' and click on Reading Room, you can send your book specifically to someone to ask for feedback. They can leave comments on every paragraph. It is V1. I would love to know your thoughts as well as your collaborator. I wanted to get something out first (to prove the tech will actually work) and then iterate on top of it to make it better. Your advice would be greatly appreciated!
Shipped in v1.27.0Hello there, Firstly, this programme is a great asset to have. I signed up recently as a Alpha Tester not realizing the programme was already launched. But I have been playing around with it …
Resolved all in 1.28.0
Shipped in v1.28.0Allow to insert images in the content of the wiki, like images or charts or tables, etc.
Shipped, and it was closer than I realised when I first replied.
I told you images and tables inside the article text weren't supported. That was half wrong: the article had understood pictures and tables for a while — but only if you knew the syntax to type, and nothing anywhere told you that. A feature you can't find is a feature you don't have, so I'm counting that as my mistake rather than yours.
In 1.28.0 there's a "Put in a picture" button above the article. Click it, choose your image, and it's brought into your world's own folder and written in wherever your cursor was — as its own paragraph, so it never tears the sentence you were in the middle of. The hint beside it now also tells you that rows of pipe-separated cells make a table, which they always did.
So: images and tables in article bodies, both there, both reachable without knowing any syntax. Your one portrait image per entry is unchanged, sitting at the top as it always has.
Charts are still the open question, and I meant it when I asked. Timelines, relationships and statistics each pull in a completely different direction, and I'd rather build the one you'd actually use than a generic chart tool that does none of them well. If you get a minute, tell me what you'd want to chart — [email protected], or just here.
Shipped in v1.28.0I love being able to see the different sections of my manuscript, it really helps me stay organized. However, when I rename a section it sometimes gets added as a header in the proof. …
Update — the gap I described is now closed.
To recap what I said before: there were ways to get a clean artwork page, but none of them let you also give it a tidy name in the sidebar. That's what was missing, and it's what's now been built.
Every section has a Contents name. Type "Chapter One artwork" into it and that's what you see in the Contents pane while you work — and it is never printed. The page itself prints whatever its own title says, or nothing at all if you leave that empty. So you get the organised sidebar you wanted and a clean page, at the same time, in the same spot.
Also fixed in the same release, and related: an image page inserted between chapters used to be a dead grey placeholder you could only fill by dragging an asset onto it (which added a second block). Now you click the placeholder and choose the picture. That was the other half of what made this awkward.
Subsections are still on the list — not forgotten, just not this release.
Thanks again for such a clearly described case. "I want it in the sidebar but not in the book" is exactly the sentence that made the shape of this obvious.
Shipped in v1.28.0I was looking for this in Alhora: How do I keep headings from automatically being chapter names? What outcome would make this useful?
Following up on this one, because part of my earlier answer turned out to be wrong — and in your favour.
I said there was no way to stop Alhora promoting your Heading 1s into chapters on import. There was: it's a setting called "What starts a new chapter?" that sits next to the import button, with four choices — Auto, Heading 1, Heading 2 and Never. Never brings your manuscript in as a single chapter and leaves every heading as a heading.
What I got wrong is WHY you might not have found it working. In two places the setting was being quietly ignored: if you imported through the Quick Start wizard when creating a new book, and for every .odt file regardless of how you imported it. Both of those silently fell back to Auto. So depending on your route, you could have chosen Never and watched it split your book into chapters anyway.
Both are fixed in 1.28.0. The setting is now honoured on every import path and every format.
And the rest of my earlier answer still stands: if it's happening while you're writing in Alhora rather than on import, click the block, open Turn into, and choose Paragraph. If you want a heading that stays inside a chapter rather than starting a new one, use Heading 2 or Heading 3 — only Heading 1 carries chapter weight.
Sorry for pointing you at a control that wasn't reliably working. Thanks for asking the question that got it looked at.
Shipped in v1.28.0Since the app already produces a 3D mockup, it's be super helpful if we could download a (static) png, transparent version of it, so we could use it on promo posts etc, from any …
Done :)
Shipped in v1.27.0It would be more versatile to be able to set different fonts for the different headings, so we can make the most of font pairing.
Done :)
Shipped in v1.27.0I want to add a Subheading and Block Quote to the separate Chapter Pages, so when the reader turn, they then begin reading the story. I have tried to explore options, but I cannot …
Done :)
Shipped in v1.27.0Hey there, I noticed chapters with song or lyric headings have a big space underneigh it, so my chapter starts significanty lower than the ones that dont have it. Is there a way we …
Done :)
Shipped in v1.27.0Hi! is there anyway we can center certain front type paragraphs or page in general to start in the middle as well! :) my dedication is displayed at the top rather then middle page. …
This has now been added and classed as fixed :)
Shipped in v1.27.0How to use backlinks and tags in world building?
Happy to walk you through it!
Backlinks: while you're writing, type @ and pick a World page. That
creates the link, and from then on the page keeps a running list of
everywhere it's been mentioned — you can click straight through to the
passage. Nothing you link ever shows up in your PDF or EPUB; it's
private scaffolding.
Tags: open any World page and add them in the tag field. They're your
own filing system, so use whatever makes sense to you — #nobility,
#act-two, #needs-a-name. The reader view shows them under the title.
The nice part is you don't have to plan any of it. Link as you go and
the web builds itself.
Maybe there is a way to do this larady but I cant seem to find the contents page seperate so that it doesnt show up on my print file :)
Your instinct was right — it's already in there!
Open Print settings and you'll see a "Contents page" section with a
"Print a contents page" tick. Turn it off and it stays out of your
print file entirely.
Small thing worth knowing: Alhora only prints one for books with more
than three chapters, on the grounds that a three-chapter book doesn't
really need an index of itself.
It arrived in 1.24.0 and we never actually told anyone, which is on us.
Shipped in v1.24.0Hiii :) would love to have the option to center aligned the H1, H2, and H3 heading formats. I use mainly the H2 for my character POVs
Good news — this one already exists, it was just hiding from you!
In Style Studio, open your style and you'll find Heading 2 alignment
and Heading 3 alignment sitting alongside the chapter opener controls.
Set H2 to centred and every POV heading in the book follows.
And if you ever want just one heading to break ranks, select it in the
editor and the block's own alignment control will let you nudge that one
without touching the rest.
One tip: make the change on your own style rather than a built-in one,
so it stays put. Sorry it wasn't easier to find — noted.
would there be a way to see what we can do to minimize our file size, or see what is taking up space in the manuscript? or what would we change to lessen the …
Great suggestion, and shipped :)
Shipped in v1/25/0