iA Writer 5.3

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

• Workflow: Note – Write – Edit – Read. Each stage has a task-specific typeface and color.
• Syntax Control scans the syntax of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish text and highlights your adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions or conjunctions.
• Precision Writing Tools:
• Auto Markdown formats text on-screen — your hands stay on the keyboard
• Syntax Control introduces syntactic markup for natural language text. It covers English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Patent pending.
• Convert Markdown to Microsoft Word 2007 .docx, and back again

Features

• Workflow states
• Custom typefaces, carefully set for optimal readability
• In-app preview
• Reading time, plus sentence, word, and character count
• Real-time iCloud sync
• Ready for Retina displays
• Full-screen

What’s New in iA Writer 5.3

iA Writer 5.3 is a companion release to our big update for iOS 13 and iPadOS 13.

# Updated File Keyboard Shortcuts

• Simpler and consistent with iOS and iPadOS
• CommandN creates a new file in current window
• ShiftCommandN creates a new file in a new window
• Return opens a Quick Search result in current window
• ShiftReturn opens a Quick Search result in a new window

# Content Blocks with Relative Paths

• `../Note.txt` will include a file from the parent folder

# Handoff Improvements

• Handoff now works when both devices have a Library Location with the same name
• Files are handed off using Library paths: `/Locations/GitHub/Readme.md`
• Requires iA Writer 5.3 on both devices

# Other Improvements

• Links to local images are now converted as file URLs
• Fixed link import from Word
• Fixed gif export to Word
• Changed `write` URL command with `mode=append` to create a file if it doesn’t exist
• App activates for new documents created using Dock menu
• Double-click Smart Folders in Organizer to edit rules (as in Mail)

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