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Working with text

Add, split, merge, delete, undo

In the app: Writing

Add

What How
A scene after the selected one ⇧⌘N, the + button when hovering a scene, + Scene at the bottom of the navigator
A scene at the start of a chapter + when hovering the chapter heading
A chapter after the current one ⌥⌘N, + Chapter at the bottom of the navigator, chapter menu → “New Chapter After”
A part ⇧⌥⌘N, + Part at the bottom of the navigator, chapter menu → “New Part Before”

A new chapter or part prompts you for a title right away.

Split and merge

  • Split a scene — place the cursor where the new scene should begin and press ⌥⌘D or the scissors at the top of the editor. The text after the cursor becomes a new scene ”… (continued)”.
  • Merge — scene menu → “Merge with Next”, or the button next to the scissors. The next scene’s text is appended to the end and its comments are kept. Only scenes in the same chapter can be merged.
  • Reorder — ⌥⌘↑ / ⌥⌘↓ or the scene menu; at a boundary the scene moves into the neighbouring chapter.

Delete

  • A scene — scene menu → “Delete Scene”, or ⌫ when a scene is selected and the cursor is not in the text.
  • A chapter or part with its scenes — chapter menu … → “Delete Chapter with Scenes”.
  • An empty part heading — menu → “Delete Heading”.

Undo

Any structural change — adding, deleting, splitting, merging, reordering, renaming from the menu, changing the type — can be undone: ⌥⌘Z, the Undo button in the pop-up message, or the Edit menu. Undo works step by step, up to 50 steps, while the book is open.

Deletion is protected twice. Before deleting a scene or chapter that contains text, Norwid saves a safety version of the book — you can find it in the history in Editing, even after restarting the app. ⌘Z undoes text edits inside a scene, ⌥⌘Z undoes structural changes.