- Read aloud reads Japanese instead of announcing it. Handed a Japanese character, an English voice does not mispronounce it — your Mac falls back to reading out the words “Japanese character”, once per character, so 研究 was announced twice rather than read. A sentence is now read in stretches, one per script, each by a voice that can pronounce it: the English in your chosen voice, the Japanese in a Japanese one, and on it goes. The place-marker, the progress count and a book’s page-turning still work in whole sentences, so nothing else changes. On a Mac with a Japanese voice installed, a second picker appears beside the first — automatic (which keeps the same person where macOS ships them in both languages), any installed voice by name, or Don’t switch, which reads everything with one voice exactly as before. (From a reader writing bilingual papers — thank you.)
- A page of Japanese is no longer zero words. The word count looked for runs of Latin letters and nothing else, so a page written in Japanese counted as empty — and a compiled paper was reported as zero words long. Scripts that put spaces between words are counted in words, scripts that do not are counted in characters, and the two are added. That is also the arithmetic those languages’ own publishers use, where a length limit is quoted in characters.
- The buttons say what they do. MojoPad has its own tooltip — quick, styled, and kept on the screen — but it had been wired to three bars, and every other row of small glyph buttons fell back to the system’s, which waits about a second of stillness and gives up the moment your hand moves to the next button. That is exactly how a hand reads a row of glyphs, and it ended with a reader emailing to ask what one of ours does. It now covers the whole window: the bar that appears when you select words, the split pane, the journal’s mood and energy rows, the canvas menu, the peek window, the task detail header, the AI drawer. Links keep the system’s own, since what a link’s tooltip holds is a web address.
- A split-view button on the page itself. ◫ at the top-right of the page you are reading opens something beside it. The one in the toolbar stays — that one is about the window, this one is about the page, and it is the one you reach for without leaving what you are writing. (From a reader — thank you.)
- The panel toggles moved to the ends. Pages on the far left of the top strip, Palettes on the far right — the edge each one acts on, rather than somewhere in a row of glyphs. It holds however you have arranged the toolbar; if you keep either in the left rail instead, it stays where you put it. (From a reader — thank you.)
- The split view can open ready to write in. Settings ▸ Two pages at once. For anyone whose work is two documents at once, the pane opening read-only was a click every single time. A PDF, a book or a locked page can only ever be read, so those still open as a reading pane. (From a reader — thank you.)
- A compiled paper leaves the wiki’s own links behind. Auto-links are a reading affordance inside a wiki: every phrase matching a page name lights up. Carried into a manuscript they became underlined text pointing at pages that are not in the file — in the prose, inside quotations, and inside the reference list, where an author’s name that matches a page turned a citation into a dead link. Compiling to Markdown had always stripped them; PDF and Word had not, and those are the two a paper goes out as.
- A diagram that cannot hold Japanese says so. A TikZ diagram with a Japanese label showed
Package inputenc Error: Unicode character ^^e7^^b5^^82— which is 終. Its drawing engine only accepts the Latin alphabet, so the diagram does not come out as boxes, it does not come out at all. It now says that plainly, and points at Mermaid, which sets Japanese correctly.
The tooltips for the buttons are a big help. Thank you!
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