A paper that leaves MojoPad finished. Journals increasingly ask authors for a ready-for-print PDF rather than a file somebody else lays out — which only helps if the app can produce the page the journal specified. Until now MojoPad offered two paper sizes, one margin for all four edges, and no say at all over type size. A reader whose journal prints at B5 could not produce his paper at any setting.
The trim is now whatever the guidelines say: B5, A5, and a Custom size you type in millimetres or inches, beside US Letter and A4. Margins take a side each, for a wider inside edge or a deeper foot, and the type size is yours to set. Choosing Custom starts from the size you were already on, so you only change what actually differs.
Two things were wrong in every PDF MojoPad has ever made. The body text was printing grey rather than black, and the page was inset further than the margin you asked for — request an inch and you got an inch and a sixth. Both are fixed — a paper set to one-inch margins now measures one inch exactly. If you have sent a PDF from MojoPad to anybody, it had both, and papers you compile now will not match older ones. If you need one to match a copy you have already sent, set Margins to A side each and enter 1.333 inches top and bottom, 1.167 left and right — that is what the old output really was.
The notes block a journal will accept. One reader typed the closing bracket into all fourteen of his footnotes by hand, in a word processor, after exporting — and typed the word “Endnotes” inside the first note, because nothing could sit above the block. Notes can now be numbered 1, 1), [1] or (1), under a heading in your own words, starting on a fresh page. The small back-arrows that help on screen are left out of the file you send.
Compiling stops asking. A paper is compiled after every session, and three times in the hour before it goes — and every one of those runs asked which folder, then which options, then where to save, to produce a file identical to the last but for its contents. File ▸ Compile Again (⌥⌘B) rewrites the same file, from the same folder, with the same options, and asks nothing. It refuses rather than guesses: a folder that has gone, or a file that has been moved or already sent, opens the full Compile and says why. The first compile now lists the folder holding the page you are on first, since the app already knew where you were.
- Links between your own sections work in Word now, not only in the PDF. In a compiled document they pointed at a place that was never created; in Export Document ▸ Word Folder they had been dropped to plain text altogether — the words survived and the connection did not, in a folder somebody might be sending to a publisher.
- A compiled paper leaves the automatic links out. Inside a wiki, every phrase that matches a page name lights up, which is how you find things. In a manuscript it turns a surname in your reference list into a hyperlink. The links you made yourself are untouched, and a checkbox puts the rest back for a compile meant to be read as a wiki.
- Publishing a wiki writes a Contents page. Every page was already being published, but only the ones you had posted were listed anywhere — so a wiki of clippings became fifteen finished pages with nothing linking to them, behind a home page that said nothing had been published. The Contents page lists every published page, grouped the way you filed it, and is linked from the top of every page.
- The Playground can use a model you provide. Its knowledge cards are written on your Mac, so a Mac without the memory for a capable model cannot make them better by any means — the one part of MojoPad where using it better did not help. If you have your own model set up, a second box in Settings ▸ AI lets the Playground use it: off unless you tick it, still asked per wiki, and billed by the provider — a rabbit hole is twenty cards in ten minutes. Every card now says which model wrote it, on the card itself.
- Web clips. A page whose menus, footer and cookie notice outweighed its article could arrive whole, opening with the cookie notice rather than the headline. Adverts sitting between the paragraphs are removed as well, and a code listing keeps the language it is written in. (Both found by readers who sent in pages that clipped badly — thank you.)
- The “Relates to” strip can be turned off. The pages MojoPad offers while you write are useful when you are weaving a note into what you already have, and an interruption when you are trying to finish a sentence. The ✕ on the strip only ever quieted it for one page until you quit; Settings ▸ Editing now has the switch that means never. (Reported by a reader who found it distracting — thank you.)
- A newer Kagi key works. If your key allows Search rather than the older Enrichment index, its results were arriving and being thrown away unread — thirty-eight of them in the case that found this. (Traced and reported by a subscriber who sent both raw responses side by side — thank you.)
- Folders can be reordered without a fine drag. Dragging a folder to the very top or bottom edge of another has always reordered it, but that band is a few pixels and everything else nests. Right-click a folder for Move Up and Move Down.
- The Draft and Writing panes no longer run their text against the edge of a floating panel.