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2.12.2

December/10/2025

New:

MarkMyWords now adopts the new window design in macOS 26
New toolbar icons for macOS 15 and macOS 26 that match the system’s look & feel

Improvements:

Improved the command for the action “Move cursor to end of paragraph with line break”
Fixed several layout inaccuracies in the sidebar and its elements
TextButler: when creating a new recipe in the settings, it is now automatically selected
TextButler – new ingredients: Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Basic HTML Entity Encoding and Decoding

Fixes:

Fixed an issue where inserting markup via shortcut without selected text caused Undo to not fully restore the previous state
Fixed an issue with showing/hiding the format bar
Minor UI adjustments to correctly align certain elements under specific display configurations
Fixed an issue when importing CSV files for generating MultiMarkdown tables when no table alignment was provided
Fixed an issue when importing CSV files for generating MultiMarkdown tables where the presence of a header separator and missing aligners caused improperly aligned formatting

Internal Markup Parser:
Smark:

Improved handling of bold, underline, and strikethrough markups

2.12.1

October/24/2025

Changes:

New app icon to comply with the macOS26 app icon shape

Improvements:

Various internal adjustments and improvements to enhance compatibility with newer macOS versions
Minor adjustments when exporting to PDF format (macOS 11 or newer) to avoid a blank first page and improve line spacing in text
Improvement to the footnote tool so that the corresponding changes are visible in the preview after insertion
Improvements when inserting markups. Markups for links and images that work with multiple elements now analyze the selected text in detail and automatically place the selected text in the appropriate area of the markup
Completely redesigned internal storage logic for QuickSave directories, eliminating some existing issues when working with them

Removed:

Display of external links in the individual results of the text check for articles that explain the respective error in more detail

Internal Markup Parser
MultiMarkdown:

Meta variable case sensitivity is now ignored
Improvements to TOC generation, which is now enclosed by the corresponding div tag

MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra:

Improvements in recognizing footnotes at the end of the text

Markdown, MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra:

Minor improvements in handling paragraphs
Improved underscore markups, which now require a leading and trailing space
Escaping of opening and closing square brackets is now possible

Smark:

Various optimizations in Table of Contents generation

2.12.0

August/11/2025

New:

TextButler System. TextButler allows you to compile your own sets of text transformations that can be applied to selected text or text pasted from the clipboard. The following actions are available:
- Trimming spaces and custom-defined characters in a variety of ways
Removing empty lines
Replacing and removing words
Inserting into a template
Searching and replacing using regular expressions
Actions can also be combined in recipes and adapted for different use cases.
TextButler can be managed in the settings in the TextButler section
In the editor, TextButler can be applied using the following menu items or the corresponding keyboard shortcuts
- Edit - Insert with TextButler
- Edit - Apply TextButler to selection

Footnote tool for MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra. This tool helps you quickly create footnotes. It can be accessed via the menu entry Markup ➤ Footnote, the footnote button in the content editing toolbar, or by pressing F1 on the keyboard (fn + F1 if system control functions are enabled). After entering the footnote text, the original markup is automatically inserted at the current cursor position, and the footnote text is added to the end of the document.

Improvements:

Improved detection and handling of files in shared Quicksave folders regarding the display of images in the preview.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue with syntax highlighting and Illusion format for Markdown, MarkdownExtra, and MultiMarkdown for bold and italic elements, which could under certain circumstances lead to incorrect rendering.
Added missing detection of image markup in Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown, and Smark for syntax highlighting.

Internal Markup Parser
MultiMarkdown:

Support for metadata syntax
Metadata area is now recognized and no longer appears in the preview
Metadata is integrated into the HTML header
Support for the special attributes Title, Language, CSS, HTML Header, HTML Footer, MMD Header, and MMD Footer
- Support for metadata variables ([%meta_tag_name])

MultiMarkdown & MarkdownExtra:

Parser for definition lists completely rewritten to fix some bugs and issues in the previous implementation
Fixes a bug with footnotes: when multiple source references pointed to the same footnote, assignment errors occurred

2.11.3

New:

new option for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra: Magic Double Space. This feature adds two spaces to the end of the last line when a line break occurs. If there are two line breaks, the two spaces of the last line will be removed again
Markers in texts that are inserted via copy&paste: The first marker is automatically selected after pasting
new trick for importing CSV tables in MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra. If the second line contains alignment elements(:~~- , :~~-:,
:), MarkMyWords recognizes them and adjusts the imported table accordingly

Improvements:

improved the template save panel. In addition, the user interface of the panel has been revised
Template selection panel is updated after adding a new template even when documents are open
user interface of the Template Insert panel has been revised
improvement when inserting text clips with markers. The selection marker {*} is now converted correctly
check text area, highlighting an error by clicking on the corresponding entry, it is now possible to click again to trigger the highlighting again
improved copy and paste behavior of the text editor with activated option “Paste formatted”. Source code and plain text copied from web browsers are now better recognized
improvements to the display of the individual elements in the sidebar for the text clips area
improved the behavior of the editor when using the move-cursor keyboard shortcuts
minor adjustments to the Markup templates for image and link for the Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown languages. Fields two and three are now preset with markers, which allows faster editing of the respective markups

Updated:

updated some pages in the help

Bug fixes:

fixes a display error in the settings for the editor
fixes a bug in Distraction-Free mode that caused fonts (color, size, style) to be set incorrectly under certain settings
fixes a problem with the editor when syntax coloring is active, the text is longer than the actual text field and other certain settings are present, which caused the editor to behave strangely when scrolling
fixes a bug with the style display dotted and dashed in the text check
fixes an inaccuracy in the counting of characters in the formatted text
text check error coloring and syntax coloring no longer get in each other's way
fixes a bug with cursor customization in certain text type, size and cursor settings that caused the cursor to not have the desired appearance
fixes an error when setting the options for line numbering in the preferences
fixes a bug with tab actions (text clips) that contain markers that markers are not resolved correctly
fixes a bug that prevented RTFD files from being able to be selectable in the import selection window under certain circumstances
fixes a bug when importing RTFD documents with images in Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown documents
fixes a bug when importing text documents in which headline markup was also provided with bold markup
fixes a bug in conjunction with Markers in the markup languages Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown with the italic markup

Internal Markup Parser:

improved handling of commented out text in Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown

2.11.2

New:

select marker via Tab key, if the insertion point is in a line containing a marker, pressing the Tab key is now sufficient to select it
new settings option for visual highlighting of double spaces at the end of a line (can be set under Settings > Editor > Highlighting)
the import function can now also be used to insert plain text files into existing documents

Improvements:

import from clipboard refined, fewer unnecessary spaces
Illusion Format / Syntax Highlighting Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown improved recognition of formatted links
added supporting error messages and signal images in the default settings for the file extensions for the respective Markup languages
improvements when setting the background color of the text field

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug in the text editor that led to display errors under certain circumstances
Illusion Format Smark: fixes a bug in the display of named links

Other:

many internal changes and adjustments to improve compatibility with newer macOS versions
various internal optimizations
various areas of the help updated and expanded

Internal Markup Parser:
Markdown, MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra:

improved handling of HTML comments
improved handling of headings, spaces and tab characters following the closing # are now handled correctly
improved timing when handling escaped chars, so that fewer incorrect conversions occur
minor adjustments when creating the paragraph tag

MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra:

improved recognition of tables at the end of a text, the obligatory empty line at the end of a table is no longer mandatory
improved display of captions in tables, which now correspond to what the original MultiMarkdown generates
captions with an additional label are now supported

MultiMarkdown:

masked line breaks (escaped newline) are now supported, a \ at the end of a line generates a br tag

Smark:

images with file extension jpeg are now recognized
improvements for correct conversion of caption, tablehead and tablefoot markup
Tablebody markup implemented
HTML entities conversion removed

2.11.1

Changes:

Marker selection keyboard shortcuts changed

Improvements:

improved behavior of Illusion Format under certain circumstances when moving the cursor with the arrow keys
import of documents, if images can be imported, they are added to the assets (the corresponding document must already be saved)
improved import of documents and insertions from the clipboard regarding superfluous spaces
Bug fixes:
Fixes a bug with Textbundle files with the markup language MarkdownExtra

Syntax highlighting:

Smark: Link detection improved if the link is directly followed by a line break
Smark: Comment highlight is now recognized correctly

Internal markup parser:

Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown: improved recognition for correct bold and inverse in both variants
Smark: improved link recognition
Smark: various minor internal improvements

2.11.0

New:

Illusion Format: This feature for the main editor can be activated in the MarkMyWords preferences under Editor > Highlight. This feature causes the most important and most frequently used markups to be displayed directly in the editor. This feature is available for all markup languages except HTML. Comprehensive information on this feature can be found in the MarkMyWords help.
Syntax highlighting: Syntax highlighting has been completely reworked and replaces the old system. In addition to improved and extended recognition of markups, the new highlighting also works better with the set editor options so that the layout no longer gets out of shape.

Bug fixes:

Fixes a potential crash of the app when running MultiMarkdown if certain conditions are met
Fixes a bug that caused MarkMyWords to crash when certain preference combinations related to line numbering were used
Addresses a display error in the editor in newer macOS versions that causes “ghost text” to appear at the bottom under certain conditions

Internal markup parser
Textile:

Improved recognition of bold (both types), italic (both types), underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript markup and their encapsulated variants
Styles in {} e.g. in spans and other elements are now recognized and converted

MultiMarkdown:

Support for superscript and subscript text
Minor adjustment of the display order for footnotes and bibliography so that they are consistent with the original MultiMarkdown
Bibliography markup conversion completely rewritten to better match the original MultiMarkdown

BBCode:

Extended support for uppercase tags
Other minor internal improvements

Smark:

Small font markup implemented
Various internal adjustments and improvements
Fixes minor conversion errors of thead and tfoot with styles
Fixes a bug in list detection where certain text sequences were incorrectly recognized as a list

2.10.2

Bug fixes:

addresses a bug that causes text artifacts to appear in the text field under certain circumstances with customized settings

2.10.1

New:

the text of simple PDF files can now also be imported via the Import file option. PDFs with a non-linear layout may result in text shifts
new output format for extensions: Pasteboard. The result of the extension will be added to the pasteboard
markup formatting can now be applied to several selections in the text at the same time. To select several areas in the text at once, the CMD key must be held down while using the mouse to select the passages to be formatted
new preference option for the text editor: if text from web pages is inserted into the text field via drag'n drop or copy/paste, a markup conversion can be performed automatically. This option can be activated in the preferences under Editor

Improvements:

improves the correct display of line numbering
improved behavior for file name changes in the File Navigator panel
improved the behavior when creating and closing indented alphanumeric lists
if no asset is selected in the asset pane and the "Show in Finder" action is activated, the corresponding directory is now displayed if one exists
various internal improvements, optimizations and updates

Updated:

help for extensions extended

Bug fixes:

fixes minor bugs with the display of assets in text and adding assets via drag'n drop when images contain spaces in the name
fixes a bug that caused the asset not to be added when adding assets to an entry under certain circumstances

2.10.0

New:

new option for the text editor to perform a double line break after headings. This function can be activated in the MarkMyWords preferences under Typography
readability rating: for English and German texts, the readability rating of the current text can be viewed in the info pane
Javascript extensions: option to include additional Javascript files in the respective extensions, e.g. function libraries

Improvements:

improvement of the date insert function in conjunction with undo action
improved sentence counting of the text statistics in the info pane
improved word counting of the text statistics in the info pane
improved markup removal action, most special characters are retained in their original form
improved behavior when canceling the insertion of text clips under certain circumstances
various internal optimizations, improvements and updates

Internal markup parser:
MultiMarkdown new:

support for abbreviations (acronyms) [MMD v6 syntax]

2.9.0

Note:
MarkMyWords requires at least macOS 10.13 or newer as of this version

New:

Javascript extensions: Extensions can now also be written in Javascript to extend the functionality of MarkMyWords. Details on extensions for MarkMyWords can be found in the MarkMyWords help section under "Extensions". In addition to developer documentation, you will also find various tips for setting up extensions.
Tab Action Convert numbers into words. Write a number, e.g. 111 and press the Tab key to convert the number to "one hundred eleven".
Services menu item: This function can be used to send selected text from any application to MarkMyWords, which opens the selected text in a new document. More details and helpful tips on how to use this function can be found in the MarkMyWords Help under "Service-Feature".
New function for Check Text-Feature: Learn errors. Errors can now be saved so that they are automatically corrected during future text checks.

Improvements:

Improved behavior of the marker selection function
Minor adjustments and improvements when importing documents to achieve a better import result
Improvements when setting up your own PHP interpreter
PHP extensions can now also be used when the internal markup interpreter is used for text conversion
Various internal modernizations

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug that caused MarkMyWords to crash when closing documents with a color label set
fixes a bug in the display of the text editor that led to unwanted effects at the bottom of the text field in newer versions of macOS

Changes:

the keyboard shortcuts for Marker selection had to be changed, as the previous ones are occupied by the system in newer macOS versions
Extension system: in newer versions of macOS (12 or higher), the Python language is no longer available for selection. For the Perl and Ruby languages a corresponding installation must be available on the system

Markup parser:
Smark bug fixes:

fixes a bug in the transformation of span, div, para and code tags with additional attributes if these markers are followed by a line break
fixes a bug in the conversion of lists that contain sublists

MultiMarkdown bug fixes:

when converting the {{TOC}} markup, incorrect compilations occurred under certain circumstances

Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown bug fixes:

fixes a bug in the handling of code blocks where markup was converted within the code block

2.8.1

New:

new, additional option for the internal markup parser to create HTML5 compliant markup tags on empty elements (img, br, hr)

Improvements:

preferences for setting up the MultiMarkdown tool adapted to meet the new requirements
minor internal adjustments

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug with the LanguageTool.org text check, if there was an & character in the text, only the text up to this character was checked
fixes a bug for some languages when automatically generating markup when dragging images from the attachment bar into the text

Internal Markup Parser
Improvements:
Textile:

improvements in the handling of attributes for block elements

MultiMarkdown:

adjusted display for footnotes, they are now displayed superscripted and without brackets
adjusted display for citations, which correspond to the current MultiMarkdown representation

Bug fixes:
MultiMarkdown:

fixes a bug when using the citation markup, which causes the app to crash under certain circumstances

Textile:

fixes a bug when using markup attributes that causes the app to crash under certain circumstances
fixes a bug with the conversion of citation markup that led to incorrect display under certain conditions

2.8.0

New:

new system for formatted printing and exporting as PDF, including corresponding presets, implemented (requires macOS 11.0 or newer)

Improvements:

improved import of text documents, so that less excess spaces and blank lines are generated
improved appearance behavior of the CriticMarkup popover feature under certain circumstances
improvements in text statistics
improvement in behavior when using text clips when selection is canceled by ESC key

Bug Fixes:

fixes a bug when rendering a document in an external browser that caused embedded images not to be displayed

2.7.0

New:

MarkMyWords now supports the spelling and grammar checker of LanguageTool.org. This can be activated and used via the ribbon bar in the preview area
new CriticMarkup inline tool for convenient marking of selected text. Activation via the menu option Markup > Inline CriticMarkup (⌃P)

Bug fixes:

fixed a bug in the CSS selection menu that opened the wrong window in the preferences when selecting the "Add CSS Style" element

General improvements:

MultiMarkdown, when a custom parser should be activated, the internal parser, when activated, caused a conflict. So, instead of using the custom parser, the internal parser was used. For MultiMarkdown it is now the case that the custom parser always has always priority over the other options

MultiMarkdown improvements:

{{TOC}} markup for generating a table of contents is now supported, as well the {{TOC:2-3}} and {{TOC:3}} extended variants

Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown enhancements:

heading tags with additional attributes are no longer enclosed by p tags

Textile improvements:

additional markup for IDs and classes can now also be provided to inline markup
CAPS detection improved, possible CAPS within HTML tags (attributes) are no longer incorrectly converted
table. markup is now also supported
improved processing of attributes for block markup
fixes a bug with the padding-right attribute in block markup

Smark bug fixes:

fixes a problem where under certain circumstances some special elements are stripped out and do not give a correct result
fixes a problem with the code tag that caused it not to render properly

2.6.0

New:

new option in Preferences under Typography to enable/disable automatic continuation of alphanumeric lists
new option in Appearance Preferences to set a custom window color
new option in Appearance Preferences to assign a different color to button images
new option in the Preferences for the Distraction Free Mode, with which scrolling can also be triggered outside the actual text field

Improvements:

improved unindent behavior by the delete key in unordered lists (* -)
redesigned layout for the Typography Preferences
redesigned layout for the Editor Preferences
redesigned layout for the Distraction Free Mode Preferences
some minor layout improvements for the document window
several internal improvements and adjustments
the internal Markdown, MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown Parser can now also escape the pipe character (|) with \|
the internal MultiMarkdown parser can convert the [Caption element] for tables at the end of a table

Bug fixes:

fixes an error in the automatic alpha list creation of the editor, caused by certain character combinations which resulted in inability to continue typing
resolves an error in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, where in certain tables formats all elements were formatted as headers
fixes a bug in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, where an additional empty column is incorrectly added for certain tables
fixes a bug in the internal MarkdownExtra and MultiMarkdown parser, with colspan-formatting

2.5.1

Improvements:

JSON info file of existing Textbundle documents remain intact after changes and is no longer overwritten by a new info.json
improved behavior of HTML preview after inserting text via copy/paste
improvements when adding assets via drag'n drop
improvements for Highlight Mode in Distraction Free Mode
internal Textile parser: attributes can now be added to caption, head and foot elements for tables

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug that could cause the app to crash when deleting assets
fixes a bug in the internal markup parser for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and MarkdownExtra that can cause MarkMyWords to hang or to stop displaying formatted output when using tab characters in numbered lists
internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that prevented headings from being written across multiple lines
internal Textile parser: fixes a bug that caused br-tags to be generated in table structures under certain circumstances
internal Textile parser: fixes an error when converting tables that could cause the conversion to abort
internal Smark parser: fixes an issue with anchor links
fixes a bug in distraction-free mode that prevented writing when highlighting was enabled and no custom font color was set

2.5.0

New:

new feature that simplifies the correction of misspelled words and allows suggested corrections via keyboard shortcuts. This function can be activated in the preferences under the item Typography. More details about this function can be found in the help
new highlight mode in Distraction Free Mode that highlights the current line you are typing on against the rest of the text. Adjustable via Distraction Free Mode presets.

Improvements:

if a Textbundle-file contains other elements than the usual text file, the info.json and the assets folder, these elements are preserved
improved behavior of MarkMyWords handling the access of Quicksave folder
animated sidebar collapse and expand and start and end of Distraction Free Mode. If you don't want animations, you can turn them off in the MarkMyWords preferences under "Reduce Interface Animations"

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug for the internal Textile parser that can cause the application to crash
fixes a bug when opening Textbundle-files where, under certain circumstances, the Markup language specified in the json file is not set

2.4.0

New:

new internal markup interpreter with improvements for all Markup languages supported by MarkMyWords
new preference options in the Typography section to adjust the system-wide text settings for "Automatically replace two spaces with periods" and "Automatically capitalize words after a period" in MarkMyWords

Improvements:

some cosmetic adjustments in the preferences
enabling and disabling syntax coloring in the preferences now shows immediate effect in the editor
updated and improved syntax coloring for Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown, BBCode, Smark. To use the updated coloring-files, the syntax coloring must be reset in the preferences

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug in preferences navigation that could lead to an internal error
fixes a bug in the display of the window title in the preferences
Textile: fixes incorrect link markup template generated by the shortcut-command

2.3.1

Improvements:

when exporting documents the currently selected style will be used for the exported document

2.3.0

New:

redesigned distraction-free mode. The settings for this mode can now all be made directly in this mode. In addition, many other settings have been added for this mode in order to be able to customize it to your own requirements

Improvements:

improvements in the automatic text scrolling function, which now no longer scrolls the beginning of a text if it is already longer, but only when the cursor is in the vertical center of the text field
Various minor adjustments to the user interface

2.2.0

New:

new default setting for using your own PHP interpreter
keyboard shortcut to change the panes in the sidebar (CTRL+Tab)

Updated:

updated converter for Wikitext, Smark, BBCode, MarkdownExtra to work with PHP version 8
updated Markdown converter

Improvements:

minor improvements in the navigation in the preferences

Bug fixes:

Swift markup interpreter can be activated in macOS Big Sur or later in the preferences

2.1.0

New:

MarkMyWords now natively supports Apple Silicon-processors
adjustable toolbar style in macOS Big Sur

Improvements:

various internal adjustments and updates
some user interface changes for macOS Big Sur
improved behavior when opening documents with self-defined file extensions (Preferences > Markup > File Extensions)

Bug fixes:

fixes a bug in the text statistics

2.0.0

initial release