The file list's "+ New" needs a typed name and seeds only '# <name>',
so every new chapter started from a blank header. Add a second button,
"+ New from template", that takes no name: it picks the first free
untitled-N.md (reusing a gap left by a deleted file), seeds it from a
configurable template, appends it to the manuscript order and selects it.
The template lives in config.json and is edited under Settings > New-file
template..., alongside the existing LanguageTool and Mistral dialogs.
Three placeholders expand at creation time: {{name}} (file stem),
{{marker}} (the configured draft marker, so a template keeps working if
the marker changes) and {{date}} (today's UTC date). Blanking the box
falls back to the built-in default, which seeds the header fields the app
already understands followed by the draft marker.
The date is computed with a local civil-from-days conversion rather than
a date crate, keeping the binary self-contained - ldd still shows only
libc/libgcc/libm.
"+ New" is unchanged; both paths now share insert_new_file. Covered by
13 new tests: placeholder expansion, untitled-N gap reuse, civil date
conversion against known dates, config.json written before this field
still deserializing (Config::load falls back to Default on a parse error,
which would otherwise discard the user's workspace and API keys), and a
round trip proving the seeded header parses back into Title/Slug/POV/goal
via the app's own preprocess::parse.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GBWj9TphFMCoh7VHaSRnvQ
New Tools ▸ "Generate plot beats (Mistral)…" command: pick a novel
proposal markdown file (characters + loose plot summary) and have the
Mistral chat API lay it out as plot beats in the classic three-act
structure. The result opens in a floating window where it can be edited,
saved as a new "<proposal> — beats.md" workspace file, or copied.
- src/mistral.rs: pure-Rust ureq/rustls POST to /v1/chat/completions
(self-contained; no C bindings). System prompt fixes the three-act
markdown shape; friendly API-error surfacing. Unit tests for content
parsing, empty/blank responses, error-message extraction, and the
missing-key guard.
- config: mistral_api_key / mistral_model / mistral_base_url with
effective-value helpers and defaults (mistral-large-latest,
https://api.mistral.ai).
- app: background generation + poll (editor stays responsive), a
Settings ▸ Mistral… window (key/model/base URL), and the results
window with save/copy.
- Docs: README "Plot beats (Mistral)" section and help cheatsheet note.
Verified: cargo build --release clean, 56 tests pass (+6 Mistral),
ldd still only libc/libgcc/libm. Clippy: no new warnings in the added
code (the two extra vs. the old 3-warning baseline are toolchain-surfaced
in pre-existing app.rs code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XDfaEsTgcn61n3wgP62DFF
Spelling is now checked live as you type, fully offline, using the
pure-Rust `spellbook` crate to read Hunspell .aff/.dic dictionaries (no C
libhunspell — the binary stays self-contained; ldd unchanged).
- Canadian (en-CA, default) and British (en-GB) English dictionaries are
compiled in; more languages are auto-discovered from system Hunspell
folders and ~/.config/md-manuscript/dictionaries/. A "Spelling" row in
the top bar toggles live checking and picks the dictionary.
- Misspellings are underlined in red; right-clicking a word opens a menu
of suggested corrections. A results-panel and one-click fixes work too.
- Checks run on a background thread, debounced ~400ms after the last edit.
Prose is extracted with pulldown-cmark so code spans, code blocks and
link targets are skipped; ALL-CAPS initialisms are ignored.
- LanguageTool still layers on top: when its results are fresh they own
the underlines (spelling + grammar); once you edit, the offline checker
resumes. The editor underlines, issues panel and fix-apply logic are
now shared between the two sources.
Bundled dictionaries are SCOWL-derived under a permissive license (kept
in dictionaries/<lang>/license). Adds spell-check unit tests (tokenizer,
code-block skipping, offset mapping, en-CA/en-GB spelling); 40 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N9kRuP7JvXoUGdNNeg5ZSs
The left file pane now boosts its widget text colours (toward white in dark
mode, black in light mode) so file names stay legible against the panel
background; the change is scoped to that panel only.
Add a "Contrast" slider beside Zoom that interpolates the editor text colour
from the theme default toward maximum contrast, persisted as
editor_text_contrast in the config. build_editor_job takes the computed colour
so underlined grammar/spelling runs match.
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Check the current file against a LanguageTool server (typically a local
instance) from a background thread. Issues are underlined in the editor
(red spelling, blue grammar) and listed in a bottom panel with one-click
fixes that re-align the remaining matches.
A menu bar (File / View / Settings) exposes a LanguageTool settings
dialog with discrete scheme / host / port / token / language fields, an
endpoint preview, and a Test connection button. Config stores the parts
and assembles the base URL. The token is sent as a bearer header.
Uses ureq with a statically-linked rustls backend, so both http and
https endpoints work with no new runtime library dependencies.
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A Zoom slider (with Reset) above the editor scales the monospace font
from -50% to +200%, defaulting to 0%. The editor keeps infinite desired
width inside a vertical-only scroll area, so text wraps to the pane at
any zoom with no horizontal scrolling. The zoom level persists in config.
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A "Zero-pad #" checkbox pads chapter titles that default to their
position number with leading zeros to a uniform width (the digit count
of the largest chapter number, e.g. 03. of 12). Padding never applies to
"# Title:" headers or manual overrides. The setting persists in config.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each file is now cleaned before conversion: HTML comments are removed
and everything above the configurable Draft marker (default
"### Rough Draft:") is dropped. A "# Title:" line becomes the chapter
heading and a "# Slug:" line becomes an italic caption beneath it.
- new preprocess module (strip_comments + header parse) with tests
- Chapter gains a slug rendered via a Chapter_20_Caption style, italic
at both paragraph-style and character-run level
- draft_marker config setting + top-bar field
- export title priority: override > # Title: > first # heading > filename
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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