New features in JWM v5.9
- various enhancements to the Kanji Safari game.
- the automatic detection of the Japanese text format has been improved. JWM now first tests if pasted text is in the selected clipboard format before testing for other formats. It also uses various new strategies to detect the Japanese text format when loading files. This reduces possible detection errors.
- the button bar graphics on the Text, Browse and Help dialogs have been enhanced using a 3D metal style.
- Speedkeys and a new button bar for the most commonly used HTML tags has been added to the Text dialog. This vastly speeds up tag entry and editing of multilingual web pages.
- Some entities for special symbols are now interpreted by the browser, allowing such characters as '<' and '>' to be embedded in web pages. These entities can be entered by control-clicking characters on tables on the Input dialog. Characters which support this feature are shown in blue.
- a 'Help split' command has been added to the Windows menu. This arranges the Text and Help dialogs on the screen to make it easy to work through tutorials and view help whilst using the wordprocessor.
- when creating a new text file, a blank HTML page or blank document can be created.
- when maximizing dialogs, the dialog size has been tweaked to better fill the screen.
- when creating a new text file, the appropriate extension is automatically added to the file name. Thus, when a new HTML page is created, it is given a '.htm' extension. When a new document is opened, it is given an extension based on the file save format set in JWM.
- in the Windows version, the core has been updated. This enhances and fixes a range of operating system level issues.