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Add character import from other novel titles

Open ihanttxo opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

I wish there was a feature to import characters from other novel titles. useful for those of us who are creating our own novel universe. thank you

ihanttxo avatar Oct 02 '24 06:10 ihanttxo

You can already do this by the following process:

  • In the manuscript build tool, assemble all your character documents into a single novelWriter-formatted document
  • In your other project, create a new document under characters and open it
  • Import the text from the exported document into the new document (in the Document menu)
  • Split the document again by its headers, say on level one if each character doc has a level one header at the top

You should then have all your individual character documents back.

This process will be simplified with the features to be added in #1001 (no need for using the manuscript tool), but the import and split part will be the same. This is a general solution that works for any text in the project.

vkbo avatar Oct 02 '24 07:10 vkbo

Alternatively, if you're writing a trilogy, say, you can add all three novels as separate novel root folders in the same project and share the notes between them.

vkbo avatar Oct 02 '24 10:10 vkbo