Release Notes
Blockpad 0.9.2090 (2018-11-02)
Highlights of this release
- Multiline text cells (Note that whether in a spreadsheet or any other table, multiline text cells act like "word processing" cells, and they can contain any other objects, just like in any report.)
- Go to Reference command
- Math layout now supports arrays, matrices, and if statements
- Table ranges as matrices
- GoalSeek function
- For attempted addition and subtraction of incompatible units, result is now shown with "unknown" unit as a warning. For example,
200 lbf + 150 lbf/ft = 350 ?
. - Complex numbers
- For addition and subtraction combining feet and inches, result unit now shows in combined ft-in units. For example,
6 ft - 6 in = 5 ft 6 in
. - Improvements to Plot objects, with new PlotPoints, PlotLines, and PlotFunction functions
- Strikethrough formatting option
- Superscript and subscript formatting options in regular text
- Bulleted lists
- Numbered list, with multi-level outline numbering
- Center and right alignment for paragraphs
- Steel shapes data table
- Support for copy and pasting more image formats
- Linear regression
- Misc usability improvements and bug fixes
Notes and known issues
- Inside multiline text cells, up and down keys do not always behave as expected
- Page up / down / home / end keys do not always behave as expected
- Occasionally while navigating between frames, the window may appear blank. This can be fixed by scrolling in any direction.
- Several paragraph properties are provided as placeholders, but they do not yet affect document layout (namely, First Line, Keep Lines Together, Keep with Next, Line Height, Page Break After, Page Break Before, Spacing After, Spacing Before, and Widow and Orphan Control)
Upcoming features
- Merging and splitting table and spreadsheet cells
- Drawing labels for angle measurements
- Drawing circles and arcs
- In 2d drawings, Bring to Front and Send to Back tools
- Internal links within Blockpad files
- Tool to embed external references into file
- Equation solving for non-linear equations
- Saving Blockpad files as Word documents, and reopening them with formulas intact