Second Release Candidate Anneimation Writer is a plain text editor made specifically for writing fanfics, screenplays, blog pieces, and stories. It's designed to write text files in [Fountain](https://fountain.io/) or [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/) format, so that they can be rendered out into any format you need, such as PDF or HTML. The editor is based on [*Visual Studio: Code*](https://code.visualstudio.com/) (VS:C), with the majority of the built in programming extensions stripped. The editor and the included writing extensions are modified to fix problems, add features, and work better together. It also makes it one easy, convenient package to download instead of installing and patching everything by hand. If you're a programmer who uses VS:C, having this as a separate app can also help you, because you don't need to load all these writing extensions and have them running in the background of your programming projects and vice versa. It can save you some CPU cycles, RAM, and battery. This release of Anneimation Writer is based on VS:C 1.61.2, with the following modifications: **Additions:** - The plugin [*Better Fountain*](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=piersdeseilligny.betterfountain), version 1.8.9 - this colour codes Fountain screenplay files, allows a live preview of the rendered document, and exporting it as a PDF - The plugin [*LTEX*](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=valentjn.vscode-ltex), version 12.2.0 - this does offline grammar and spell checking in Markdown and Fountain files - The plugin [*vscode-pdf*](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tomoki1207.pdf), version 1.1.0 - this allows the editor to open PDF files **Changes:** - VS:C: [branding changes](https://git.anneimation.com/anne/editor/src/tag/1.0.0-RC1/patches/vscode/product.json) were applied to make it its own app. Because of this, Anneimation Writer uses its own folders separate from Visual Studio: Code, so they can be used side by side without issue - VS:C: the built in copy of FFmpeg (a video and audio decoding/encoding library) is replaced with the normal Electron version, which makes it capable of playing H.264 video and AAC audio in the editor - LTEX plugin: it will now spell and grammar check Fountain files by default - LTEX plugin: on Apple Silicon Macs, the built in Intel OpenJDK 11 build is replaced with an Apple Silicon [Azul Zulu JDK 11](https://www.azul.com/downloads/?version=java-11-lts&os=macos&architecture=arm-64-bit&package=jdk) build (11.0.13+8). This change means that Anneimation Writer will not engage Rosetta 2 while editing documents, improving performance and battery life **Removals:** - A [number of programming focused extensions](https://git.anneimation.com/anne/editor/src/tag/1.0.0-RC1/build.sh#L15) were removed - Add a video playing extension to allow referencing episode files, video based storyboards, etc. while writing - Replace the app icon with something distinct - [macOS (Intel)](https://cdn.anneimation.com/software/anneimation-writer/v1.0.0-rc1/anneimation-writer-mac-x64.zip) - [macOS (Apple Silicon)](https://cdn.anneimation.com/software/anneimation-writer/v1.0.0-rc1/anneimation-writer-mac-arm64.zip)