Writing
Help and feedback
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Changelog
New ways to write, design, and export a book.
2026
Languages
Ruby and right-to-left punctuation
Ruby imported from an Aozora manuscript stays with the characters it annotates. In Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian, punctuation sits with the line.
Design
Faster chapter previews
Moving through a chapter in the print preview takes less time, and the type uses the weights you set in the theme.
Writing
Update notice
If Folius updates while a book is open, a notice offers to reload. You can dismiss it and keep writing.
Writing
Word export
Download the manuscript as a Word document when someone else needs to read it or mark it up. The export screen starts by asking which file you want.
Print
Pictures across a spread
A picture can run across both pages of a print spread. The ebook keeps a single image.
Design
New themes
Gallery, Hollow, Quarto, Noir, Signal, and Almanac join the theme list, with more typefaces to set them in.
- An accent colour and a muted colour in the theme
- Letter-spacing on headings
Writing
Footnotes and endnotes from Word
Notes in a Word manuscript come in with the chapters, and you can edit footnotes and endnotes together in the book.
Languages
Vertical Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese books can run in columns, from the contents page through the chapters.
- Footnotes, tables, and pictures follow the columns
- Ruby sits beside the characters it marks
- The same direction is in the print file, the ebook, and the web edition
Languages
Book languages
Fonts, line breaks, and chapter labels follow the language of the manuscript.
- Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian run right to left, and the pages turn that way
- Japanese, Chinese, and Korean can run across the line
- Chapter labels use the book’s own words
Design
Contents page styles
Choose how the contents page looks, and whether chapter or section numbers appear.
Design
Chapter heading images
Place an image with the chapter title, and choose a different one for a single chapter when that opening should differ.
Design
Garamontio
Garamontio joins the book typefaces, and the font list is easier to scan.
Writing
Quotes, verse, tables, and callouts
Featured quotations, verse, tables, and callouts are their own blocks, and they take their style from the theme.
Ebook
Paged ebook preview
Preview the ebook as pages on a device. Drop caps, covers, captions, and chapter ornaments hold up in Kindle and Apple Books.
Sharing
Membership for print, pictures, and sharing
Writing, EPUB, Markdown, and a backup stay available without membership. Membership adds print and screen PDF, hosted images, an editor on the book, and a public reading link.
Writing
Writing without an account
Open a book and write straight away. Create an account when you want that book to stay yours.
Print
Custom bleed
Set the bleed amount, and choose which edges of the print page include it.
Writing
Manuscript import
Folius suggests where the chapters fall in a Word file. Correct the splits, bring the pictures in with the text, and add the book when the outline looks right.
Writing
Copyright page
Publication details stay with the manuscript, including a copyright page. Choose the publication date from a calendar.
Print
Image placement
Crop a picture without changing the file, give it a caption, and choose its place on the page.
- In the text, beside the text, or on its own page
- At the top or bottom of a print page
- Alt text for the picture
Print
Paragraph page breaks
A heading stays with the text that follows. Justified lines can hang their punctuation, and a short last line stays with its paragraph.
Writing
Chapter history
Chapter history shows the difference between versions, so you can return to an earlier draft and see what moved.
Design
Themes, drop caps, and ornaments
Pick a theme for the whole book, then adjust the type, the chapter opening, small caps, a drop cap, and the ornament between scenes.
Ebook
HTML, Markdown, and backup
Download a web edition, a Markdown manuscript, or a Folius backup, alongside EPUB and PDF.
Sharing
Collaboration
Invite an editor to the same manuscript. You can see each other’s cursor, and the contents stay in step when either of you renames or reorders a chapter.
Print
KDP print checks
Before you download a print PDF, Folius checks the page count, the margins, the trim, the bleed, and the safe area.
Writing
Book statistics
See the word count, the chapter count, and the print-page count while you write.
Writing
Sample books
Read a typeset sample, then start a manuscript of your own or continue from the sample.
Writing
Footnotes
Add a note in the chapter. On the print page it sits at the foot. In the ebook it stays with the chapter.
Print
Print PDF with trim and crop marks
Download a PDF/X-3 file with the trim size, bleed, crop marks, and margins you set. Earlier downloads stay available.
Print
Headers and footers
Put the book title, chapter title, author, or page number at the top or bottom of the print page.
Print
Trim size
Set the print size of the book and see that size in the preview.
Design
Custom themes
Start from a theme, then change the type, the spacing, and the chapter opening for this book alone.
2025
Design
Print preview
See the typeset page while you write, and turn through the chapter without leaving the editor.
Writing
Front matter, body, and back matter
Divide the book into front matter, the body, and back matter. Add a contents page, and drag chapters into the section where they belong.
Print
Headings stay with the text
A heading will not sit alone at the bottom of a page, and a paragraph will not leave a single word on the last line.
Writing
Word import and Classic style
Import a Word file, keep the scene breaks, and set the book in an indented classic style.
2024
Writing
Split chapters
Divide a chapter at the cursor. The next heading becomes the title of the new chapter.