add character import from other novel titles

[ihanttxo]

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

[vkbo]

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]

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.