v1.1.18

v1.1.18

[1.1.18] - 2026-09-05

New

• Quoted heading overrides ({^"term"} and [visible]{^"override"}) so standalone marks and custom index headings work without falling through to superscript
• Underscore emphasis in TextIndex headings renders as <em> in the index and sorts as plain text
• *** and ** wildcards** expand the preceding heading (stripping emphasis; ** also lowercases)
• Prefix wildcards (*^ / *^-) reuse an earlier matching heading path
• See and see-also cross-references (|target, |+target, hierarchical parent>"child") with see-type marks omitting locators
• Inbound cross-references (@ / @+) attach see/see-also refs onto the target entry
• Aliases (#name after a path, usable in headings and cross-refs) plus unreferenced aliases (##name) that define without a locator
• Hierarchical TextIndex paths ("Parent">"Child") as nested index entries
• --concordance FILE loads TextIndex concordance TSV files and auto-inserts [match]{^...} marks before index processing (enables indices; repeatable)
• Processing toggles ({^-} / {^+}) to leave TextIndex marks literal in selected regions

Improved

• Duplicate headings merge into one entry with multiple locators (TextIndex and mmark)
• Homebrew installs man pages (apex.1, apex-config.5, apex-plugins.7) from the release archive

Fixed

• [phrase]{^} strips square brackets from visible text while indexing the phrase
• Bare word{^} indexes only the adjacent word, not a multi-word run of preceding text
  [1.1.18]: https://github.com/ApexMarkdown/apex/releases/tag/v1.1.18