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New find bar and floating find window

The old find box on the toolbar is gone. The toolbar now has a single search button, and it or Ctrl + F opens a compact, Chrome-style find bar with a search box, an “n / m” match counter, previous/next buttons, a Match Case toggle and a close button. A pin button turns the bar into a floating window you can move and resize. That window lists every match with a highlighted text snippet and its page number. Click a result, or use the arrow keys, to jump to it. Your choice of bar or window is remembered (SearchUIFloating, SearchUIWindowPos) (#4092). The tooltips show keyboard shortcuts, and Sumatra no longer beeps when a search wraps around the document.

Read Aloud playback bar, Stop and auto-scroll

While Read Aloud is speaking, a playback bar on the page shows the document name, the current page and what is being read, with Pause and Stop buttons. Stop Reading (CmdStopReadAloud) is also in the Read Aloud menus. The view scrolls to follow the spoken word. It stops following if you scroll away. Read Aloud is also on the page’s right-click menu, where Start Reading From Cursor Position starts at the word you clicked. Voices are in a Voice submenu, and the chosen voice is remembered in the ReadAloudVoiceId setting.

SyncTeX with LaTeX compiled in WSL

Forward and inverse search now work for documents compiled inside WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This covers files on the WSL file system (\\wsl.localhost\...) and files on a Windows drive compiled from WSL (/mnt/c/...) (#5702).