Just a few things I though would be great for the preparation screens.
1: This is just a simple one, (I think...) but could we have a [SHIFT]+[Plus] increase the amount of the selected item by five, while just [Plus] adds one? This would make ordering a bunch of Ale or logs less tedious.
2: Can we have some kind of standing, negative selection for the new item screen? what I mean is, by adding "-leather" in the search bar, all items with "leather" do not appear; and in addition, after I select an item and return to the search screen, the "-leather" is still in the bar. Come to think of it, if the search bar did not clear when closed, that would be a treat by it's self. The whole point of this would be that it would seriously cut down on the amount of Gorilla leather socks I have to scroll through to get to my plump helmets.
3: I know that 7 is a perfect number for dwarves, but some like to have 1 dwarf fortresses, and some want 20 dwarf crews to start with. This is not a very serious question, but perhaps immigrants only start after, say 2 years, and that you have a total of 100 skill points you can assign. That seems more rational than having a dwarf cost his fair value which is probably less than that of a cow in the long term.
Anyway, Toady One, thanks for a great new version!