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by lyndondrake
Wed May 29, 2019 9:49 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Bookends: Exclude authors and title parameter
Replies: 4
Views: 5851

Re: Bookends: Exclude authors and title parameter

Suppressing the author using a - doesn't work for me in Mellel (4.1.5r1). The Mellel manual (p. 105) says that a % character should be used, but that doesn't work either. Neither do the Bookends-specific options of & or ^.

Any suggestions?
by lyndondrake
Wed May 29, 2019 9:47 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: writing direction
Replies: 5
Views: 10672

Re: writing direction

Here's a strange thing on writing direction: if I set a writing direction as part of a paragraph style, it has no effect. It only seems to work from the paragraph Attributes tab.
by lyndondrake
Tue May 28, 2019 8:01 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: OpenType stylistic alternate sets
Replies: 2
Views: 12648

Re: OpenType stylistic alternate sets

Hope it's ok to resurrect this old thread. Any possibility this might get added to Mellel? As Apple have added full OpenType support to the standard text view, Mellel now feels a bit deprived on this front (of course, it's a million times better in lots of other ways!)
by lyndondrake
Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:25 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font
Replies: 9
Views: 11813

Re: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font

BTW I'd agree that the font was the problem — if it didn't work correctly in InDesign.

But it *does* work correctly in InDesign (and in fact in other software too), which is what pushes me towards thinking it's a Mellel issue, at least in part.
by lyndondrake
Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:24 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font
Replies: 9
Views: 11813

Re: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font

Thanks, I really appreciate your help with this. At the very least it confirms that it's not just me seeing it, which is always a worry. I'll drop the support email a note, and will update the thread if I hear anything back.
by lyndondrake
Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:42 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font
Replies: 9
Views: 11813

Re: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font

I think there might some confusion here between the OpenType container format and OpenType features (it's the latter that I think is vital for Hebrew type and what the Culmus fonts support), but it's encouraging that it works for you and gives me hope that I can get it working too! If you're happy t...
by lyndondrake
Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:02 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font
Replies: 9
Views: 11813

Re: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font

Hi Jannus, Thanks for your response, but I'm not convinced (yet :-). The fonts do use OpenType layout, or at least the authors claim to. In fact, I'm not aware that it would be possible to use them in InDesign without OpenType support. And as far as I know, Pages, InDesign and the other Mac OS apps ...
by lyndondrake
Tue Oct 18, 2016 3:05 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font
Replies: 9
Views: 11813

Hebrew cantillation mark problem with Taamey David font

Hi, I've been using the Taamey David font, one of a set of free fonts released by the Culmus Project http://culmus.sourceforge.net/taamim/ It has support for vowel pointing and cantillation marks. This works fine in most applications, such as Apple Pages and InDesign, but strangely enough Mellel can...
by lyndondrake
Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:11 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: OpenType stylistic alternate sets
Replies: 2
Views: 12648

OpenType stylistic alternate sets

Hi,

Some fonts have multiple stylistic alternate sets. An example is Hypatia Sans Pro, which has many of them. For these fonts, the simple checkmark menu item Mellel provides is insufficient — it needs to list the available sets and allow the user to choose which of the sets to apply.

Cheers,
Lyndon