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by Vincent
Fri May 16, 2008 9:54 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: TOC format question
Replies: 4
Views: 3824

Re: TOC format question

OK, I finally figured it out. I had to place both a reverse tab and a decimal tab right where the red circle is. Thanks for pointing me to the right place, Janet!

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by Vincent
Thu May 15, 2008 6:29 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: TOC format question
Replies: 4
Views: 3824

Re: TOC format question

Thanks, Janet, but I still can't get it to look right. Picture 1 shows the way I set it up in title-flows, arguably with a few too many tabs, but set to 'reverse tab' and a dotted tab lead. Picture 2 shows the way it looks in the document, which is still uneven. http://img.skitch.com/20080515-8dna36...
by Vincent
Thu May 15, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: TOC format question
Replies: 4
Views: 3824

TOC format question

Is something like the picture below possible in Mellel? What I'm mostly thinking about is the dotted lines and then the page number on the right. I can't seem to align the page-numbers all the same way, rather it looks something like this (messy): 1 main title..............p. 1 1.1 Introduction........
by Vincent
Thu May 15, 2008 2:39 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: mass-applying a style to all footnotes?
Replies: 2
Views: 3238

Re: mass-applying a style to all footnotes?

That worked perfectly, Petrus, thanks!
by Vincent
Thu May 15, 2008 1:48 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: mass-applying a style to all footnotes?
Replies: 2
Views: 3238

mass-applying a style to all footnotes?

Hi, some of my footnote-styles are out of whack, probably because I copied my references from the body into the footnotes. Is there anyway to select only the footnotes and apply a style, or something else that works, without losing the citation-format that many of them contain? Sorry, I can't explai...
by Vincent
Mon May 12, 2008 6:01 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

Re: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

Hey, that's great Nicka, thanks! I found four more repeated words, which Word's spell-checker and my proof-read missed!

I guess this sort of nullifies my request, though I still think that Mellel should have the same basic features that other Leopard apps have at their disposal.
by Vincent
Mon May 12, 2008 2:54 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

Re: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

OK, maybe I'm doing something wrong. My search-box now looks like this, but doesn't seem to work.

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by Vincent
Mon May 12, 2008 12:16 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

Re: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that. But, if I understand it your, very technical, explanation correctly, you still have to enter the word to search for?
by Vincent
Mon May 12, 2008 8:56 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

Re: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

Guys, with all due respect, I don't want to pay for a feature that already comes with a product that I paid for: Leopard. In addition to this, I think it's a safe bet that this core-feature will be included in all third-party word-processors sooner or later, making it a feature that people base part...
by Vincent
Sun May 11, 2008 11:02 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

Re: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

@petrus: it's built into Leopard, which runs fine on my G4, Textedit is as fast as ever, and you can turn it off, so how is it bloat? I'm not asking the Redlers to build anything new here… And even a proof-read can miss small things like to to and the the , nor is it, frankly, what I want to be proo...
by Vincent
Sun May 11, 2008 8:29 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A simple reason why grammar-check is needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16895

A simple reason why grammar-check is needed

You ever write a 100+ document in Mellel, exported it to rtf, ran it through Word's grammar-checker, and found out that in various sleepless nights you managed to to write double-words like like this this one? I did, about 10 times. Not only did I have to run it through Word's moronic grammar-checke...
by Vincent
Thu May 08, 2008 5:45 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Formatting issue after citation scan
Replies: 6
Views: 5092

Re: Formatting issue after citation scan

Hey, that worked! I had to check the format-manager in Bookends as brackets had indeed been specified. Wish these settings wouldn't be so obscurely hidden.

Thanks suavito!
by Vincent
Thu May 08, 2008 2:10 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Formatting issue after citation scan
Replies: 6
Views: 5092

Re: Manual citation + page number?

Another question! After scanning the document and having Bookends+Mellel both create the bibliography and replace the temporary citations, it seems to place every citation in between brackets. This would be fine, if I were to use in-text citations, however I placed them in the footnotes and it looks...
by Vincent
Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:55 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Formatting issue after citation scan
Replies: 6
Views: 5092

Re: Manual citation + page number?

OK, thanks, I think I sort of got it. I'll be going through a couple of 100 pages now and do this. If I got anymore problems, I'll be back!

Thanks again!
Vincent
by Vincent
Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:52 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Formatting issue after citation scan
Replies: 6
Views: 5092

Formatting issue after citation scan

See fourth post below for the problem This problem has been solved! ********************** Hi, I saw in the manual, that you can add the page-number variable to a citation, by using the '@' symbol. Doing that doesn't seem to work however. Also, I don't get any #id-number assigned, as is shown in the...