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by JFM
Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:58 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: French typography : automatic no-break before ? ; : !
Replies: 14
Views: 34780

Re: French typography : automatic no-break before ? ; : !

Indeed, it would be nice to have the option with a narrow non-break space. I am French-speaking too: in the meantime, when I want to have the space, I use the spacebar + option key. However, I think this creates a normal space, and not a narrow one. For getting a narrow one, I had created my own com...
by JFM
Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:52 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: 3.0 Wish List
Replies: 63
Views: 197233

Re: 3.0 Wish List

DylanMuir wrote:I would add the old evergreen suggestion of tying captions and figures together
I do strongly second that! That was my only reason for not writing a recent 140 page long report with Mellel - instead, I had to do with Pages, and suffered!
by JFM
Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:19 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

Many thanks to everybody who contributed! Help was much appreciated! I want to provide an update, although you will see that it proved to be a quite unexpected end. Over the days I communicated on the forum regarding that, I made many tests and attempts, all unsuccessful. Three days after receiving ...
by JFM
Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:38 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

I've read this entire thread and it sounds like your problem is application specific (Mellel is the only problem). That is, it sounds like your other apps are working fine, is that so? If so, that would seem to eliminate your hard drive as the culprit. One thing I noticed is that you didn't mention...
by JFM
Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:33 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

I'm relieved to hear that the files aren't corrupted, and since you have a workaround available [copying & recopying them to and from the iMac], your immediate problem is solved. Now, to address the why . . . There's another recent thread in this forum complaining about Mellel crashes -- his pr...
by JFM
Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:04 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

and for the first time I wonder if I shouldn't think twice, especially since a document saved in Mellel format cannot be opened using another application Actually, Mellel files are now stored in XML format, so (theoretically at least) they can be read by other applications. Maybe we should take a l...
by JFM
Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:59 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

Could this problem be font related? I only have very little time right now, so I only took a brief glance at this thread. Perhaps you can check if your fonts are validating in Fontbook and you could also try and copy the working fonts from you iMac to you problematic machine… and try some other fon...
by JFM
Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:29 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

That problem seems to be a tricky one. Maybe you could do some more tests (after having cloned your iBook drive). First, you could try to open one of the problematic documents with Mellel on your iMac and save the very same text into a new document (save as…). Then try to open this file on your iBo...
by JFM
Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:48 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

Try renaming the problematic files and moving them to another folder. I have attempted to do that, but it does not change anything: I can rename and move to another place files which don't open, but it does not help. Maybe one additional information: if I attempt to open a file in the older .mell f...
by JFM
Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:30 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

Whenever I've had problems like these, they turned out to be disk problems -- usually hardware. Thank you, Janet, it is true that I had not considered that possibility: I will right now clone my iBook, just in case, in order to have all the files safe and accessible if there is a crash. I do a comp...
by JFM
Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:21 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Re: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

Thank you for that good idea, I have made an attempt, but unfortunately it is not the root of the problem: permissions and ownership are correct. Of course, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Mellel on my iBook, but it has not solved the problem. Actually, it is getting still stranger: out of a few ...
by JFM
Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:34 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!
Replies: 22
Views: 20077

Mellel documents not opening... with Tiger on iBook!

I have been using Mellel as one of my word processors for the past three years. Always stable - until now. Today, as I attempt to open Mellel documents on my iBook G4, running Tiger, version 10.4.11 (yes, latest version of Mellel, permissions repaired, running Onyx regularly), I am just unable to op...