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by shmulik
Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:17 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Send as PDF/Word
Replies: 6
Views: 8301

Re: Send as PDF/Word

I find it a bit peculiar that you seem to be reviewing for Redlers my feature request, but fine. Now to send a Mellel file I have to do this: 1. File--Export as Word. 2. Switch to Mail 3. Find/Attach the .doc 4. find/delete the exported file the possibility I'm suggesting (and implemented in several...
by shmulik
Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:47 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Send as PDF/Word
Replies: 6
Views: 8301

Re: Send as PDF/Word

Certainly I have those options. But that's not what I'm requesting: I'm asking about the possibility of "sending as Xformat" similar to what LibreOffice, Nisus, and Pages offer (in slightly different implementations).
by shmulik
Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:53 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Send as PDF/Word
Replies: 6
Views: 8301

Send as PDF/Word

Mellel would be just a bit more awesome if it had the possibility to easily (without saving as) send documents as PDF/RTF/Word. This is a good feature that many word processors have. So perhaps it's hard, for some reason, to implement in Mellel. But please consider it. If anyone knows of a workaroun...
by shmulik
Sat May 21, 2011 3:17 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: The new Nisus Pro contains
Replies: 15
Views: 24369

Re: The new Nisus Pro contains

We already have track changes! And I really like its implementation in Mellel, personally. I can't see what else--from my perspective (professor in the humanities) the Nisus updates have to offer me. But certainly, many people will disagree, and I'm glad for that because Nisus is great. More and mor...
by shmulik
Thu May 19, 2011 1:36 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: (La)TeX export
Replies: 6
Views: 8369

Re: Feature request: (La)TeX export

I think someone made some kind of script for this long ago, no?

If not, just export to rtf, import in Open or Libre, export to LaTeX--haven't used that feature for a long time, but it used to work ok.
by shmulik
Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:57 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: 2.8 is great, but . . . . 2.9 wish list
Replies: 20
Views: 47674

Re: 2.8 is great, but . . . . 2.9 wish list

I second simifilm's requests: Zotero intergration and better multilingual spellchecking would be fantastic.
by shmulik
Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:43 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 2.7 around the corner...
Replies: 30
Views: 79668

Re: Mellel 2.7 around the corner...

Looking forward to the beta; when does it come out?
by shmulik
Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:48 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel/Bookends integration for old-style footnotes?
Replies: 2
Views: 3783

Re: Mellel/Bookends integration for old-style footnotes?

These are CMS footnotes (Chicago Manual of Style--but the footnotes kind, not the author-date kind). When preparing to scan the document, simply pick that style and you should be set. As for starting in the middle with Bookends, that's trickier. How many citations are we talking about? Depending on ...
by shmulik
Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:58 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Anybody any idea where we're going?
Replies: 25
Views: 38162

Re: Anybody any idea where we're going?

I just wanted to second the calls against paranoia and despair--there are many reasons for paranoia and despair, but Mellel's development is not one of them. As an earlier poster noted, Nisus's development is going much more slowly (and 2.6 was a pretty damn big jump!) than that of Mellel and I don'...
by shmulik
Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:53 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

Another way to think about it: It's the same as short title in CMS notes (that is, corresponding to widely held title designation conventions) , but in this case, the title only comes in when there is more than one work by the same author.
by shmulik
Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:42 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

@nicka: I see what you mean, but again, this was a simple, great style (for the humanities) in the olden days--the humanities used to use op cit. ibid. and so on, which are even more complicated to keep track of. @jda: the rule of thumb is that the format for the title in parenthesis corresponds pre...
by shmulik
Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:32 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

@nicka It seems to me that the style is the opposite of baroque. It is designed--I have the sense--for an age of typewriters so the writer didn't have to make a footnote. Unfortunately, this "simplicity" seems to be complicated to automate. @DanZac I think Bruce D'arcus, the creator of Cit...
by shmulik
Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:21 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

MLA is a simple style: Derrida says "blah blah" (56). Or: Many things have been said about blah blah (Derrida 56). This name refers to an entry in the Works Cited page: Derrida, Jacques. _Archive Fever_. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. Bookends can handle this just fine: you simply cite {de...
by shmulik
Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

Yes, I mean the latter: Zotero turns a footnote into an in-text citation. I have and did my diss with Bookends, and have tested Sente with every major update, so I know what they do-- the re-scan you mention. Not that it's a big deal, it would probably only take a few hours to cut and paste the refe...
by shmulik
Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:59 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Zotero integration
Replies: 19
Views: 26384

Re: Zotero integration

To correct the leap you make: open source is probably something like a necessary condition for the futurity of data, but not sufficient. Perhaps, however, these are matters of opinion--as is the question of whether citation management is too important to be relegated to the browser and whether this ...