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by signinstranger
Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:52 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: 2.8 is great, but . . . . 2.9 wish list
Replies: 20
Views: 47563

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

Great update, but...

...the Small Caps Open Type feature still ignores uppercase characters. How long have we been discussing this? :D
by signinstranger
Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:36 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: Footnotes that can have their own footnotes
Replies: 3
Views: 8736

Re: Feature request: Footnotes that can have their own footnotes

This is not exactly what the other users have asked for. The second footnote is still a regular reference to the main text. :)
by signinstranger
Sun Aug 29, 2010 1:34 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: (Large and) Small OpenType Caps
Replies: 6
Views: 11229

Re: (Large and) Small OpenType Caps

nicka wrote:Surely this is the kind of thing that could be coded in an afternoon and put in a quick point release. But we've been asking nicely and waiting -- for years. It's infuriating.
Amen to that.
by signinstranger
Sat Aug 07, 2010 4:33 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: The state of the Mellel (a road map of sorts)
Replies: 67
Views: 502466

Re: The state of the Mellel (a road map of sorts)

Another long-standing request: Please add auto-titles to the replace styles dialog. One can easily have more than 100 sections in a Ph.D. Are we supposed to add the missing auto-titles by hand?
by signinstranger
Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:27 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Any plans to add ebook formats ePub, mobi, etc.?
Replies: 11
Views: 30433

Re: Any plans to add ebook formats ePub, mobi, etc.?

Here's my personal workflow for epub files based on MultiMarkdown and Sigil. I use my own Mellel2MMD to convert Mellel documents to MultiMarkdown . MMD is a command-line-tool to create XHTML, LaTeX and RTF files from plain text files with structural markup. The XHTML files can be opened with Sigil a...
by signinstranger
Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:58 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 2.7 around the corner...
Replies: 30
Views: 79494

Re: Mellel 2.7 around the corner...

While at it, we have introduced many improvements in other areas. For example, auto-titles can now be entered anywhere -- not just at the beginning of a paragraph. There are other nice improvements there (including some of the most wanted on our improvements list). If you can still find the time fo...
by signinstranger
Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:13 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Good news from Apple!
Replies: 3
Views: 8266

Re: Good news from Apple!

catanalotes wrote:Indeed it will be interesting to see, in light of this news, how an application such as Pages will handle Hebrew.
Isn't the text engine in Pages different from the cocoa text system? I doubt that an upgrade to Mac OS 10.6 would fix this issue. :(
by signinstranger
Tue May 05, 2009 6:48 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Anybody any idea where we're going?
Replies: 25
Views: 38076

Re: Anybody any idea where we're going?

Ori Redler wrote:Flowing text around images means (specific details of implementation may vary): flowing text around images, flowing text around text boxes, and so on. Other things (like marginalia) will need to wait until we get indexing and versioning/comment tools in place.

Redler's best press release ever! :D
by signinstranger
Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:26 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Wishlist for version 2.7
Replies: 28
Views: 62601

Re: Wishlist for version 2.7

I don't remember anyone asking for this, but Auto-titles in the "Replace Styles" dialog would be a really useful feature to have.
by signinstranger
Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:36 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Default printer not remembered?
Replies: 9
Views: 13394

Re: Default printer not remembered?

verma wrote:There's some shareware out there that can make an attempt, I'm not sure how successful it turns out to be.
http://www.symonds.id.au/marcopolo/
by signinstranger
Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:25 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel has problems with Dropbox?
Replies: 3
Views: 6995

Re: Mellel has problems with Dropbox?

Here's a thread from the Scrivener Forum that deals with this particular problem. I'm still not sure if I should put my stuff back on Dropbox, or not. :?
by signinstranger
Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:23 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: .mellel -> html
Replies: 23
Views: 28495

Re: .mellel -> html

Australia Day
Ah...that explains why the local amateur theatre group here has put on a production featuring an AC/DC cover band. :twisted:
by signinstranger
Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:00 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: how to get correct modern fractions
Replies: 4
Views: 7921

Re: how to get correct modern fractions

jannuss wrote:Beyond that I suspect you're going to have to use one of the mathematical equation apps.
Some OpenType fonts support arbitrary fractions:
fractions.png