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by ochsenmeier
Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:36 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 2.2 rediscovers the freedom to cite, enhances charact
Replies: 21
Views: 19704

Thank you for the update. BUT… can you give us any hint about indexing and xref ? This is a whole lot more crucial to me than some of the new features. I have been waiting for 2.2 to transfer long documents written in Framemaker Win. Without indexing and xref, Mellel is a nice note taking tool but s...
by ochsenmeier
Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:44 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Should I use Mellel to Write a Book?
Replies: 12
Views: 15498

Boban, Rest assured, I am not writing in InDesign. I write the text in RTF, mostly in Mellel (or Word if I have to switch computer), then I place the whole text in InDesign and go from there. I agree with the positive reviews of the outline and long document capabilities of Mellel, so much better th...
by ochsenmeier
Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:08 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Should I use Mellel to Write a Book?
Replies: 12
Views: 15498

As I said, it all depends on what you want to do. If you want to write a text with music scores, I would use Latex since it does it beautifully and easily. As far as loading packages in Latex, it pretty much does it for you and you only do it once. If you need serious indexing, Mellel will not do it...
by ochsenmeier
Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:45 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Should I use Mellel to Write a Book?
Replies: 12
Views: 15498

If you write about music, I would definitely consider switching to LaTeX. It has packages to write music scores quite painlessly. The bibliography can be handled by BibTeX. CUP uses Latex for some of its publications and Cambridge University has lots of resources for LaTeX at http://www-h.eng.cam.ac...
by ochsenmeier
Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:53 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Importing RTF/Word documents containing Hebrew & Greek
Replies: 3
Views: 5270

Are all the fonts garbage or just Heb. Greek? If so, it all depends on the fonts used in the original file. You need to make sure you have the fonts on your Mac too. Ideally your instructor should use Unicode fonts. That's probably all it is. Otherwise import the files in Mellel (File Import). If th...
by ochsenmeier
Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:53 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: All caps in Mellel
Replies: 4
Views: 7362

Ok, if I can get that (plus cross-referencing and indexing, and DT) I'll be happier.
Erwin
by ochsenmeier
Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: All caps in Mellel
Replies: 4
Views: 7362

I find the lack of Change Case feature (irrespective of the Small Caps or All Caps difference) extremely annoying. I have a whole page of text of text that some University asked to be in all caps to change by copy-paste into OpenOffice back to Mellel. Such basic feature should be present in a word p...
by ochsenmeier
Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:03 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: DEVONthink and Mellel
Replies: 16
Views: 22268

Devon Think

Integration with DT would definitely be a major attraction to switch to Mellel. I have been testing Mellel and DT. I will adopt DT but probably would not adopt Mellel long term and not advise it to my students were it not to integrate will DT.
Erwin