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- Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:01 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Mixed Hebrew and English
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4306
Re: Mixed Hebrew and English
Thank you , Janet! I considered it a triumph when I located the RtL option in the Character Attributes>Options menu; I had not noticed the Direction-Break Space item as well. I will admit to wishing there were just a <span> X </span> command I could invoke, but this is what I needed to learn. EDIT:...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:13 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Mixed Hebrew and English
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4306
Mixed Hebrew and English
I'm working on a text written primarily in English, but with occasional short passages in Hebrew. Switching directions works fine for simple prose (thank you, Mellel!), but it goes haywire whenever parentheses enter the picture. If, for instance, I need to type the sequence 580 (×–) [followed by a co...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:54 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Figuring Out Epubs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3297
Figuring Out Epubs
I am well pleased by version 5, and especially delighted with the export-to-epub option, which works more smoothly than any other such export with which I've worked. I've been having trouble, though, with what you might call casually-formatted text. I've produced a number of Mellel-to-PDF texts that...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:26 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: End of Chapter notes and bibliography
- Replies: 9
- Views: 22702
Re: End of Chapter notes and bibliography
Count me in. In fact, I'd settle for some way to interpose headers between sets of notes for distinct sections. Indeed, it's hard to imagine how one could look at a series of endnotes of a document divided by sections, see endnote 315 immediately followed by endnote 1 with no explanation, and not se...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:15 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
The latest version of Cheap Impostor, http://www.cheapimpostor.com/, seems to resolve this problem simply and powerfully.
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:23 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Thank you, palazzo; that's exactly where our conversation began. We can certainly print pages two-up through the print dialogue box, but this approach entails certain drawbacks -- either needing to construct awkwardly-shaped pages of enlarged text on US-ian 8.5 x 11 pages, or needing to construct ha...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:59 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Thanks for the pointer, Obeid, although it looks as though BookLightning imposes the pages, whereas I would just like the pages laid out consecutively, side by side.
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:35 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Janet, Thanks! I was aware, in some obscure recess of my memory, that this would work -- though I feel grouchy about having to construct a page layout that I don't actually want to use as-is. It's probably more complicated for US paper, since our page size doesn't divide elegantly and evenly into ha...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:45 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Janet, thank you for your time and advice. I have been worrying this problem partly because it involves (as you say) real-world production matters -- but those are relatively insignificant, since I print mostly materials for academic purposes, where nobody expects anything other than Times New Roman...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:02 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Excellent! Now, to clarify: Had you produced a two-up PDF from Mellel (via Print menu) that you then printed directly from Graphic Converter with the settings you describe, or did you produce a single-page PDF from Mellel, which you then made two-up via the print command from GC? (I've been trying v...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:41 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Janet, Thanks for your trouble. I remain utterly mystified, though; I follow your steps precisely ( mutatis mutandis , US Letter) and I get the same reduced-size results as ever. Mind you, the PDF itself looks all right (a little smallish when I open it in Preview), but when I print it, the page are...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:26 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
I spent some time this morning fiddling with "printer margins" and the scaling; neither seems to make a decisive difference. So far.
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:23 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Ugh, OK. Document Setup (File Menu): Facing Pages, .5" Top, .75" right, 1" bottom, .75" left Page Setup (File Menu): User-Defined paper size, 5.5" x 8.5" portrait orientation Then when printing, I choose the "Layout" option of two-up pringint, side by side. Pr...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:14 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21509
Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
I just tried printing through Graphic Converter, and it does the same thing I've described; it adds a band of margin around the (half-)page it lines up for the PDF. Likewise Mellel -- so I'm inclined to think that there's an Apple routine in there somewhere. NeoOffice generates a correct PDF, but at...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:13 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Wishlist 2008
- Replies: 62
- Views: 197177
Re: Wishlist 2008
My one request (well, it's easy to limit it to one, since others have covered many other desiderata): Column headers/footers and numbering (similar to page numbering), so that layouts where a column functionally represents a page can be headed, footed (?), and numbered accordingly. In other words, i...